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I went to a pc building shop and the price of 64 RAM DDR5 was over $1000. I could have built an entire PC with that price a year ago.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    17 days ago

    As a silver lining, you think this could stabilize GPU prices? Or at least CPU prices?

    If there’s less RAM/SSDs to build PCs with, then people will buy fewer GPUs/CPUs for them.

    • HereIAm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      17 days ago

      GPUs also need memory. So they aren’t escaping this from a consumer POV. Not to mention how production capacity is still being sucked up data centres, but now for AI.

    • howrar@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      17 days ago

      There’s high demand for both RAM and GPUs coming from datacenters. Us regular consumers are just a tiny blip on their radar.

    • SapphironZA@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      16 days ago

      Nvidia is already diverting “midrange” gaming GPU production to AI.

      CPUs and motherboards might become cheaper, but I doubt it. Companies are much more willing to sit on inventory these days.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        16 days ago

        Yeah :(

        Still though, Intel has their own fabs not really restricted by any of this. And not as easy to spin down as PCB making. So the CPU is likely to be the cheapest of anything.