Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders

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• brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Probably but with all the idiots fueled by sunken costs and desperate to prove they were right to invest, it could still last a long time.

  I built a decent PC a couple years ago, and I don’t need to upgrade often since I don’t really care about cutting edge. So I kinda dodged a bullet, but, this sucks.

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  • errer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Honestly the incentive to “upgrade” a gaming PC the past decade is really weak. Aside from a few AAA titles almost all games run just fine on old hardware. Particularly if you ditch Windows.

    So let’s just all refuse to buy this overpriced shit. The same price increases have already happened to GPUs and gamers felt like they “needed” to pay those prices still, nah fuck that, don’t give these greedy pigs a dime.

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    • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m worried that they’re trying to price us into not owning our machines anymore. You will own nothing and rent from us strategy.

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      • msage@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well, good news!

        Valve will bring GameBox upon us.

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      • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What’s stopping someone from not playing ball and just cleaning house? Hell, I’d even be okay with 80s-era hardware as long as it’s mine.

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    • Shyanae@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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      • LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Me trying to run VR at 25% Render Scale Ultra Performance

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      • tal@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Honestly, a system with 64GB of memory is pretty well-provisioned compared to a typical prebuilt computer system from a major vendor.

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    • MalReynolds@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I hear you, you makes sense, but that way lies the death of personal general computing, which would be a crying shame. You’ll have nothing and (won’t) like it a few years later, SaaS taking over powered by all those ‘AI’ datacentres. Peak phone could even have happened if RAM becomes prohibitive, instead it’s all centralized, subscription web services. I see it as a pretty existential threat for my preferred way of life.

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  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Probably but with all the idiots fueled by sunken costs and desperate to prove they were right to invest, it could still last a long time.

    not necessarily with hardware though. now they are flush with investments and have holes burning in their pockets. they may artificially extend the bubble, but rapid hardware expansion will be the first thing to slow down or stop.

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  • io@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i built one literally in early November and prices were still normal, that was close haha

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• Pistcow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Im going to get me a dual CPU thread riper server for $399 when the crash happens!

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    assuming they will come down, if they can even get people to buy at an inflated price they wont reduce it.

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• Velypso@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The ai bubble will never pop.

  Safeguards have been removed from the market and too many rich people are balls deep. Prices will be manipulated and prices will continue to soar.

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  • TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thats how bubbles pop. Those safeguards dont prevent an infinite money glitch, they stop the entire system from crumbling in a mild headwind. People always think this time is different during the growth phase of the bubble.

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  • IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    mah, it’s a casino. crash will come eventually, the complication is that both bulls and bears want the same thing.

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• olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The prices will never go down again. There is literally no reason for the companies to decrease the prices. There will be like a 50$ decrease and people would go “oh look it’s so cheap now!!1!!” and companies will keep making 3 times their profits.

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