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tennis2 Might as well just cancel consumer CPUs now. RAM is so expensive nobody can afford to build a PC. We'll all be renting remote desktop from AI server farms. Reply
Stomx Big tech will spend soon trillions on AI creating hardware crisis. You pay for your hardware, fine, pay also for the price hikes for regular consumers and small businesses affected by your madness actions. Let's you take the responsibility. Where are consumers protection advocates? Consumers should just send the difference in price invoice to big tech and the manufacturers exploding from the fat to compensate for RAM, SSD and HD price hikes since some date say February-May 2025. How about this, Elon Mask? Reply
Stomx tennis2 said: Might as well just cancel consumer CPUs now. RAM is so expensive nobody can afford to build a PC. We'll all be renting remote desktop from AI server farms. Yea, last year I was building/rebuilding some HPC systems for the simulations, got the top AMD chips which at that time were the major part of the investment and a half of that now collecting the dust because it is the RDIMMs costing 7x more which are today by far the major investment Soon we will see the ads like this: "Buy the full set of 24 64GB RDRAM modules and get your choice AMD or Intel two server chips and the dual motherboard for free" Reply
usertests tennis2 said: Might as well just cancel consumer CPUs now. RAM is so expensive nobody can afford to build a PC. We'll all be renting remote desktop from AI server farms. RAM prices appear to have peaked, and you can get a 16 GB DDR5 kit for around $220 new, or under $200 used. 32 GB DDR5 kits start at $330. While it's not good, and it makes DDR5-only platforms less attractive, it's also not the end of personal computing. You might be looking at 25-40% higher build cost from a year ago, on the higher end if you must have a new 16 GB GPU (9060 XT 16 GB is creeping towards $450, 5060 Ti 16GB is well over $500). If all you need is a computer capable of doing basic work, any 4-6 core DDR4 CPU from the last 10 years is fine, and you can find relevant systems in the $100-250 range. Sub-$100 used GPUs with 4-8 GB VRAM can play PS4-era games, easier-to-run/esports games, and some of the newer games. For example, here's what you could do with an RX 580 8 GB (about $70-80 on ebay). You may have to tighten your belt, but there is no reason to rent desktops in the cloud. Reply
txfeinbergs You are doing it wrong. You don't build PCs anymore. You buy them. I just bought this Alienware for $3000 less than what it would take to build the same PC. https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/cty/pdp/spd/alienware-area-51-aat2265-gaming-desktop#services-tab $4799 (that isn't even counting the $300 in Dell reward points you get) for an RTX 5090, 32GB 6400MT RAM, 1500 Watt Power Supply, a case built like a tank, 2 TB Gen 5 SSD, and a Ryzen 9950X3D. The cheapest you can even buy an RTX 5090 right now is around $3500. Reply
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