Just in time for all those windows PCs that MS is trying to force people to upgrade
this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2025
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Indeed awful. AFAIU, it is stockpiling HBM memory ahead of next generation "GPUs", rather than existing product volume. I'm especially disgusted that prices in non-tariff countries are higher than in US. If this were to last, gddr5/6 computer ram would start to make sense. NVIDIA has been behind starving memory supplies for competing platforms (usually AMD) in the past.
This pricing is both huge inflation, but also huge drop in sales, because we have to wait for it to get sensible.
Doesn't Windows 11 in practice require even more memory than Windows 10 to operate with decent performance?
Meanwhile my Linux gaming PC seems to actually use less memory than back when it was a Windows machine.
My work laptop was upgraded to Windows 11 and performance has severely suffered.
As someone who usually uses 3 monitors (sometimes 4) and does GIS, it's an issue.
Oh yeah. If you've got 4 GB ram, win 11 is going to absolutely skullfuck that machine.
Are you using scaling?
On my work laptop dragging a window from one monitor to the next would make them "snag" in between borders as they struggled and stuttered trying to change the scale.
It looked soooo fucking stupid I couldn't believe my eyes
You can tell just by the fan noise or monitoring cpu usage. Win 11 uses more cpu regularly.
I’m not sure if it’s bad, because they changed other things too like the start menu, and it’s less responsive.
Single app performance is about the same as 10.
Many such moments with the PCs at work. I can't wait to retire and never have to deal with anything modern again. What absolute dogshit and slop computers have become.
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soon the bubble will burst and RAM will be so cheap! (I hope)
I don't think the bubble bursting will slow AI that much, it'll just be a round of hot potatoe over, the losers will lose their money and others will come in hoping to be profitable since they can skip a bunch of R&D costs.
AI is overhyped, but just like the internet after the dotcom bubble burst, it's not going anywhere.
Plus I suspect that this time will be a dollar collapse rather than stock market collapse, which would mean prices would go up even more.
Buy one RAM and you get two GPUs thrown in for free!
It always does. I remember buying my DDR4 RAM 200€, and two months later the same kit was 550€. Some month later it was back at 220€.
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RAM prices fluctuate but always return to normal pretty fast, at least compared to gpus and cpus
Genuine question here, for a "normal" computer user, say somebody who :
- browses the Web
- listens to music, play videos, etc
- sometimes plays video games, even 2025 AAAs and already has a GPU relatively recent and midrange, say something from e.g. 2020
- even codes something of a normal size, let's say up to Firefox size (which is huge)
... which task does require more than say 32Go?
If by normal you average, they don't even really need 16gb.
Creative work can gobble up ram, heavy ass multitasking does as well.
So it's more in the digitally productive professional or hobbyist cases where you need such amounts as a person.
For development high amounts of rams can be useful for all sorts of stuff, it's not just compiling, but also testing, though 32 is often enough.
You probably dont but 32gb ddr5 is minimum 200$ right now for the slowest.
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