Never thought I’d have to time the market to buy my next laptop, but here we are.
Great timing of two of my DDR4 RAM modules to die - I have never seen more errors in memtest+
Luckily they are still under warranty but the vendor simply gave a refund without any option to get a replacement…
When the bubble pops on ai, will there then be all those parts up for offer?
If it’s anything like the crypto bubble from a couple years ago, then yeah. eBay should be flooded with used RAM and GPUs.
Crypto bubble?
checks price
Wut?
There was one a while ago, back when mining on GPUs was still viable. I wanna say the GTX 1000 series was still in vogue at the time.
So you mean recession, not bubble
It crashed hard and it crashed fast after a prolonged period of unsustainable growth. Is that not a bubble?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264999321002327
Correct. It was not a bubble. It is a volitile system that will continue to crash and rise forever.
Regardless of what happened to crypto, it was certainly a crypto mining hardware bubble for anyone invested in that.
Fucking sucks. Literally just started building a computer for my husband. We already bought the case, motherboard, PSU, HD, liquid cooling kit and CPU… All that’s left is GPU and RAM 😭 fuckin half way ass done computer now on the verge of never being built. At least it’s pretty.
At least the AMD chips have an integrated GPU so with some ram you could have a basic computer.
It’s the RAM that’s extremely expensive 😭
True, but you can expand the ram, your board has enough slots. You’re stuck with whatever video card you can afford until the next upgrade.
I don’t have any RAM lol. I’ve been slowly buying these parts for a few months now. This is all completely new. On my purchase timeline I was supposed to buy RAM this week. 😹
Number of slots is misleading with DDR5. When you need more RAM, you’re supposed to replace the entire kit instead of trying to expand. It’s also now recommended you only use 2 slots even if it has 4. When I found that out, I couldn’t believe how fucking stupid it is. Even RAM is enshittified in 2025.
I wanted to punch someone when I first read this. What the hell is the point if you can’t use all the slots. You also have to stagger them, there’s no using the first 2. Fuckin bullshit
Can confirm, I’m running 3x 4K monitors with Ryzen 9900X easily. I’m not into gaming, though.
I wonder how long I can keep going with my Ryzen 5 3600, 1660 Super and 16GB of RAM… 🤔
Cries in 7300HQ and 1050 😭
i7 3700k and GTX 980 here lol
FX-8350 and 1070. But I got 32GB of DDR3…I think, I don’t even remember what I put in here in 2016
Depends on your needs and resolution. You can always upgrade CPU to a Ryzen 5700x3d and the GPU to something like a rx6000 or rtx4000 series and get a big boost. No need do go all in with newest hardware.
Bout 10 minutes
I mean the only thing in recent years that performed like utter shit was Stalker 2. And I mean… They made that game in the middle of a war so I have to cut them a little slack. 🤷♂️
Lmao well jokes aside, you’ll be good for awhile, we crossed the point of diminishing returns some time ago for GPUs. I ran a 1060 for a LONG time lol
I’m really glad I met my memory needs last year. The price is completely unjustifiable. AI will blow over (revert to reasonable expectations) and when it does, hopefully there will be something left of the market so that we still have companies left to sell us RAM.
I’m sad I chose to wait. Linux kernel 6.15 finally fixed my GPU but I got no RAM to run it with
It’s certainly not your fault. Nobody could have been certain prices would explode this much.
Yeah, I still can’t quite believe that I got 2x32 of 6400CL32 for $135 late last year. I had ordered 6000CL30 for $190, but it was taking a long time to ship, and then I saw the deal and cancelled the old order. Used up all my luck for this decade.
I got 64GB (kit of 2) ddr4 for 150€ In January, now it is almost 400€ or more. I thought of buying another kit of 64 later to max out my mobo to 128GB and now I’m totally kicking myself for not going for 128GB straight away. And last month it got announced they no longer will make ddr4 so I’m out of luck anyway now even if prices stabilize.
As for why I need that much ram, I’m a tab hoarder and like to run VMs
A couple months ago I decides to buy another set of RAM to get up to 64 GB on a whim. So damn glad I decided to treat myself for once, no way I’d do it now.
You don’t hate genAI enough!
PCMasterrace though, amirite?
What? You can’t code on a PS5 so… 🤦♀️
