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The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about (www.theverge.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

All the ram being bought up is going to end up in the 2nd hand market as the hardware is all liquidated out. The prices will crash, and despite manufacturers not increasing their productions lines to build more ram, will still have to compete against themselves from the used market, meaning they won't be able to keep trying to charge crazy high prices.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The problem is it's manufacturing capacity that is being bought. They're going to use that capacity to build HBM modules and data centre GPUs that cannot run outside of specialized servers. There will be a lot of high end gear gathering dust, but nothing you or I can use.

    Maybe if you're a large business/enterprise you could get some hardware on the cheap during the crash, but it's not ot like those things are full of DDR5 DIMMs and RTX GPUs.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Well that sucks. I dug into your info a bit as well, and it seems true. Registered ecc ram that servers tend to use won't work on consumer desktops.

    Good thing I don't plan on upgrading my PC for at least a few more years.

    As a side note, I'm pissed off the ram and storage inventory issue has delayed Valves new steam VR headset release. I've never bought VR anything before and was looking forward to it.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    It's not even ECC RAM that's the issue, it's that they're not making DDR ram at all, it's HBM RAM which is totally different. That and the GPUs are custom solutions that slot into specialty liquid cooled server chassis with proprietary connecters and everything. It's simply not for anything except for it's current purpose in a server.

    I know how you feel, it's too bad this is impacting Valve. I really want their new controller which won't be hit by this, but I expect they're still going to wait and release it with the other products.

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