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abufrejoval Good thing DRAM is either soldered or DIMMs are firmly clipped in: no amount of hoovering ever removed any RAM I bought :LOL: But gently cleaning your system to protect it from dying may be far more important now, since it's so difficult to replace. Perhaps you should combine it with patch days, backup-1, clean/hoover, patch, backup-2 (without deleting backup-2, obviously). Reply
bigdragon I would upgrade from a 5900X to a 9900X3D if the DRAM crisis wasn't a thing. I've been seeing deals show up for the CPU, but the RAM I'd need costs more than the CPU and motherboard combined. I'm going to sit on the sidelines until the industry gets its house in order and the scalpers get burned. Reply
vanadiel007 Scalpers never get really burned. We have seen this in the past. The industry does not really want to address the scalper issue, because to them money is money. Reply
80251 I remember the cryptocurrency driven GPU crisis around the time of ampere featured the same kind of shenanigans and is the whole reason I had to wait until Ada to upgrade my 1080ti. It would be nice to hear some good news once in a while… Reply
Shiznizzle 80251 said: I remember the cryptocurrency driven GPU crisis around the time of ampere featured the same kind of shenanigans and is the whole reason I had to wait until Ada to upgrade my 1080ti. It would be nice to hear some good news once in a while… I had a 1060 6gb and had to wait till the near end of the 3000 series to get my 3060 12 gb for 330 pounds. Turns out it was a 3000 series dumping sale on amazon since about 3 weeks after i bought my card the 4000 series came out and a light bulb went off. I stayed with the 3060 till last summer when i got a 9060 xt 16gb for 379 pounds. Standard 9060's were at teh time 330 but i got a sapphire nitro due to reviews. And it was worth it. Same card now is nearly 400. Was 480 only a few months ago so things are coming "down". Reply
abufrejoval bigdragon said: I would upgrade from a 5900X to a 9900X3D if the DRAM crisis wasn't a thing. I've been seeing deals show up for the CPU, but the RAM I'd need costs more than the CPU and motherboard combined. I'm going to sit on the sidelines until the industry gets its house in order and the scalpers get burned. I can only compare 5800X and 5800X3D to 7945HX and 7950X3D/7945HX3D. Both the generational uplift and the V-Cache effect aren't nearly as noticable as benchmarking in niche conditions seem to indicate, unless you live and game in that specific niche and winning pays the rent. In my case it's mostly the GPUs and resolutions that determine performance, my primary displays are 4k and a KVM decides who feeds those screens. There are obviously differences between the 5950X (no V-cache) with an RTX 5070ti and the 7950X3D with an RTX 4090 with some games. But with many others the 144Hz refresh limit of the monitor limits may be reached by either, or even the big GPU isn't enough to get there. So enjoy your games, chances are you're not really missing that much with that upgrade anyway, CPU power isn't such a big factor in gaming as you might be led to believe. Reply
logainofhades bigdragon said: I would upgrade from a 5900X to a 9900X3D if the DRAM crisis wasn't a thing. I've been seeing deals show up for the CPU, but the RAM I'd need costs more than the CPU and motherboard combined. I'm going to sit on the sidelines until the industry gets its house in order and the scalpers get burned. Yea, unless you live near a Microcenter, or catch a good Newegg combo deal, it can be difficult to get ram right now. Reply
Key considerations
- Investor positioning can change fast
- Volatility remains possible near catalysts
- Macro rates and liquidity can dominate flows
Reference reading
- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/dram-bots-reportedly-being-deployed-to-hoover-up-memory-chips-and-components-one-operation-ran-10-million-web-scraping-requests-hitting-ddr5-ram-product-pages-every-6-5-seconds#main
- https://www.tomshardware.com
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