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So I got this RAM in August 2025, for ~$400 according to the receipt:
…That is absolutely bonkers.
I fucking had to keep pushing back buying some more RAM. Yeah, that was a great move. Now I can only hope the bubble bursts and prices crash.
I mean, I get by fine with the RAM I have. I don't need much. It's the principle of the thing, you know? Sometimes being financially responsible and careful sucks.
I dont... I am absolutely stressing the DDR3 I have. But no way I am going to pay 500% for some memory!
If my workstation goes up in value in 4 years, something is seriously going.
The only rational choice right now is to wait to buy new ram.
Either production capacity catches up and this amount of silicon is the new normal and prices come down or the ai bubble does crash and prices come down.
It can’t go on at this price point forever.
I wonder if the fed gov cares that entire sectors of the tech economy are being threatened by one (AI).
On the plus side, all the game companies are going to finally start optimizing games and quit pushing out more and more demanding shit. A big win for smaller devs and creative\fun game developers too. My steam deck and old PC gonna keep on winning.
What do you expect? Few will be able to afford to play their whizbang-5000 games. We already saw it play out with VR.
You might be right. But charging them $15 a month to stream their whizbang-5000 games is still an option. Especially for Microsoft and Sony. (And Amazon wants in on that too.)
Do I want more memory or do I wait for two years...
I wait for two years. As long as the existing memory modules doesn't break, Linux will continue to be happy with existing amount.
If you are on windows, good luck.
I built a PC for work (I'm going to take it with me when I leave) and I bought used adata ram (2x32gb) with a lifetime warranty on it. I immediately needed to send one of the sticks for warranty. I bought the initial set of ram in May, and yesterday I paid roughly the same for a used set of 2x16gb. The price of the 32gb sticks is prohibitively expensive now. I'm betting the price only goes up, just wish I would be at 128gb rather than 96gb.
We could have been so rich if we could have seen the future. Just buy tons of memory modules at low prices five years ago and sell them now. What a profit.
Its not like memory tech has changed so much either.
If you could see the future, buying nvda a few years ago would have done the trick.
I would just feel like such a piece of shit scalping though.
And suddenly me "unjustifiably" buying 128gb of DDR5 was a good investment of money.
Only if you actually use that much. You almost certainly don’t.
introducing: ramdisk
I do.
I wish I had 192GB, to be honest.
I paid $350 for a similar kit back in October. Same kit selling at the same place is 4k...
sell 64gb of it today and pay for your entire PC build, plus a new (used) car.
Yeah, I splurged on some hardware upgrades with great shame almost 2 years ago because I was preparing for the idiotic tariffs, expecting modest price increases.
I did not expect a 5x. So glad that I did it. It would no longer be an option.
I kick myself every day for putting off replacing this 2017 build of mine.. My 1080 weeps.
I built a new PC around that time for the same reason. I am kicking myself for not getting more ram.
I did not ever think PC prices would go as crazy as they are now.
but I thank my fucking asscheeks every day that I upgraded my CPU, GPU and RAM right before the shit hit the fan just by pure luck and coincidence.
I still wish I had a better GPU, I had to settle for the one I got cause finances.. but I sure as fuck aint getting anything better for a reasonable price at this rate.
AI bubble will burst.
Does not mean prices will drop though.
I mean, today I saw a chocolate company ad saying no AI was needed. For chocolate. Anti-AI in a chocolate ad.
If Sees Candy is getting in on AI hate to sell shit, obviously people are tired of this crap. The bubble will burst.
And people who have an issue with this are called luddites
Absolute clown show
They confuse us with legitimate technophobes.
My stepmother was a technophobe. She read articles about school shootings in the US, and thought if I got addicted to video games like Quake, I'll be buying a machine gun from the black market, then end up as a murderer. Yes, she also had a moral panic about drug use, all while she was a borderline alcoholic. The farce in it was that while I wasn't allowed to play any Quake games, there was no harm in Unreal games, which arguably are better. The tragedy in it was that she tried her best to steer me away from computers, giving me some disadvantage in college, also she lied to the doctors about my first seizure to make it seem like it was due to the computer, which lead to the doctors not doing tests besides EEG and strobe lights. Once social media rolled out, she somewhat changed her mind on the subject, though she was still ignorant enough to think "software developer" and "CNC programmer" are the same, and almost got me a job at a local factory (she feared that if I lived on Budapest for a bit longer, I'd get some lung disease, because big city equals bad air).
Quake isn't as good as Unreal? Blasphemy!
Kid me had a lot of fun in those games.
Let me guess, she's an avid social media user nowadays?
She's dead, and I don't know how to feel about it, especially as she abused my brother even harder than me.
They say you should only speak good about the dead.
She's dead. Good.
Yeah apparently you'd think there be some closure or something but it seems that's not how it works. Keep in there, and try to forget about the whole ordeal, that's what I'm trying anyways, living with my demons. Works. Cheers.
We've been told historical lies. People who have an issue with this are like Luddites, but that's because the Luddites were justified too!
They weren't against technology; they were against it being used to abuse and exploit them as workers.
