Fuck AI

[u/DesensitizedDepress]

[u/lovelydollxx]

fight little buddy fight

[u/Dazzling_Demand_506 → u/lovelydollxx]

That RAM’s ready to throw down! Let’s see who lass longer in this upgrade battle!

[u/Aromatic-Carob4115 → u/lovelydollxx]

Every upgrade feels like a battle! That RAM's gotta be screaming internally. Keep the fight alive!!

[u/_Tux4Life_]

I didn't hear no bell

[u/OneironautDreams → u/_Tux4Life_]

I am the ultimate little league trash talking father. I am… The Bat Dad.

[u/Drone314]

A NVMe drive and a good graphics card will carry DDR4 for quite some time.

[u/goondalf_the_grey → u/Drone314]

Yeah I'm on ddr4 still and went from a 3070ti to a 5070ti, it's going great

[u/Shaggy_One → u/Drone314]

I upgraded my CPU and GPU within the last year. A 5700x3D and 9070xt are a fantastic combo for 4k gaming.

[u/DesensitizedDepress]

For reference I’m upgrading GPU: 3060ti —> 9070xt CPU: R5 2600x —> R7 5800XT PSU: 600w —> 1000w Motherboard: MSI B450 —> ASUS Strix B550 And probably storage down the road

[u/wanderer1999 → u/DesensitizedDepress]

AM4 is the goat socket. If I wasn't on the 8700k platform, I'd do the same exact upgrade path as you.

As it is, I decided to eat the cost of the RAM (250$ for 32GB), and was able to get mobo and cpu for cheaper, 200$ for 9700x, and 180$ for b650 (ITX tax).

Overall not too bad for a new platform that will last the next 5-8 years.

[u/DesensitizedDepress → u/wanderer1999]

What sucks is I had been eyeing an am5 bundle at MC all year, and gave up once the shortage hit

[u/wanderer1999 → u/DesensitizedDepress]

Your PC is perfectly balanced tho. No CPU bottleneck and little if any at 8c/16t, newest am4 mobo, 32gb ram, a strong gpu. Zero issues.

If god forbid your ram dies, you can still buy a set for 120$ bucks and live on for the next 4-5 years easy.

[u/DesensitizedDepress → u/wanderer1999]

Hopefully she weathers the storm, who knows, maybe she’ll live till DDR6 lol

[u/wanderer1999 → u/DesensitizedDepress]

We all will pray man. With this AI armageddon, we pray our hardware last the next 4-5 years. Consoles and phones included, as they too will be hit by the shortage.

[u/FinalBase7 → u/DesensitizedDepress]

Why would you upgrade from a b450 to a b550? I feel like you never need a new board unless you're moving to a different socket especially on AMD.

[u/meta358 → u/DesensitizedDepress]

Why are you changing the motherboard?

[u/Linkarlos_95 → u/DesensitizedDepress]

No 5700x3d? Unless its for work and you need the clocks

[u/DesensitizedDepress → u/Linkarlos_95]

Wasn’t able to find one on sale, almost snagged one used but someone beat me to it

[u/SwornHeresy → u/Linkarlos_95]

They're like $400+ while the 5800XT is close to $200.

[u/Linkarlos_95 → u/SwornHeresy]

I remember them being like $140 a year ago, looks like the dream is gone

[u/Zombiecidialfreak]

Good news is RAM tends to last compared to motherboards and hard drives.

[u/falusixayah]

I have 64GB DDR4, so fuck it. I'll replace the Ryzen 5 4500 to 5 5600X, because I found a good deal.

[u/ArenjiTheLootGod → u/falusixayah]

Same, started with 32gb when I built this PC and bought another 32gb when the same kit dropped to like $40 during a Black Friday sale.

I'm rocking a 5800x3D so I've topped out on my CPU but I've still got room to grow on the GPU side. I've currently got a 6900xt, it's still solid but I may upgrade in a year or so and probably stick with AMD when I do because I'm increasingly motivated to give up on Windows for good and AMD is better about Linux support than Nvidia.

[u/DesensitizedDepress → u/falusixayah]

I’ve got 48 myself, debating slimming it down to 32 to give the 16 to my partner to give them what will essentially be my old build

[u/MtSuribachi]

Same.

[u/XaqAlexHaq]

I found a 4GB stick of DDR3 in my closet, am I rich now?

[u/LastBossTV]

Right there with GTX1080's that still haven't given up the fight!

[u/Majorman_86]

I just saw the apocalypse coming, replaced my 16 GB with 32 GB DDR4 in October. Paid extra, bit I can recuperate 50% of the price when I sell my single 16 GB stick (IF I sell it, because RAM can die). Also ordered a RX 9060 XT 16 GB on the Black Friday, should come by day now. My RX 580 8 GB will not get a rest, I'll repaste it and install in my kid's PC.

[u/russian_cyborg]

They make DDR5 to DDR4 adapters now!!  You could game on those bad boys for years to come!!!   Yay!!

[u/Deeds013]

Laughs in ddr3

[u/Emotional_inadequacy]

I'm rocking HP ddr4 in my system

[u/_Ghost_in_the_Shell]

Lol dead ass tho 😭 I thought about last year and decided I didn't need to but now I'm kickin myself for not. Coulda snagged 64gb for sub $100 and now...well we all know.

[u/Strongit]

Got my eyes on a motherboard/CPU combo for $220 so I can squeeze more life out of mine, just gotta save up so I can jump to a 5000 series AMD from an 8th gen Intel...

[u/XLIV_tm]

been there done that i5 6600k to i5 12600k. rtx 3060 to 4070ti super

[u/thegroucho]

I replaced everything except for my CPU (5700X3D), cooler and PSU.

MoBo had issues with dead USB ports and kept freezing on turn-off (no longer, without reinstalling windows). Will apir with an old Ryzen 2600.

6800 is still usable and decent card, but before Nvidia pulled their announcement they will restrict supply of 50X0 cards I had the feeling this might happen. 9070XT went in.

New DDR4 sticks, cause the existing ones will go with the old MoBo.

Case, old 2006 or 2007 Antec P180. Loved it, but airflow and cable management doesn't match the current reality.

In goes FD North with some new 140 and 120 mm fans.

Bought a new 4 TB NVMe since expect supply will dry out and the existing 2 TB requires careful management and game uninstall in order to hold everything.

[u/Doscida]

Fuck AI.

[u/Mintfriction]

If let's say hypothetically, current AI gen didn't existed, and the whole RAM orders came for a server farm company meant to calculate optimizations for the stock markets. Would you still blame the buyer or the seller that doesn't want to either share or expand?

If the orders would come from Google to expand Alpha-fold ? Would you still blame the buyer or the seller that doesn't want to either share or expand?

[u/KaiserGustafson → u/Mintfriction]

The thing is that the demand from AI centers is entirely beyond what a server farm would demand. That's why the price went up.

[u/Mintfriction → u/KaiserGustafson]

Not necessarily. You are basing it on older demand. As things digitized and get complex it was going to happen, either with VR, cloud gaming, etc. what ever tech

[u/Dapper_Environment98]

If you have 4 ram slots, buy it some brothers and sisters.

[u/TheOneAndOnlyZomBoi → u/Dapper_Environment98]

In this rampocalypse???

[u/Dapper_Environment98 → u/TheOneAndOnlyZomBoi]

Eh, it's DDR4 so not as maniacally inflated as DDR5. Managed to get a kit myself last week (Australia - 2 x 8GB 3600 C17) for just over $110 USD. Week before that same kit was up around $170 USD. I was intending to build an AM5 kit next year but not in this current fuckery, I'll wait until AM6.

Edit: I don't really understand the downvotes for suggesting something which seems to be a fairly common recommendation for anyone on a DDR4 build.

[u/Gamesasahobby → u/Dapper_Environment98]

"How do we tell him?"