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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

TBF that is a crucial ram stick in the picture, those are rare shinies now

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not at microcenter. Their bundles are full of crucial chips. Just built one for a buddy last week.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I more meant now they're not being made because Micron recently killed the Crucial brand to focus supply towards data center customers

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[–] melfie@lemy.lol 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

2026 is going to suck for hardware, but 2027 might be better if this nonsense blows over. For one thing, AMD’s RDNA 5 was announced for 2027, which is supposed to be more comparable to Nvidia for compute workloads, including real RTX cores. AMDs recent SoCs have been pretty impressive, so I’m looking forward to AMD SoCs that are competitive with Nvidia discrete GPUs beyond just rasterization, except without artificially constrained VRAM and lower power requirements.

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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 18 points 2 days ago

The DDR4 sticks I got 18 months ago now cost 300-400% the price they were, so it's not just DDR5.

... and I just realised the title doesn't actually mean "DDR5 prices", but that was an easy misinterpretation on my part, so I guess I'll post this anyway.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My RAM kit is worth more than my GPU 🥲

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Just check, GPUs are also skyrocketing.

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[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The 64gb memory i bought in june are up 400%

Still cheaper than my macbook air though

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[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Apple: see!? We do not inflate our ram prices!!!

[–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 days ago

I used to scavenge all the ram I needed from the trash, nothing in months

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Cost me 200eur towards the end of 2023. Crazy, I'd sell it if I didn't need it.

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (4 children)

This is the future ~~liberals~~ no one wants.

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[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

You know at this point people are probably gonna start insuring their RAM...

[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club 4 points 2 days ago

I can't believe I snagged strix halo 128GB ram mini PC for 1600$ when it first came out

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