What are people doing about the extremely overpriced RAM & storage? Is there any solution or stopgap?
>>108012665waiting
either pay out or dontI got enough ram for the foreseeable future before the happening so im gucci
>>108012665what do you mean by "people"the average consumer? laptop and smartphone manufacturers?i'm not doing enough because i don't need any more ram
buying it to dab on the poorfags
>>108012665they eat shit or cope with what they have
>>108012665Seems a golden opportunity for an American company to start producing RAM & such. No tarrifs. The money stays in the country. Win win.
>>108012795American produced RAM would cost 5 times as much because workers wont accept $5 an hour salaries
>>108012665>Is there any solutionsolution 1: Get a Jobsolution 2: Stop Being Pooreither of those methods should work
do people buy new ram every year like they buy a new toothbrush? what is this mass panic?
>>108012665Do you have a computer already?>YesDo you have 8 or 16GB of RAM already?>...yes?Then just wait. Panic buying fags from /g/ and /v/ could not hold themselves and resulted in a price spike. I swear to God this site has an autistic degree of contrarianism.>I just use a Pentium machine running XP. Let me guess, you need more?>Bought RAM just before the prices soared, imagine being a poorfagI will be laughing my ass off when faggots who overpaid for 5090s and RAM will be told by /v/ and /g/ that their hardware is obsolete within 5 years, especially once the bubble pops.>>108013077>do people buy new ram every year like they buy a new toothbrush? what is this mass panic?I guess only Americans do. Mass panic on this site is intentional and artificial. Anyone telling you otherwise is fucking nefarious.
>>108013097>do you have 8gb of RAM already?>Then just wait.absurdly grim
>>108012665You're either never getting next-gen parts again or (best case scenario) a new 1440p build will cost 2-4x a median first world monthly salary. I've accepted that I'm on DDR4 for the next 7+ years at least. Just try to maintain what you have.>buy cheap refurbished shit within your budget>buy thrown away or stolen parts at thrift/pawn stores>offer to take any device your extended family is willing to throw out>get an ifixit kit to refresh old laptops with temu SSDs, linux and maybe a screen upgrade if you're brave enoughThe thrift/pawn stores might be worth money since normies don't know what they're selling. One local store was selling low end AM4 cpus for €8-12 at one point (low enough to take a punt on), though prices for even those have at least doubled in the last two months. I used to feel crazy for holding onto a 1 year old laptop, or buying a used optiplex for €100 that was possessed by a smoker's ghost. I never believed the "you will own nothing" meme until recently...
options i see1. buy some used prebuilt somewhere from someone who doesn't know or care, and just take the RAM & storage out for your build as a stopgap solution2. stopgap with a computer that wasnt effected because prices are locked in and everything is soldered on, like an m4 mac mini or a laptop3. build anyway and accept burning ~$400 extra from overpaying4. wait for something to come in stock? i don't know if this is even possible really.
>>108012708This. It's just gonna lead to temporary loss of profits and productivity.
Hold onto whatever you have.Under no circumstances should you actually purchase inflated RAM. Rewarding those who are actively fucking you over is the cuckiest thing ever.
Using my fast ssd as extra ram.
Right now, prebuilts are a good deal
>>108014945like what. aren't prebuilts really bad
>>108012665I have given up. Once my 1060 dies I'll just become a laptop fag. >>108012708>>108013591I've been "waiting" since around 2022.
>>108012665Reencode everything into AV1
>>108012665Nothing. Those with the power do to anything are either in on the scam or are going to end up holding the bag when the scam collapses.Our civilization is one that has been completely derailed by incompetence and insatiable, aimless greed.
>>108012665>What are people doing about the extremely overpriced RAM & storage?nothing. I have 48 gigs of ram in my computer I got over a year ago. I have a filing cabinet 1/4 full of hard drives I have saved. I have extra drives for my NAS boxes if a drive fails.
>>108013097>their hardware is obsolete within 5 years>J-JUST WAIT 5 YEARS TO DO ANYTHING ON YOUR PC BROS........................
>>108012665Buying store-built gaming PC's. Not prebuild slop like fucking Lenovo or HP but pretty much all major tech chains in my country has their own gaming PC lineup of clean (no extra bloat) builds. They are still at a reasonable price level.
>>108012980More like CEO's wont accept less than a gorgrillian dollars in dividends
>>108012665I'm buying HDDs straight from Western Digital (theirs are still reasonably priced) to cope and seethe, except they all arrive damagedyou'd think WD would know how to avoid that outcome but apparently not
>>108015610yeah, im unironically considering getting a HDD and then just using it as a secondary once SSD prices go back to normal. still have no final solution for the RAM question though
>>108015328>I've been "waiting" since around 2022.Then you are retarded. CPUs and RAM were cheap as fuck for a long period of time you were "waiting". MOBOs were more expensive but nothing crazy, and mainly due to expected lifetime of AM5
>>108015516>another braindead economicsletYou don't know what the fuck a divident is
All hardware prices will eventually go down to historical lows once the US collapses after the Second Civil War, and the rest of the world isn't beholden to their bullshit any longer.
I buy second hand, I got a Samsung 2.5 SSD for $25I don’t know what was on it before I bought it tho…
Bought on black Friday ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>>108015951>CPUs and RAM were cheap as fuck for a long period of time you were "waiting".No shit, I was waiting on GPUs to not be retarded expensive. If I have to track prices like a consoomer fag just to build a PC ever again in my life then it's not worth it. I'll just laptop fag, cloud cuck, own nothing, and be happy.
>>108015951>>108016041>bro just buy your parts over a 3 year period
>prices finally return to normal>new stuff comes out a week later
>>108012665on linux there is this thing called swap partition. it is a place where the os places things that don't fit in ram.right now you can buy a 4tb seagate drive for $80.putting all this information together.buy 4tb drive.format it to be a swap partition.mount the drive as a swap partition.BOOM.dab on the ramletsyou now have at least 4008gb of usable memory usable on your system. problem solved.
>>108016104incredible
>>108012665SWAP + ZRAM
>>108016104>>108016188it would be literally like 1/500,000th the speed of RAM
lol this economy is bananas. I really think the powers at be dont want us to have a computer. I think we'll eventually all end up with chromebooks and renting some sort of cloud desktop for hundreds a week.
>>108012665>What are people doing about the extremely overpriced RAM & storage?Selling my old shit on ebay to desperate mooks for stupidly more than I paid for it. KA-CHING!
>>108012992Now tell us that story about how you could buy an entire house, raise a family and go to college just by flipping burgers.Don't forget to mention that it was extremely soul crushing and backbreaking.
>>108016200It's been obvious for years that the elites want to make personal computer ownership illegal. They want to monitor everything you do. You will have to subscribe to access all your shit on a central cloud from your state-issued Obama phone.
>>108016475I already have 512GB of RAM, 6TB of NVME drives, and 70TB of hard drives. I'm fine.Learn to time travel.
>>108012665it's over
No one is stopping you from robbing the las vegas sphere at gunpoint for their tech
>>108012665Do you need new a PC or extremely need a RAM upgrade because it doesn't work in 2026 (like 4GB, maaaaybe 8GB)? If so there are Laptops or something like Mac Studio. Or you can just overpay 2-3X.
>>108016041Yep, retarded. You already were spiritually a laptopfag, refusing to take advantage of the nodularity of a PC, insisting on getting everything all at once, hoping there will be some magical perfect situation where nothing is overpriced. And you know what? THERE WAS AHAHAHAHA. Late last year right before RAM started to go up
