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The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Australis13@fedia.io 72 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Frustratingly this is not just affecting the current generation of devices, but the previous one too. DDR4 RAM (which I use in my desktop) has gone up 300% since I bought it a few years ago.

Here's hoping that nobody needs to replace current or previous gen hardware if it breaks in the next 2 years...

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I overbuilt my system when I bought it and am glad I did. I also prioritize heat management.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Yeah so glad I went with 32GB when ram was cheap.

[–] Pazintach@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

I, too, am glad that I added two more RAMs when they were cheap. Hopefully if one of them died, I can still have a decent machine in the foreseeable future.

[–] freebee@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Same. Spent about 65 € I think, now it's looking like > 200 €

[–] Minnels@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I bought some expensive ram back when i bought my current CPU to maximize Factorio and that was about 200 €. Don't even want to know how much it would be today. Also cheaped out and bought 16Gb ram for my home automation server last summer for less than 50€. Regrets hits me now as more would totally be better.

[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah, I maxed the gaming rig (for Cities Skylines) when I should have been maxing the server. I'll be okay. I don't need the extra ram, it's just nice to have a buffer.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah even used ram is going for like 2x-3x the price I bought it at new. I just checked and similar capacity (4x 8GB) at lower speed (3200 compared to 3600) would cost me about 300-400€ now. And I paid about 70-80€ back then

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Me too. But I learned a while back that my cpu or slots are fucked and I can only have one stick installed at a time.

So I'm drowning in RAM that I cannot use. I could sell the RAM and get another motherboard but then I won't have the RAM!

It's not fair.... It's not fair.

[–] smh@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That's so "Gift of the Magi" 😭

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 6 points 5 days ago

Many RAM producers have simply stopped producing DDR4, because it isn't used in data centers.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 days ago

Looking at me 2 x 32GB DDR4 systems 😌