Woo can't wait to not be able to afford it
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Together with unaffordable RAM.
And unaffordable motherboard with only a few ports.
And unaffordable drives
I just checked and I paid $165 for 64 GB of DDR5 in December of 2024. I doubt I'll ever see those prices again.
I paid $105 CAD ($77 USD) for 32GB of DDR4 (2×16GB) in Feb 2023. The same RAM is now $295 CAD, and the cheapest available 2×16GB DDR4 kit is $265 CAD. It's not even DDR5 and it's 2½× the price over 3 years later.
Insanity.
I should really get around to selling my 4TB M.2 SSD I have for my Windows dual boot that I haven't booted in over a year...
Maybe when inflation has gone up?
Please don't remind me — I paid $700 for 64GB of DDR5 😭
Ouch. Better than most prices I've seen lately though
If the new platforms switch to DDR6, can I get some DDR5 at just 2x of the original price, not 4x?
Yes, well, I won't be able to afford that so can I have the turbo button back please
That one made CPUs run at a lower clock speed so that older games would run.
Perhaps the greatest misnomer in computing history.
I'm still salty about the Geforce 4 MX (which was just a slightly modified 2 MX, with none of the features of the newer 4-series), although that's more of a case of false marketing.
On the case we had, it also (or perhaps only) made the fans run faster, which was hilarious.
Were fans even all that common on cases back then? I had a 486 clocked at 100 MHz that only needed the tiniest passive heat spreader - and this was years after turbo buttons were a thing.
Ya, if this hardware hike every decides to end, I'm holding for it. Else I'll just play all these old bangers I missed and keep playing the really good ones I still do. Not to mention all the shit I can emulate that I never beat. There are so many games to keep me busy for the rest of my life, and so many good indie developers that aren't chasing that top tier spec PC on their titles that make really good games.
Cores is bigger news for me. Last gen dies had 6 to 16 cores and now they go 12 to 24.
So, uh, relatively inefficient?
he gets it
they extented produktion of Zen 5 to 2029
Nice, AMD seems to be doing the thing Intel used to do where they hold back their newest tech until Intel gets close and then cold clocks them out of nowhere.
Honestly a bit of turn about is fair play. Intel deserves some shit. Performance has long since past the point 80% of people care or notice. So it's mostly just companies flaunting their dicks at each other. Which is silly to watch.