Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices

• Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Speak for your self - scored a nice GPU upgrade during the crypto crash, maybe something similar will be achievable after this insanity hits the brakes.

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Until the next crisis…

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  • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I thought they weren’t using gaming gpus this time though?

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    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Gaming GPUs during normal crypto markets don’t compute fast enough to mine crypto profitably, but if crypto prices get high enough such as during a boom cycle, it can become profitable to mine on gaming GPUs

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      • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, even less so with gen AI though I think.

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• bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This AI bubble needs to explode yesterday, Wall Street be damned.

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• Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There was a nice window from about a year or two ago to about 3 months ago where no individual components were noticably inflated. Monitors took the longest to recover since the pandemic shortages so that was arguably around the beginning of this year that they seemed to fully normalize

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• Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s the tariffs, now. GPUs had come down a bit before the dumbass

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