Post B0uF3a2d1xCwItEmSu by soothspider@gigaohm.bio
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(DIR) Post #B0tRC1mEnZZUvtPBcO by D-Droid@poa.st
2025-12-04T04:06:52.536968Z
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How fucked are computer enjoyers by this?
(DIR) Post #B0tRfCdxTapD24RcMi by Suzu@detroitriotcity.com
2025-12-04T04:12:03.902241Z
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@D-Droid very.Crucial made cheap but good memory.But what's most worrisome is thay it sets a trend: companies don't want to waste their time selling to consumers anymore, because the AI bubble keeps printing money and they want a slice of it. Samsung also came forward saying that during next year consumers will be fucked with RAM, and supplies are predicted to start stabilizing only in 2027.
(DIR) Post #B0tRuqFMVxVWCgOfhI by D-Droid@poa.st
2025-12-04T04:14:58.360601Z
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@Suzu >stabilizing in 2027God damn Nintendo lucked out releasing their console this year, every other console is gonna be fucked by this, pcs included.Fuck I might go get a new phone and computer before shit is fcked
(DIR) Post #B0tSsuxQ85UABjeROK by Suzu@detroitriotcity.com
2025-12-04T04:25:45.928222Z
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@D-Droid shit is already fucked, tbh, but the forecast is that it will get worse.RAM prices already went through the roof. GPU prices dropped a bit, so maybe the time to get one is now, because later I think things will get worse.AMD already announced a price increase in the MSRP of their cards, and Nvidia is planning to send chips without the embedded VRAM to their partners, and the partners (like Galax, Asus, Zotac, etc) will be responsible for acquiring and fitting the cards with VRAM.And obviously even big companies like Asus will have trouble buying VRAM with the same conditions Nvidia did, so it is expected that GPU prices will increase again.I thankfully had decided I wouldn't be migrating from the AM4 platform for the foreseeable future, and got 128 GB of DDR4 RAM before shit hit the fan, so I guess I'm good for the next few years.
(DIR) Post #B0tTn0UyiLIjah5pvU by D-Droid@poa.st
2025-12-04T04:35:57.997065Z
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@Suzu Good call, wish I had your foresight
(DIR) Post #B0tTslIa8kVaBd2TfU by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
2025-12-04T04:36:56.177945Z
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Crucial made cheap but good memory.They didn't make memory. They just assembled it. There are only three memory fabs: Samsung, Micron and SK Hynix. Everyone "assembles" the memory from those shops. Most just use the reference PCBs too. The only think they really "make" are the heat spreaders, plastic bits and RGB puke.
(DIR) Post #B0tU6uKLMy12F3blfk by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
2025-12-04T04:39:29.269136Z
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I was looking at AMD R9700s for some workstation stuff (they have 32GB of ram; can run large image models) but everything seems sold out except for some of the ASRock versions ... probably just gonna hold off and build out some of my storage backups instead.
(DIR) Post #B0tj16Z6SETllxCdua by hispanicweeb@detroitriotcity.com
2025-12-04T07:26:32.424737Z
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@Suzu @D-Droid I'm tired Mr. Hitler... :mito_weary:
(DIR) Post #B0uF3a2d1xCwItEmSu by soothspider@gigaohm.bio
2025-12-04T05:53:55.829071Z
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Correct. Except Crucial is owned by Micron. So basically the assembler of their own chips in consumer form.Basically consumers will have expensive RAM for the foreseeable future (and SSDs, HDDs even, also other components like Mobos and processors; it'll even eat the used market). So hopefully you've bought all your compute needs for the next two years. 😉
(DIR) Post #B0uFqrjq1RzzNZwvSK by Suzu@detroitriotcity.com
2025-12-04T13:34:27.028614Z
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@djsumdog @D-Droid yeah, I bought a 16GB 9070xt. I mostly do gayming, and just play around a bit with AI, so I guess 16GB will be enough for my use case (I haven't set up anything yet, I've heard the AMD AI stack is atrocious).I mean, I was using a 8GB RTX 3070 before that.32GB cards are ridiculously hard to find and expensive around here, so I didn't even bother with those. The 9700s is the new one they are releasing specifically for AI, that is built on top of the 9070, but just with more VRAM, right?As for the rest of the stuff, I had upgraded from my old APU Ryzen 4650G to a Ryzen 5700x not too long ago (couldn't get my hands on a 5700x3D, unfortunately), and couldn't see any benefit in migrating to AM5 considering the costs implied, so I just bought all the RAM I could before DDR4 started disappearing from the market, and I guess that now I'm set for the foreseeable future.If I feel the processor is not enough (and it is, even for gaming most people don't need all the processing power they try to push), I'll just try to procure some second hand 5800x3D.
(DIR) Post #B0uG3x9lBncFwpJZxI by Suzu@detroitriotcity.com
2025-12-04T13:36:48.330447Z
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@D-Droid it was mostly luck than foresight. I couldn't have predicted that RAM would go the same way GPUs did.What happened was that I decided not to migrate to the AM5 platform, so I was stuck with DDR4 ram. Since DDR4 is being discontinued, the tendency is for it's prices to rise, so I just bought the max my motherboard supported before this happened.
(DIR) Post #B0uHUDqrq5SrD7ZGqm by Spooke@detroitriotcity.com
2025-12-04T13:52:47.233911Z
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@Suzu the real meta. Buying up an old corporate laptop with ddr5 sodimms to cannibalize it for 32gb of sodimm ram and then buying a minisforum amd motherboard to plug your gpu into. :Kekw:
(DIR) Post #B0uI8DTudQfve5txNg by Suzu@detroitriotcity.com
2025-12-04T13:59:59.213055Z
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@Spooke main problem is that the second hand market is also fucked, you can't find a cheap used corporate laptop. At least not one with DDR5.Also, even some corporate laptops are coming with soldered RAM nowadays.