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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

I went to a pc building shop and the price of 64 RAM DDR5 was over $1000. I could have built an entire PC with that price a year ago.

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[-] sundray@lemmus.org 1 points 4 months ago

Is it time to start shucking mini pcs and game consoles?

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

Looks like I'm going to be stuck in 2023 for a long long time...

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[-] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Not a hardware fix, but there's memory compression. It sounds like Windows 11 defaults to having memory compression on:

https://www.xda-developers.com/little-known-windows-feature-hurting-your-pcs-performance-heres-how-can-disable-it/

Linux has zswap and zram to do memory compression, which I've mentioned here recently. I don't know of any distros that turn it on by default. It sounds from recent reading like for modern systems with SSD swap, zswap is probably preferable to zram.

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[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

As a silver lining, you think this could stabilize GPU prices? Or at least CPU prices?

If there's less RAM/SSDs to build PCs with, then people will buy fewer GPUs/CPUs for them.

[-] HereIAm@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

GPUs also need memory. So they aren't escaping this from a consumer POV. Not to mention how production capacity is still being sucked up data centres, but now for AI.

[-] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago

Nvidia is already diverting "midrange" gaming GPU production to AI.

CPUs and motherboards might become cheaper, but I doubt it. Companies are much more willing to sit on inventory these days.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah :(

Still though, Intel has their own fabs not really restricted by any of this. And not as easy to spin down as PCB making. So the CPU is likely to be the cheapest of anything.

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[-] moonburster@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

So do we expect the cost of gpu's to also rise due to this? Some money is opening up and next year I wanted to upgrade anyway. Might just need to buy it earlier

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca -1 points 4 months ago

Top GPUs used to be like 600CAD. Then the covid thing happened and they've never come back down.

[-] DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago

how do you think market socialism would solve this problem?

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