https://www.techspot.com/news/110871-samsung-sk-hynix-jacking-up-dram-prices-much.html
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Actually bought some parts to build a diy nuc, have nvme and was thinking of reusing my 16gb ddr4 sodimm stick..but i do see some used ddr4 sodimm 32gb kits for around 100 usd which still hasnt gone up much yet…may actually buy one of them…
I think the phrase “ time to panic buy”, might actually apply here since there is no end in sight from this BS. On one hand im all for letting the AI bubble burst, but i also know there be a ton of blowback from that sort of thing.
Yeah thats why im considering if i want to buy a used kit when they havent actually gone up much in price even if i dont need more than the 16gb (already overkill) for this new build…
I got this MB with the intel 12100
Its pretty cool as it takes so-dimm and does not need a regular PSU as you just connect a power brick directly to it. Makes for a nice diy nuc mb.
This is the case i will likely buy for it.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005847542713.html
I hate to be that Guy, but I think we’re officially in the “if you didn’t already upgrade to cover the next 3+ years, you need to do it ASAP” territory. Get in while we haven’t fully peaked and then wait out the disaster until things stabilize again.
yeah…its such a shame especially since we are not far from amd zen 6 and intel nova lake…
Definitely the opposite of a Golden Age but it happens. This Too Shall Pass.
Hopefully…im still worried this will go the same way GPU prices did…
Also you better a new smartphone asap if you need a new one this year cuz they are next on the chopping block…
Yep. In the US, GPUs are already starting to creep back up again as well (although not as bad as the peak yet).
Really curious how this will work out. A lot of major carriers in the US do kind of “upgrade-itis” with customers where they subsidize a lot of the new phones with either contracts or trade-ins, so unless you just buy unlocked OEMs I wonder just how drastic it’ll be? I myself could probably ride out my current one for years unless the battery goes or something, but when the time comes I do question just how much more they may be if we don’t get another Fab or two up and running for OEM Memory. I also don’t sweat it as much as I’m a mid-tier offering guy more than a Flagship Whore, since I never need that much out of my phone even for work purposes.
yeah that is popular here as well. Dunno how it will affect those, but the phone by themselves will likely be more expensive and even if not directly we will be getting less ram in them.
That’s the one thing that isn’t negotiable to me (and I will probably end up paying for lol), I do not ‘upgrade’ for less RAM and probably wouldn’t do it for the same amount unless my current one breaks and needs replacement (and the same model isn’t available). Unfortunately my current carrier (T-Mobile) tends to only offer and be fully compatible with lowest-end versions of a given model but they’ve been good enough to me outside of that to get me to stick with them this long. When my last phone (OnePlus 9 Pro) tried committing suicide while I was in Hungary on work, I had to get a hasty replacement out of pocket which wasn’t a US model so when I got home I couldn’t even connect to 5G and actually had to get yet ANOTHER phone which was a step down when I was back lol (I keep the Europhone as a spare for when I go abroad again). Outside of that extenuating circumstance, I don’t do “downgrades” because I tend to keep a phone for years at a time.
Yeah, its pretty hard to get a full upgrade in every factor with phones nowadays…so keeping it for several years is optimal. I do however wonder if the new battery law eu is implementing next year will actually change anything…
Biggest obstacle to keeping a phone for many years is the battery degradation…would be easily solved if they just made them replaceable like the old models…
This was the first thing that actually made me mad about the state of cellphones. I had to replace several batteries over the years (when it was easy and solder-less) but now you simply can’t get phones with removable batteries, which is terrible since they’re literal hazards (my OnePlus bulged, I managed to 100% discharge it but what a heart attack!).
Easiest model to replace batteries now is from fairphone iirc.
Still needs some tools though…
If this forces people to finally stop treating cpu and ram boosts as a way to get away with sloppy coding and bloated software it could end up being a positive longer term
Going back to optimizing programming and code instead of hotfixes and memory leaks would be an amazing side benefit!
but releasing a half finished game and blaming consumers cheaping out on their PC’s is the way to go! lol
had a big scare lol
screen went black watching some youtube
thought my monitor or GPU died
turns out it was just the DP cable
Yeah…you really DONT want any of your hardware dying particularly the gpu, ram and nvme…
It makes me actually wonder if i should get a heatsink or something for my ram in my main pc…