And those of us with servers pray every day a stick won't fail. But at least people can talk to robots and make slop on demand...
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My NAS is starting to act up and I have no idea what I'm going to do. I've got it all backed up but it's basically deep could storage (hard drive at a friend's house in a different state). When it goes I'm cooked.
Yeah a drive failure is my biggest worry now. 12TB drives aren't cheap. Luckily I got an extra when prices started going up as a warm backup.
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This must be what it feels like to have bought a house in the 1970s
People who built 32+gb ram systems in 2026:
Bought 128 gb DDR4 and a 7900 XT... that system quite literally sits in my basement as my main driver is a Linux laptop with an external monitor. So busy with work and school that gaming took a backseat.
I can take it off your hands if you wanna clear up some space in your basement 😃
Dont tell me you also brought storage while it was cheap. At least lie and say you got cooked on that.
I definitely failed on that end. Lol. I got like two 1tb nvme's before prices went mad and I stupidly decided to build a media server. That's another machine that currently sits unused... Mostly because it's empty. Lol. One nvme is in my laptop. The other went to my daughter.
256 GB DDR4 here, kinda considering selling some of it now...
Your RAM accidentally became a retirement fund.
Wow, what'd you get all that for? Opening 5+ Chrome tabs?
The pc (server) was used, and the seller asked 100$ to double it from 128 GB to 256 GB.
More space for CFD and path tracing, and for personnal projects. Also it's fun to install games to a ramdisk for a laugh.
...and to finally install all the Cities Skylines and Rimworld mods.
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I bought a 22 tb drive the very day that dumb orangutan first threatened tarrifs. The price has more than doubled since then.
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Grieve with me, I just lost a ram stick so it's down to 24. Possibly less depending on my Asrock's ability to manage 3 instead of 2 pairs
Fuck me, I just got my friend's ASRock Z97 Extreme 4. Does it not handle pairs well?
No no pairs are good, using a ram without its store bought pair is bad. I don't know enough about ASRock boards to give a specific answer but Ram that's sold in pairs generally doesn't work as well individually because modern boards apparently divide work between them in specific ways.
I need to read about how our boards (mine's b550m) work regarding that but I'll dm you whatever I find
Just decided to reply in case anyone else doesn't know. Tom's Hardware and a few different mb manufacturer websites say motherboards opt for Dual Channel ram management, if you have an uneven number it will still use them all on a single channel mode which is slower but not as badly as if you had mixed RAM parts
I have three 32gb ddr5 PCs, trying to sell one for $600 but crypto bros keep offering $350 because "Chatgpt said so"
Price is 900 for mentioning ai
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64GB DDR5 and a Rx 7800 xt and 2TB m.2 for less than 1k before windows cut off win10 support. I use it for streaming and factorio and arch isos
64Gb gang shout out!
Yeah... I built my wife a machine with 64 GB of RAM in ~October of 25 right before the prices spiked. Really kicking myself for not going all in and building a NAS setup at that same time. I can't realistically bring myself to purchase 4tb hard drives or ram at this point - it's too damn expensive.
(She's running fedora silver blue)
I built a nas and bought my wife a 64gb laptop eoy 2025. considereing myself lucky.
must have picked up like 6 4tb nvme drives and bunch of rust drives
I got 32tb like a month before shit started blowing up. I didn't really need it at the time but the price was good so I jumped on it. So glad I did.
I really want to go in for a nas, but fuck.... I guess I'll get by with my motley collection of external hard drives...
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My friend who built 128GB home server in 2024.
128GB DDR4 3080TI rig from 2022 still going strong, I feel I timed this well.
I did my rebuild before January 2025 cause I thought DJT was going to fuck up world trade, I underestimated how shitty the AI Bros are.
I have 16GB of VRAM too, baybee.
I bought my somewhat high-end PC in late 2025, two months before RAMageddon. Two people advised me against it. They said it wasn't a good time to buy because prices were already a bit high. I'm glad I didn't follow their advice.
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Back in '22 I bought 64gb of ram because I wanted to have all my slots populated. For aesthetic purposes.
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Decommissioned VM host my company was getting ready to toss out.
It's all DDR4, but even that shit is expensive now.
I just bought 24gb of ram (I work in IT and it's always good to have some extra 8gb sticks).
it got stolen since the USPS delivery person couldn't be bothered to follow directions and leave it inside. and I can't get my money back :(
"94 bytes should be enough for anyone"
~(yes, I can see the -g option)~
I keep telling my wife that. She's not buying it
Bought 128GB for €140 a couple years back. Costs more than 2k now.
I know it. Super wish I had more than 16GB these days. I even added enough to max out my system to my Amazon wish list back when it was cheap. Should have pulled the trigger when I had the chance. Not doing so will be my greatest deathbed regret.
I upgraded to 64GB which I don't really need, just because it was cheap.
Now it's looking like this is going to be my forever system because affordability is dead.
Same. At least so far my 64GB RAM, 7700X, and 6700XT has been more than plenty for the games that I play.
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Bought a new laptop in 2022 and the upgrade from 32 to 64gb was laughably cheap compared to the rest of the laptop, so I just did it for the fun of it
Nowadays I think I could buy most of the laptop just from the resale price of the ram
Shit fam, i got 64gb of corsair DDR 3 dimms I ain't even using
I'm in this image!
My friend always had our hand me down pc's and parts. One day he texted me, saying he wants to build his own pc and send me some infos. I said it looks fine and all. He asked if he should wait for black friday. I told him no, because we're not in amerikkka and it doesn't make a big difference if all. I thought i should build a new pc too, because mine was just as outdated, and bought my parts. By the time i have ordered and picked them up, the guy behind the counter was already like: ufff holy shit, saved some mobey there huh?
Lucky me bought 768GB shortly before it went up. For my server and gaming-rig. Now the ram alone would nearly have paid the whole 2 PCs. Jeez. Fuck you all.
I hate myself for thinking that "no, I don't need an upgrade just because, I'm fine with what I have" one year ago (and I was also hesitant because of the dying CPUs on AM5). 32 ain't cutting it for me any more, I'm aiming for 96 or 128, but definitely not before this whole thing blows over.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
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