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[–] 72 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    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 cold storage (hard drive at a friend's house in a different state). When it goes I'm cooked.

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    [–] 60 points 2 months ago

    This must be what it feels like to have bought a house in the 1970s

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  • [–] 48 points 2 months ago

    People who built 32+gb ram systems in 2026:

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  • [–] 28 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    256 GB DDR4 here, kinda considering selling some of it now...

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    Wow, what'd you get all that for? Opening 5+ Chrome tabs?

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Dont tell me you also brought storage while it was cheap. At least lie and say you got cooked on that.

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  • 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.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 18 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Fuck me, I just got my friend's ASRock Z97 Extreme 4. Does it not handle pairs well?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    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

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago*

    64Gb gang shout out!

    Edit: Its now an investment!

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I live in fear one of the memories will stop working

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    [–] 10 points 2 months ago*

    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

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    My friend who built 128GB home server in 2024.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    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)

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    [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Decommissioned VM host my company was getting ready to toss out.

    It's all DDR4, but even that shit is expensive now.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    128GB DDR4 3080TI rig from 2022 still going strong, I feel I timed this well.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Back in '22 I bought 64gb of ram because I wanted to have all my slots populated. For aesthetic purposes.

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    [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    I bought my machine a week before the true ramocalypse. Prices were high, and 128GB of RAM was like 30% of my budget already, but literally the following week prices rose to the point that I would not have been able to afford any of that

    Fuck AI

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Shit fam, i got 64gb of corsair DDR 3 dimms I ain't even using

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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

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I got rather lucky with my purchase timing, tho I was just getting more RAM to deal with my 1300 Firefox tabs.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    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?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago*

    Bought 128GB for €140 a couple years back, amazing deal looking back.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    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 :(

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Being in IT, post server build eyeing up the left over ecc

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    I have a glorious 32GB of overclocked DDR3, how lucky am I.

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    [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I'm in this image!

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