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Are we witnessing the end of PC gaming as we know it?
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Cloud gaming is the future
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Where the fuck were you people during crypto? Is this honestly your first time?
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>>729106142
Anyone that can afford $999 of RAM is too rich for me to sympathize with.
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Are you so retarded that think that consoles won´t be affected too?
>>729106307
>Where the fuck were you people during crypto?
Probably shitposting like this too.
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>>729106307
crypto is not even close to comparable to the current ai boom we're experiencing
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>>729106307
during crypto gpus only went up maybe 50%, this isn't anywhere near comparable.
You could at least mention 'rona to be slightly less disingenuous
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>>729106538
Identical symptoms, but it's not comparable because, uhhh, I need drama.
Get a fucking grip.
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we're witnessing a huge spike in demand for certain things that will not go on forever unless they somehow make tons of datacenters year after year.
once it settles down, demand will still be higher but not as high. However the prices will NOT go back down since people are STILL going to pay the ridiculous prices, signaling to the companies that theres no need to lower the price back down.
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>>729106142
Where is the proof for this? Does the user post any documentation?
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>>729106532
consoles will be impacted to a lesser extent than us, people who buy consumer grade parts for their custom PC builds.

sony, tendy, and xbox will have greater buying power than us and will get good deals on bulk components to the price hit to consumers of consoles will be less than we experience.

give it a year or two and ram prices will be back to normal. almost every time we see a huge demand followed by a shortage in supply of something, we get a glut/oversupply afterwards.
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>>729106727
This. I don't believe they'd ever do that. They'd get in trouble with the law.
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>>729106142
>buy fake chink ram on alibaba
>post on plebbit for updoots
>a literally who publishes your (((story))) on a dead website
>get 3 comments
>everyone stood up and clapped
many such cases, sad!
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>>729106727
sounds like an amazon scam not corsair
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>>729106330
>Anyone that can afford $999 of RAM is too rich for me to sympathize with.
So lower middle class people with basic bitch jobs?
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>>729106669
Crypto is not comparable because it was only regular people buying the GPU's, now you have private companies using unlimited government funds to buy everything before it even leaves the fuckin silicon mines.
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>>729106705
I can't wait for the data centres to be bombed after Israel has completely decoupled its economy from the west just like Russia circa 1917 when the millionaires fled and left them starving in breadlines.
If you don't think this is a way to centralize the entire western economy into something that can be easily obliterated and destroying us on a global economic level for generations, you're retarded.

We've been told that these data centres are worth tens of billions of dollars because they're full of RAM that went from fifty bucks to nine hundred and fifty bucks in the span of three months because they told us RAM prices went up that high just because.
We have billionaires trading the same billion dollars amongst each other around these fucking data centres and they're saying every single passing of the billion is a billion dollar increase to the dollar value of that initial billion dollars.

We have our entire economy tied up in undefended targets, while the tangible gold and resources have been shipped off when they can be shipped off and sold off when they can't be shipped off.

Those motherfuckers are getting bombed.
Welcome to the breadlines.
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>>729107237
>Anon thinks this is a problem because datacenters can be bombed
You are so young lmao
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>>729107237
the sheer volume of mass surveilance AI has already enabled and will enable in the future will ensure that such bombings won't happen.
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>>729107237
if datacenters in the middle of bumfuck nowhere get bombed we have bigger problems than the economy
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>>729106786
>almost every time we see a huge demand followed by a shortage in supply of something, we get a glut/oversupply afterwards.
Pretty much the only place spinning up DRAM factories is China for their domestic market, which lead to Samsung/SK Hynix stopping production of DRAM modules older than DDR5 due to china not price gouging as hard as they were, which pushes the volatile memory demand further into DDR5 which worsens the shortage.

With Micron/SK/Samsung having been sued for price fixing before, there's little chance they'll actually increase production at all, and instead just collude and ride out their sudden ability to charge hilarious prices with glee.
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>>729107039
imagine still living in 2021
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>>729106142
i cant wait till this shit collapses the entire economy
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>>729107235
>Crypto is not comparable because it was only regular people buying the GPU
Imagine being this new.

All that shit dedicated stems using gpu stacks was bought in bulk by companies, no individual has the power to mine crypto, there was specialized companies driving the price of gpus upward
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>>729107684
It would be stupid to produce more if they can just do nothing and sell what they have for 20x more
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>>729106142
No, we're witnessing the end of home computing
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>>729107821
Anon, a shed with 100 GPU's is not nearly comparable with open AI buying 40% of the entire globe ram production for 5 years.
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>>729107826
Exactly. The line went up without them having to do anything at all, the most handrubbingly-good outcome expected for their shareholders.
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Can't wait for the AI jew to pop.
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>>729107801
yeah man just two more weeks.
if (not when) it does btw YOU are gonna pay for it and not the greedy fucks who caused it.
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>>729106142
ORANGE MAN IS BAD THIS IS THE NEW NARRATIVE WE GOT HIM THIS TIME PC GAMING IS OVER FELLOW GAMERS NEVER SUPPORT ORANGE MAN ANYMORE
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>>729108017
>/s
just for you retard
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>>729106142
>thanks for the 96gb of ram sucker
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>>729108086
feel free to go back
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>rtx 3080
>12700k
>32gbram
>12tb hdd
>4tb ssd
>1440p monitor

haven't upgraded for something like... 4 years? 5? what for? there's absolutely nothing that even utilizes the pc i have currently. most AAA shit is boring, and every AA or indie game that comes out runs like butter. got a steam deck, got a quest 3, pc link cable, like 6 chink handhelds.

let it blow over. i got a backlog going back 45 years. yeah. you read that correctly. 1980 was 45 years ago.
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>>729108071
why'd you start bringing up your pedo king out of nowhere
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>>729106142
This is borderline racist.
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>>729108017
>if (not when)
keep telling yourself that
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>>729106307
crypto increased prices but not by 2000%
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>>729108145
you're probably good for 5 more years if you game on 1080p
long enough for all this to blow over
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>>729107928
This looks like a shed to you, nigger?
People sperged out the same 5 years ago, about climate, price and speculation because EVERYONE even my grandma shilled some shitcoin with dedicated blockchain.

You don't mine crypto as individual anymore, thia stuff is too thick to go though in calculations and need a huge mole of gpus.
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>>729106142
>Went to go check my order history out of curiosity
>The 32 gigs of ram I bought for ÂŁ88 in July is now selling for ÂŁ359
Anon I am so fucking scared
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>>729108418
good news, it can only get better from here
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>>729108360
>This looks like a shed to you, nigger?
No, but those are not GPUs, those are ASIC miners you retarded philistine.
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>>729108360
Yeah faggot it's a shed, here's what a real private funded craze looks like
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>>729108529
Yeah you're right
Thank God there isn't a number bigger than 359
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Once the LLM scam falls apart and people realize actual AI won't come from adding more RAM to chat bots the price will go back down.
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>>729107928
Are we not going to act like 2200g processors going for $400 just so that way people could have a computer that plays some games wasn't just as bad as now? I sold an R9 280 for more than I paid for my RX 580 at that time.
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OpenAI's gonna need to scam a lot more investors to actually pay for those RAM contracts cause they still don't actually make money yet
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>>729106142
I hope you like subscription based cloud gaming
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>>729108017
Not me. I'm a community manager. I will be evicting the people paying for it.
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>>729107235
>it was only regular people buying the GPU
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>>729107235
You have to be over 18 to use 4chan.
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Once again some desperate shill tries to push the cloud gaming angle and once again nobody believes it.
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>>729109168
>anon doesn't remember the time where the US government went to the nvidia HQ and bought all of their GPU's for a decade
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>>729109407
It will get to the point were the amount of stupid morons who don't care will make it profitable to fuck over the consumer, just look at all the concessions console gamers accepted.
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>>729108418
I thought this was only about DDR5, but just in case I bought another 16GB of DDR4 on 27 November (G.Skill Aegis, CL16, 3000MHz). I paid 97 euro. When I bought the first 16GB of the exact same ram 6.5 years ago when I built my current PC, I paid... 102 euro. Yep, it got a bit cheaper.
This convinced me that DDR4 are safe. I checked again just now. 285 euro. 285 euro for 16GB of DDR4. And not even from one of the best manufacturers.
No one is safe any more. But fuck, did I dodge the bullet.
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>>729108692
Xbox 360bros...
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>>729106665
GPUs weren't "50% more expensive" at the time. They were unavailable. There were NO GPUs to buy at the height of shitcoin, all swept minutes after restock. Are you trying to memoryhole this?
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>>729108869
And you could sell any RAM stick you bought a month ago for 5x now. What is your point?
No, the crypto craze can't hold a candle to the AI craze if we go by the numbers and it's not even remotely close.
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>>729109712
They were available in my country, just with increased prices. I think you're mixing things up with COVID shortages.
Also, it had nothing to do with bitcoin, it was ethereum mining.
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>>729108150
Because this is all an obvious attempt to sabotage his economic success. You hate him so much you'd destroy our economy to punish him.
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>>729109712
>GPUs weren't "50% more expensive" at the time. They were unavailable.
That's blatantly a lie though. You could buy them easily from scalpers.
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>>729106142
Why sell something to someone to play digital toys with when it can be used to bring about an a.i god and used for defence etc. Your market isnt needed and is pathetic. Just play a game on your phone if youre that much of a little toddler you need to pway wif a toy goo goo gaa gaa
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>>729109575
Aww fuck
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>>729108360
>>729108071
Watch out we got a true believer on our hands. Look at him go folks.
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>>729106142
how much of this ram going to data centers is ever going to be actually plugged in? most of these places dont even have the power infrastructure to turn on
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>>729108312
i called it when cyberpunk2077 came out and dlss started becoming more common that we would not see any significant true graphical leap and that we'd be hitting a stagnation period. with AAA shit just being truly uninspired trash cash grab live service trash for the lowest common denominator, i could give a fuck less about upgrading. GTA6 might be the only thing that'd make it worth the jump, but i never buy those games when they come out anyway.
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>>729106330
Mine is worth $2.5k now lmao ecks dee
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>>729110208
The burger government is stepping in and giving them carte blanche to go nuts and even make their own power plants if they needed power.
So everything will be plugged in, even if the general populace will have rolling blackouts.
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>>729106307
Crypto wasn't institutionalized like this fucking AI shit is. If you live in america and pay taxes the govt handed your money to big tech with the chips act so they can build more gaytass data centers.
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>The ram sticks i bought in january for 100$ are now 350$
Totally not a gold rush btw, AGI soon, just 2 more datacenters
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>>729106142
The good thing is that if the bubble ever explodes i will be able to buy 64 GB single rams for $25 used kek
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>>729110631
>Buying PC components used
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>>729110631
>AI datacenters parts half life is 2-3 years
They will be nice keychains
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>>729106142
>he got tricked into buying the 0GB package
laughing my fucking ass off
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>>729110268
do you have any more like this anon, i really like it
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I can't believe people are actually falling for these. I can't believe these are actually real. Holy shit lmao.
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>>729107039
It's 2025, no "lower middle class people" with actual bills and responsibilities is dropping $1k on RAM. Maybe if they're mooching off their parents I guess
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>>729110631
>implying this shit isn't going straight to the landfill when it pops
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sorry i would still let tech CEOs rape me in public as long as the corporations do things people i dislike get mad at, anything else would being a KEK!
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>>729111482
those are "dummy kits". they fill the empty holes for aesthetics.
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>>729111482
What the fuck arrives if you buy this?
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>>729108071
>Mentions Zion Don out of nowhere
Miggers just can't help themselves.
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>>729111695
An empty box
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>>729106142
I paid $300 for used DDR4.
This country is finished.
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>>729111482
>0x0 GB
I'll just be smart and order 2x0GB
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>>729111695
They're dummy sticks that just provide the RGB lighting. It's not intended to be a scam, those things actually exist.
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>>729112452
I wonder how many times they "accidentally" ship out dummy RAM to consumers and bank on retarded consumers not checking their RAM after installing it. Seems fishy to me.
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>>729112640
At some point you have to take responsibility on buying RAM sticks that are 10x less the regular price and not expect that something is wrong.
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>>729112983
I'm saying they can "accidentally" ship dummy RAM instead of real RAM even if you paid $1000 for it. Seems to be what happened to this ledditor.
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>>729112640
I'm pretty sure anyone smart enough to build a PC is going to, at some point after booting it up, open some monitoring software at least once to make sure everything is working right. Having half the RAM you're expecting to have is pretty impossible to miss.
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>>729113281
>I'm pretty sure anyone smart enough to build a PC is going to, at some point after booting it up, open some monitoring software at least once to make sure everything is working right.
You overestimate the average retarded consumer.
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>>729113230
I could understand some redditard buying 2x 8gb sticks and one of them is a dud and he never notices, but buying 96gb and not noticing?
c'mon
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>>729113281
How long until they make RAM that reports to the kernel that it has 32GB but is actually 32MB?
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>>729111465
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jruePLnEvMs
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>>729112640
>>729113230
More likely the redditor received the $1000 RAM and replaced the package with dummy RAM so he could get free RAM on Amazon's dime.
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>>729113465
It sounds more like the user sent in his 96 GB kit because he had an issue and had to RMA it. Corsair tried to trick the user by sending him back a dummy kit.
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>>729106142
kek
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>>729107801
The eternal waitfag
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>>729107039
I have clients who work in specialty medicine and make north of $500k a year who wouldn't justify paying $1k for RAM. You'll understand in your next life when you have student loans, two kids, a mortgage, multiple car payments, and are saving for kids' college tuition.
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>>729113573
In that case, that's based. Fuck Amazon and fuck RAM sellers.
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>>729106307
Congrats you're old
People who don't remember the last time something this bad happened were kids when it went down
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>>729108145
do you think pc hardware lasts forever?
they are literally built to break so you'll buy more, just like everything else these days
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Should I sell half my ram for a car? Do I really need both sticks?
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>>729113579
Like how would that ever work
>Consumer sends faulty product back
>We send a cardboard cutout of the product to him
The first thing the guy will to is to double check the whole thing, it would never pass as a scam.
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>>729106307
Everything everyone else said, PLUS now you have companies like Nvidia and Micron cutting their consumer hardware production, while during the crypto nonsense companies were trying to scale up.
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I hope so. Fuck you niggers. The death of pc and console gaming is a good thing.



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