That $200 worth of ram you bought last year will now cost $1800 fml
I can predict just fine what will happen next
>>109022817with king orange migger in power, the cartels can do whatever they please and no one will do anything to stop them.the manipulation of markets is obvious and transparent.
>>109022888It would be funny if the Mexican cartels stopped snuggling drugs and started snuggling RAM lol
>be me>have old PC. Its slow but gets the job done>Microsoft announces they are ending support for windows 10. my PC wont run windows 11>time to upgrade.exe>Get 0% APR best buy credit card>build 1337 new PC>buy 2x32GB G.SKILL Ripjaws S5 DDR 5 RAM for $139>now the same RAM costs $899 and that price will double by the end of the year.I am so glad I upgraded when I did! I am set for a good 10 years probably.
>>109023126I basically built my entire new PC for what the RAM alone in it will cost by the end of this year.
>>109022817>got 384 gb ddr5 with ecc (8x48gb)>don’t really need the server anymoreMaybe I sould sell 6 sticks and buy a bunch of college age whores with the money
im still on ddr4 and im just not going to upgrade
>>109022888This
>>109022817> ram kit maker sez buy our products faster plzI get why he's anxious, almost nobody's buying at these prices
>>109023371>almost nobody's buying at these pricesExcept all the ultra wealthy data centers who then rent out compute to others
>Built a new PC in August>Sunk an extra hundred into getting 128gb of ddr5 for funsies and bragging rights>Now sitting on over 2k of memoryShould I... Should I sell it?
>>109023552I'm HODLING
>>109023552half at least unless you have a use case
>>109023552Don't get robbed...
I use my DDR5 for AI slop, the only way I'd consider selling it would be to get a Steam Frame when they reveal it costs $1500
Usecase for DDR5?
>>109024216Initial use case was tinkering with AI models, but I ended up getting a framework desktop set up as a headless server so I honestly don't have much of a use for it anymore.
>>109023475Lexar is a consumer company.People aren't buying.It's becoming armageddon as consumer companies vastly overplayed their hand in pricing from the beginning and are now only realizing that people will infact just not pay for it.
>>109023475Are they though? Like is the bill paid or is it just a contracted two way IOU?
>Buy our product now! Don't wait until it will cost you more, netting us more profit!
>>109024282I use my DDR5 for some AI slop also a little gaming and I also use it for 3d modeling and design for work.
>>109022885Nobody will shoot CEOs over ram. It makes sense with health care, but not electronic components.
>>109023371and if the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs crash the market and the ai bubble, prices will fall
>>109022982they can't produce it themselves so what's the point?
>>109022817wish i could sell my PC right now then.with the specs i have i could get an ez 5-7k to buy me some goats and have enough left over to live off of for a years worth of travelling (nomadic)
>>109022817Cursed if true. Maybe this means software vendors gotta optimize their code now.
>>109026487>Maybe this means software vendors gotta optimize their code now.Who's gonna tell him?
>>109025999Vendor financing, yeah.
>>109026359
>>109026792Best Buy has special financing for consumers so its 0% APR as long as you pay it off within 12 months. Thats what I did.
We could have had a world where the average shitty laptop has 24GiB of VRAM and everyone runs a good enough LLM locally and instead we ended up with the worst possible outcome.
>>109026976What I think is going to happen is the next generation of PCs will basically have the hardware of PCs like 20 years ago so 8 gb RAM or something ridiculous like that and then everything will actually run off the the cloud so you only have to pay lets say $200 for a PC thats equivalent to a $5000 pc in power since its running on the cloud.but there will probably be a monthly subscription to use your PC.
>>109027002You should have stayed in high school
>>109026976>We could have had a world where the average shitty laptop has 24GiB of VRAM and everyone runs a good enough LLM locally and instead we ended up with the worst possible outcome.it's on purpose anon, and the purpose was the exact contrary of this. big LLM companies DO NOT want you to run local LLMs, they want you to buy their products, and to prevent anyone else from joining the market.
>>109027041Its funny because I'm probably right
Bump
>>109022982>Jesse, we need to make chips
>>109023126Same. I balked at the eventual $3000 price tag for my 2023 PC, but I did have the money and had been using the same PC since 2011. My 64GB 6600mhz Dominator RAM was ~$300. That same RAM is $1262 right now and we're moving back to Raptor Lake/DDR4 for a bit. With that going on, this might force software developers to optimize their software to accommodate lower end hardware for the next couple years. That will just make 64GB of RAM even cozier.
>>109026364>producingYou seem to misunderstand.
