Comment on Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts

tabular@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What?

  You think this is the first ram crunch?

  It’s not even the first one in this decade…

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  • tabular@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well, I was aware RAM prices fluctuate.

    I’ve never been so unfortunate when buying larger RAM, or building a new system with a new DDR version.

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    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They don’t real fluctuate, it’s more oscillating.

      Sometimes it’s “normal” but due to a wide range of issues that can change quickly and stay that way for months because everyone waits till prices go down. So as they go down, people stop waiting,

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• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Those are the same people.

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