Fucking piece of shit Sam Altman should be executed on a wooden plank and his corpse should be displayed on a public square for the next 100 years.

I was saving up for building a pc but at this point I’d rather just throw my money in a fire than buy RAM or SSD. Even Apple has better Ram pricing than these goons.

  • Azarova [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    10 months ago

    riding my 10 year old rig till it disintegrates at this point. maybe the silver lining to the AI bubble popping will be that we finally see part prices fall, but nothing cool ever happens so probably not.

  • segfault11 [she/her, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    10 months ago

    wtf happened 😭 i bought 32GB RAM in april and it was like $45. granted it was SODIMM and probably not high performance gaming RAM or whatever but still…

    i looked it up and the kit i got is now $180 😬

  • invo_rt [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Basically, all RAM is manufactured by three companies. RAM pricing operates on a 4~5 year pricing cycle where high prices encourage a increase in production which in turn lowers prices and discourages production which raises prices and so on.

    There hasn’t been much investment to increase overall manufacturing capacity of RAM and the factories to do so aren’t quick to spin up. RAM was already at low prices earlier this year which indicated a decrease in production. Then OpenAI announced they’d be buying 40% of the global RAM supply, a massive amount. This has led to retailers starting to jack up RAM prices. I panic bought a 2x16GB kit for $200 at the beginning of the week. That same SKU is now $400.

    As a warning, this RAM shortage will affect EVERYTHING with RAM in it, GPUs, phones, etc.