bloody hell... excuse my french!A few months ago I was eying an RTX-5090. Nah, 2200,- is too much (I could afford it, just don't want to pay it). That same card is now 4200,-, almost doubled in price. Should have bought it at 22
So grab it now, because in few months there'll be another "crisis." The price will only go up!
Pretty funny, I like the rams! Red headband, eye-patch, flak-jackets...
DDR3 is pretty old now... I guess that doesn't seem very expensive, but its only going to work in an older machine.
Yes, buying a used SSD, there's always a risk you could pick up a dud that is near end of life. I've inadvertently ended up with a few used SSD's over the years, usually they came inside old thinkpads that I've bought on ebay, but I've been lucky so far, they have all worked ok, that is, the ones that didn't get chucked in the spares box.
Bring on the local FABs... micron, samsung, sk-hynix, etc. I wish the useless UK government would start investing in a chip manufacturing industry here, even little Ireland next door has a booming semi industry while we have nada...
Lets hope some of the gazillions of investment promised for the US will turn out to be real and not just hot air. There are some interesting projects happening in Japan too; rapidus, saimemory...It would mean you're lucky!
I expect no more than what happened with the Micron plant that was supposed to be built...
Oh... has it been canned? The one in new york state? That's a real shame if that's so... I saw an 'asianometry' yt video about the samsung plant in texas, that seemed to having some problems, they've spent billions trying to make the ground vibration stable enough to make chips... anyway, let's hope something good comes out of it.
I don't believe it. If the product prices duplicate due to lack of supply, adding production capacity can't be a problem.
$33 USD is quite cheap for a 16 GB RAM stick, even DDR3. I'm seeing $40-50, even more than $60 USD for same stuff on Amazon. And I'm in the market for DDR5-SODIMM, a 32 GB stick alone runs $300 USD!
I, for one, enjoy seeing this massive supply choke. It means the market has went in full mania and is going to oversupply in response, before the cause of the mania suddenly stops, as they usually do (those trends are unstable). For someone like me who buys their hardware second hand most of the time, this is the promise of a massive buyer market soonish in refurbished markets. When it happens, marketing will try as hard as they can (because their job will literally depend on it) to convince you that the new things are world changers and you can't live without them (DDR8 AI Ready! With PowerTurbo inside, biggest everything you ever seen). Which means even cheaper second-hand hardware for those who resist those sirens.
That wouldn't be the first time indeed I am.
-j 64 ). I would gladly use a recent version of this as my main hardware. If we get flooded with such hardware cheap, there's no reason to use consumer desktops anymore (except, maybe, energy saving).