RAM prices are ridiculous

I'm watching cellphone prices like a hawk. My Poco X8 Pro I bought two weeks ago for R8950.00 is now listing on Amazon here for up to R15 000..........

And the 12G/528G that I've got is mostly out of stock.

The RAM madness is just beginning.
 
Haha I upgraded my kids desktops to 128gb each (4x32gb DDR5), and all they play is Roblox hahahaha. For future proofing. Bought some spare 32gb modules, and now packed it in my safe. Its like the next gold bars :)

My brother built up a pc for his gaming son, and had a heart attack pretty much.

Still seems to be DDR5 pricing mainly, but the NVME is also up a bit.

Have to say graphics cards dont seem to have been affected much.
 
So we are here.

https://africa.businessinsider.com/...ing-memory-costs-and-pc-weakness-bite/fmqxyyc

https://www.theverge.com/news/839353/pc-ram-shortage-pricing-spike-news

https://wccftech.com/ddr5-ram-prices-skyrocket-761-in-a-year-in-japan/

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/08/18/202210/memory-prices-climb-500-in-12-months

https://www.pcbgogo.com/Article/pcb-price-increase.html

https://www.z2data.com/insights/a-p...-driving-pcb-prices-up-and-availability-down/

And then Intel is cutting production on consumer CPU's so that that they can focus on server CPU's

www.eteknix.com

AI Demand Forces Intel to Cut PC CPU Production and Prioritize Xeon Processors

Like many other companies, Intel is shifting resources planned for its Panther Lake architecture to its Xeon processors for data centers. Intel has decided to reorganize its production lines to give…
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gogga_ said:
I'm watching cellphone prices like a hawk. My Poco X8 Pro I bought two weeks ago for R8950.00 is now listing on Amazon here for up to R15 000..........

And the 12G/528G that I've got is mostly out of stock.

The RAM madness is just beginning.
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Just beginning? It's been going for over a year already.
 
Wut said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/2117001327410905345
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How can you as a human being even think of saying something like this and not think you are going to come across as an emotionless, uncaring, selfish and entitled billionaire.
Some rich people really don't give a crap about the average person and see themselves as a higher class of people above us. It really is quite scary who is running the world.
 
OutlawJoseyWales said:
How can you as a human being even think of saying something like this and not think you are going to come across as an emotionless, uncaring, selfish and entitled billionaire.
Some rich people really don't give a crap about the average person and see themselves as a higher class of people above us. It really is quite scary who is running the world.
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What? The same con artist who said bad things must happen for AI to evolve offended you guys now?

Were you guys not offended before? Why not?

Where you guys offended when his sister accused him of sexual assault? Why not?

Are you guys offended that the above is omitted from Google AI training? Why not? I thought AI knows everything. It displays results only. It does not display an AI summary.

Were you guys offended when Nvidia created this mess?

Were you guys offended when the RAM cartel did?

This whole thing is a planned circle-jerk. Nvidia is literally giving Open AI the funds to buy their hardware.

They are trading between themselves under protection of the orange man.

No. They don't want you owning RAM. They want all of it. They want your subscription to lend you some.

Be offended more often.
 
Rayne said:
What? The same con artist who said bad things must happen for AI to evolve offended you guys now?

Were you guys not offended before? Why not?

Where you guys offended when his sister accused him of sexual assault? Why not?

Are you guys offended that the above is omitted from Google AI training? Why not? I thought AI knows everything. It displays results only. It does not display an AI summary.

Were you guys offended when Nvidia created this mess?

Were you guys offended when the RAM cartel did?

This whole thing is a planned circle-jerk. Nvidia is literally giving Open AI the funds to buy their hardware.

They are trading between themselves under protection of the orange man.

No. They don't want you owning RAM. They want all of it. They want your subscription to lend you some.

Be offended more often.
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Calm down, we get it and most probably agree with you.

My point backs up what you are saying.....
 
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