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I got some 16gb of DDR4 i found in a closet. You guys can start bidding.
I feel so justified for doubling down on Zen 3, and replacing my dead R9 5900X with an R9 5900XT lol
I’m getting worried, 'cause I’ve got the same. What killed yours?
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.
The thing with the bubble bursting is it will still take time for it to come down, as they’ll need to start manufacturering consumer RAM again. The stuff they’re churning out now can’t be thrown into a PC or laptop.
And they’ll NEVER allow prices to drop back to reasonable levels. They’ve already learned people will pay a premium during a shortage, so they can still artificially control the supply to keep prices high.
If competitors ever emerge making RAM at reasonable prices, we need to boycott the current fuckwads even when they undercut the new players.
I dont… I am absolutely stressing the DDR3 I have. But no way I am going to pay 500% for some memory!
So I got this RAM in August 2025, for ~$400 according to the receipt:
…That is absolutely bonkers.
I wonder if the fed gov cares that entire sectors of the tech economy are being threatened by one (AI).
They might get interested if people start talking about Epstein again.
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.
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.)
Dingaling! They will rent it to you and it will have latency issues, but who cares money.
I will say technologically my trials of both Google Stadia and Xbox Live Play Anywhere were both impressive and ran well for single player and co-op games. But the idea of actually paying an ongoing fee to play my games? Fuck that.
People said this about movies too, don’t be too optimistic
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.
I do.
I wish I had 192GB, to be honest.
Same. But more than that - I noticed that my 7700x is a huge bottleneck: desktop CPUs limited to just 2 channels, plus controller in 7700 is kinda meh, so I can’t force anything above 5600mt\s with my 4 sticks. Switching to new CPU should allow to increase speed, but will still lock me to 2 channels. So I should’ve bought cheapest threadripper instead, which allows 4 or 8 channels instead.
Depends what you are going for. 7000/9000 series have way more per-thread performance than threadripper.
Another quirk with single CCD 7000 chips (which I have as well) is that the infinity fabric limits effective bandwidth to the CPU cores. Even with two channels, you hit diminishing returns with higher speeds, especially if you aren’t using the IGP.
You can get around it overclocking the IF, but it gets complicated and its much easier to do with 9000 series CPUs.
introducing: zram
toss 32 or 64gb at that and call it a day
YMMV.
Big ZRAM absolutely tanks performance for me because it “steals” space that could be used for normal memory.
But if its for squirrling away a bunch of idle processes when multitasking like crazy, yeah, it can be wonderful. Just depends.
I paid $350 for a similar kit back in October. Same kit selling at the same place is 4k…
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 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.
I still wish I had a better GPU
My 7900xtx was a rollercoaster of emotions all the way till now, so I decided to buy nvidia even tho I don’t support them as a company in the slightest (nor do I support amd at this point, considering they dipped in same AI bubble as soon as they had the chance).
So yeah, “I will just buy next top-tier gpu as soon as it arrives” was looking like this for past couple of years:
I’m rockin a 6700xt for my gpu :\
I really shouldnt complain, its a great card, it just doesnt have the horse power to chug through the bullshit lack of optimization in Unreal5 based games. especially ones that force some form of raytracing to be on with no toggle.
I built a new PC around that time for the same reason. I am kicking myself for not getting more ram.
sell 64gb of it today and pay for your entire PC build, plus a new (used) car.
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent
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And people who have an issue with this are called luddites
Absolute clown show
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.
I’ve only heard that term being used to insult, that’s actually a real thing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddites
The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who protested the usage of certain types of automated machinery owing to their concerns relating to worker pay, labour savings, child labour, working conditions, and output quality. They often destroyed said machines in organised raids. Members of the group referred to themselves as Luddites, self-described followers of “Ned Ludd”, a legendary weaver whose name was used as a pseudonym in threatening letters to mill owners and government officials.
History is written by the victors, and the luddites lost. That’s why they’re maligned as backwards idiots who didn’t want tech to succeed.
They weren’t stupid. They knew precisely what was going to happen, and did their best to stop it. Generally they took care to target only machines as their goal wasn’t to harm people but to remain employed, and have money to survive with. Naturally there were exceptions, and sometimes people did get hurt.
But then, the bourgeoisie enacted law to prevent this where destroying mechanical looms became punishable by… oh let’s see…
The act, as passed, made the destruction of mechanised looms […] a capital felony (and hence a crime punishable by death).
Right! Death! Destruction of company property became punishable by death.
And people did die. Children died. Mind you, back then workers were anyone capable of working, and they had no rights. They didn’t vote for the people who passed this act; workers weren’t supposed to have a voice, and so the only recourse was rebellion.
This didn’t stop things immediately, there’s quite a lot of really cool worker history here, but eventually the government sent in the military and couple that with nothing really changing despite widespread rebellion, the luddite movement fizzled out.
I’ve never heard it used as an insult. How is it even supposed to be offensive? “Har har you’re a person who doesn’t like tech”?
Less of “you’re a person who doesn’t like tech” and more “you’re not with the times/are scared of the future”… which is pretty close to some messaging from clankers.
I am scared of the future, you know why? Because everything feels so unbearably bleak and I wish I had something to feel actually hopeful for.
But I guess we’ll own nothing and be forced to live with it.
I see, thank you!
Gotta warp the truth to misdirect from the real problems.
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.
Give it 10 years and civilians won’t be able to own PCs… We will be forced to the cloud computers. And by that time AI surveillance and profiling will already have its infrastructure built.
We need to figure out how to do our daily things with very few computing resources. Gaming and heavy workloads excepted, most things we do ought to be possible on 15 year old CPU’s and 2GB. All we need is efficiency and low expectations. Fuck em.
It was already possible to do that. Then Electron came in and developers thought it was better to just release stupid apps that take 4 GB of RAM each.
“Believe it or not, straight to jail”.
Yeah. We went to the moon with, like, 1 MHz CPU and 2 KB RAM.
That’s maybe what was on the LEM. The total computing power including the mainframes “back home” was a wee bit more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360_Model_91
(Also besides the fact that it was 200000+ gallons of kerosene that did the “going”)
That’s still about 1000x less raw CPU performance than the cheapest smartphone on the market, though.
(E.g. a Blu View 5 Pro, which is the cheapest Tracfone is listing as in stock, for $30. Its Helio G36 uses 4 Cortex A53 cores at 2200MHz and 4 at 1800 MHz, and between 1-2 instructions per clock, giving between 16000-32000 million instructions per second. The IBM ran at 16.6 million instructions per second, per that Wikipedia link.)
(Looking at Walmart turned up a TCL K33 5G for only $20, but it uses a Dimensity 6300 cpu which is actually a little more powerful.)
Which just shows we waste tremendous computing resources on trash.
Not even. The Intel 8008 didn’t even break 1MHz and that was a few years later.
I don’t know what they used on the moon landing, though.
I don’t know what they used on the moon landing, though.
An efficient, real-time multitasking software stack on a 2MHz processor with the equivalent of ~4K of RAM and 64K of ROM.
Smart enough to handle being accidentally overloaded by its operators and still balance a spacecraft on a single engine and land on the moon while doing multiple reboots to clear its software stack. It would work its way down a list of “fly a spacecraft” tasks from critical, to informational, to just monitoring, with a certain amount of time allocated to complete the whole list. If it ran out of time, it would drop everything, perform the equivalent of a reboot with navigation parameters parked in memory, and then start again at the most critical task.
Apollo 11’s crew accidentally left their rendezvous radar (which was checking on the location of the command module in orbit) in a mode that constantly poked the computer with “pay attention to me” interrupts, and it couldn’t service the radar and run through it’s task list completely while it was on descent to the lunar surface.
To the programming team’s credit, this just caused an overload alarm a few times and the mission completed successfully.
The Apollo programmers pretty much created the whole software engineering field from scratch in the 10 years before 1969.
Very cool, thanks for the detail.
Aldrin deliliberately ran the approach radar which was not in the standard operating procedure
This is the time for Permacomputing to shine.
And even gaming is possible with those specs: retro gaming and emulation, thousands of excellent games
If you take gaming out of the equation though I don’t really need any sort of computing power.
How did you write this? Are you a wizard?
Its already here. Most “regular” users already depend for most part of there digital life on subscription based cloud computing. Al lot of people don’t even own a PC anymore, only mobile devices.
I was there on the first wave of the cloud boom (2012-ish), it’s biggest pushers got really angry that we weren’t up to give up our computers for “sleek, slim, and elegant” devices that would make wires “obsolete” at least in the home, so we can finally live in a sci-fi movie. They literally wanted us to use “browser app” DAWs that would do it’s computing on the cloud, then they realized many of us would like to record music, run live effects, etc.
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 if it doesn’t, let em have it. I’ll cancel my internet, and start overloading all other infrastructure with confusion from not knowing how to deal with humans and paper…
idgaf. I can’t and won’t be forced to comply to a subscription.
No big. Guess I’ll have to wait another year before upgrading my laptop. Sorry for the loss of business.
They want you to get a cloud computer subscription. They want you to buy a Windows Portal, or whatever garbage small “terminal” device they will come up, and force regulators to make it be called a “fully fledged computer”.
I’ve called it. Laptops and PCs will be outlawed and hunted down like hiding a radio unit in WW2. Think Farenheit 451 levels of dogma
Chip companies are cutting off consumers on purpose. They lost your $100 business and gained $1000 sales on the same products
