It must be speculation. Even higher spec DDR4 is through the roof. Im still kicking myself because I was planning to buy Patriot DDR4 sticks on Amazon to max out my old PC build. On September 29 they were $230, but Discover has a 5% cash back bonus for Oct-Dec so I thought I'll just wait a couple of days to check out.
On Oct 1st the fucking price jumped to over $400! Then it sold out. Its not a huge priority so I have not seriously shopped around yet to compare but fuck.
I recently heard a stat that roughly 90% of the US's GDP growth this year is entirely from data centers. I wonder if that, in combo with the fake and gay push for AI, is causing this, or at least contributing to it.
I can certainly see their reluctance. The previous administration had 4 years and they completely tanked everything. This administration has been in office for less than one and they're already getting shit. That being said, the problem is bad and it doesn't seem like anything is really being done and move the needle.
Congress under Republican presidents is always lame duck. Nothing happens.
Biden changed the definition of recession to prevent one from happening under his watch, and the media magically came up with AI as the New Thing™ after Pfizer and its COVID revenue dried up so that line go up.
The Republicans are heels in the gay wrestling theater that is Washington DC. It was rigged from the start, including Trump winning 2024.
Yeah I haven't brought any hardware since 2020. Not only is there no games worth playing that justifies the cost, but the prices for hardware is just obscene.
I ordered a little 2 in 1 laptop/tablet a week ago, and after checking ram prices to see if I could do a self-upgrade after ordering I just bumped to 32gigs in the manufacturer configurator because it was cheaper than ordering 16gb myself...
I bought memory, SSDs and thumb drives about a year and a half ago during the flash/nand oversupply last year. Turned out to be a good choice. Do I really need 128Gb of memory? No, not really, but the price was relatively cheap compared to the rest of the components, and it has occasionally come in handy.
can't find the article, but i read manifacturers conspired to lower production.
was planning to buy a couple of 16tb drives for prosperity, they cost 150€ more than a year ago now...
So what you're saying is he's on a board of some group benefitting from this spike and he's made himself millions in stock speculation he himself triggered? 🤔
We bought an industrial tray (50 count) of DDR5 32GB RDIMMs and another with SODIMMs back in July and thought we were getting mildly ripped off and the prices would drop.
Ah well this is fucking annoying, I wanted to pick up 8 or 16gb DDR4 extra for my rig this Negro Friday. Hope those prices aren't affected, but I'm sure they will be.
It must be speculation. Even higher spec DDR4 is through the roof. Im still kicking myself because I was planning to buy Patriot DDR4 sticks on Amazon to max out my old PC build. On September 29 they were $230, but Discover has a 5% cash back bonus for Oct-Dec so I thought I'll just wait a couple of days to check out.
On Oct 1st the fucking price jumped to over $400! Then it sold out. Its not a huge priority so I have not seriously shopped around yet to compare but fuck.
Also fuck Sam Altman in general.
RAM manufacturers might also be up to their usual price fixing bullshit as well
I recently heard a stat that roughly 90% of the US's GDP growth this year is entirely from data centers. I wonder if that, in combo with the fake and gay push for AI, is causing this, or at least contributing to it.
Fucking literally the same thing I want to do. Shit.
Damn. And here I was thinking about doing a new PC build.
I can certainly see their reluctance. The previous administration had 4 years and they completely tanked everything. This administration has been in office for less than one and they're already getting shit. That being said, the problem is bad and it doesn't seem like anything is really being done and move the needle. Congress under Republican presidents is always lame duck. Nothing happens.
Biden changed the definition of recession to prevent one from happening under his watch, and the media magically came up with AI as the New Thing™ after Pfizer and its COVID revenue dried up so that line go up.
The Republicans are heels in the gay wrestling theater that is Washington DC. It was rigged from the start, including Trump winning 2024.
Yeah I haven't brought any hardware since 2020. Not only is there no games worth playing that justifies the cost, but the prices for hardware is just obscene.
I ordered a little 2 in 1 laptop/tablet a week ago, and after checking ram prices to see if I could do a self-upgrade after ordering I just bumped to 32gigs in the manufacturer configurator because it was cheaper than ordering 16gb myself...
I bought memory, SSDs and thumb drives about a year and a half ago during the flash/nand oversupply last year. Turned out to be a good choice. Do I really need 128Gb of memory? No, not really, but the price was relatively cheap compared to the rest of the components, and it has occasionally come in handy.
One can never have too much RAM.
Especially when slopware developers see it as free real estate.
Hey, if you can't run my pixel-art slay-the-spire clone without a terabyte of RAM, that sounds like a skill issue on your side.
Oops, I just memory-leaked inside your RAM uwu
Word on the street is the AI data centers are sucking up all the RAM.
can't find the article, but i read manifacturers conspired to lower production. was planning to buy a couple of 16tb drives for prosperity, they cost 150€ more than a year ago now...
Highly sane response to "the price of RAM went up".
Coulda just said jew
why are you repeating the same words over and over
So what you're saying is he's on a board of some group benefitting from this spike and he's made himself millions in stock speculation he himself triggered? 🤔
Yeah, but line go up.
It's a speculative bubble driven by people who think AI data centers will be a gold mine for high priced RAM.
We bought an industrial tray (50 count) of DDR5 32GB RDIMMs and another with SODIMMs back in July and thought we were getting mildly ripped off and the prices would drop.
Lucky.
Nope. Either prices go back or I don't bother.
It's not a priority. Especially not with the very large catalog of good older games that run on almost anything.
I'm happy I pulled the trigger on 512GB of DDR5 during the summer. 🤐
I bought 64gb for a laptop back in August for $100. Just checked, it's over $330 for the same ram. Dang.
Glad I grabbed the 64gb kits back when they were pretty cheap. I've noticed GPU prices have also skyrocketed again.
AI companies are buying all the stock and fabrication production. Simple supply/demand.
Moore's Law inevitably crashes into the rocky shores of scarce resources with alternative uses.
Moore's Law is not a smooth slope, but a stepped progression.
Ah well this is fucking annoying, I wanted to pick up 8 or 16gb DDR4 extra for my rig this Negro Friday. Hope those prices aren't affected, but I'm sure they will be.
Police in Europe frantically checking what “negro” means and if its a hate crime to use spanish or if they are the racists for not knowing spanish
If it isn't those goddamn bitcoin miners, then it's the AI bubble hoax.