RIP GabeCube 😢
Man I’m so tired of these skyrocketing prices over everything. Memory, GPUs, car parts, groceries, insurance… fuck. Eating us alive.
Boy am I happy I built my PC with 64 GB of DDR5 earlier this year. 😬
Hi totally not a mad max fallout style raider just spreading this fun new game: on the count of three let’s both say where our pcs are
At those prices I will just remember things myself, thank you.
Meat ram making a comeback.
Yeah, pencil and paper is back!
Did we try tariffing them?
Did my upgrade back in April. Got 64GB for $240. Now I checked the price on the same kit… $700. Just crazy.
People are panicking but market will correct itself. RAM is basically a solved technology and supply is limited by lack of factories not ability to manufacture.
Fabs take like 5 years to spin up. No one is going to set up another without some kind of guarantee
On the other hand, we’re currently in the midst of what many people already consider to be an AI bubble, so investing in new DRAM factories might be considered too risky, since the bubble might have popped before it even gets production going.
Good point tho if the bubble does end up popping it’ll bring down ram price as the market will be flooded with hardware from closed/reduced farms. But I guess we’ll have bigger issues preventing us enjoying the discounts lol
Pop goes the bubble
A PS5 currently costs less than £300. I can’t even get 32GB of RAM for that, let alone a GPU or any of the other parts.
PC gaming is dead for now. The only affordable way is Steam Decks and similar.
Damn I’m sitting on 16gb of 7000mhz ram, I need to list it
Dang, 16GB of RAM is barely enough these days! I feel you though. Maybe you can list it and get some cash for that expensive upgrade.
In moments like this I always wonder if I should temporarily make my PC unusable by reselling the component that’s overpriced.
Then wait out the shortage and buy 4x as much RAM then x)
Almost did it with my GPU during covid.
If you’re in the USA I would wait until the dickhead in charge is gone or else you might wake up to find he told Taiwan to eat his ass and charge 600% tariffs on all goods coming from them.
I mean its a joke, but how unlikely would it be really?
Fuck ai
Holy shit
Fuck AI. There is a use case for simple apps like chatgpt.
But, for most things you don’t need AI. Things like chat support for product/services, vibe coded app/website. Its all crap.
All the AI generated video
Yeah, AI video! Useless, we have humans we don’t need to burn resources on stupid.
What was even used for the fake videos before AI? Blender? I legitimately don’t know and would like to know.
The use case for those is doing what we could do on the internet 15 years ago ourselves but it has been so bastardised that it is too inconvenient now.
But, for most things you don’t need AI. Things like chat support for product/services, vibe coded app/website. Its all crap.
I agree, i dont use it for anything useful tho i only use it for entertainment purposes(Like generating stuff)
i usually dont publish or upload the ai generated stuff to the internet(maybe only another llm).
but i am trying to quit/use less AI
I needed a 32gb kit of ddr4 about 18 months ago… $80
I needed a 32gb kit of ddr4 last week, $160!!! Wtf! Okay… Let’s click order and if it drops I can just return it…
Checked this morning, $225!!!
Holy fuck!
Bought a 2tb SSD last week, $199. Checked prices this morning… $225
If you still need some DDR4, I can sell you my old set of 64 GB G. Skill RAM. I swapped it out for Corsair just so the RGB would match my other stuff. I’m not looking for a huge profit.
Edit. I read that wrong. Looks like you ordered some last week.
Can’t really remember the last time it wasn’t a horrible time to build a PC.
last time I built one was in 2012. That was a golden age for PC builds
Pre-COVID, when the Ethereum mining went crazy… so around the time of the RTX 2000 series? Which honestly was pretty lacklustre compared to the GTX 1000 series…
So yeah, it’s been a while!
That’s when I build my current machine. Looks like upgrading is off the menu. Again.
Honestly, if you don’t mind gaming at 1080p, and keeping graphical settings reasonable in order to maintain a playable frame rate - you could be OK for a couple more years.
Otherwise if the upgrade itch just becomes too much, the Steam Machine could very well be a suitable entry point - provided that RAM model prices don’t continue to skyrocket.
I truly cannot wait for the day that the current AI bubble bursts.
1080 will look a bit small on my screen, but if that’s what I have to put up with…
