What's up with SSD & Ram Prices?
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Przepraszam
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PostPosted: Tue, 4th Nov 2025 10:37    Post subject: What's up with SSD & Ram Prices?
Bought this kit for $149 on 10/2024 and now it's up to $500!!!
https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-trident-z5-neo-rgb-series-64gb-ddr5-6000-cas-latency-cl30-desktop-memory-black/p/N82E16820374445?Item=N82E16820374445

4TB NVME I got was $180 and now hovers around $300.

Prices have gone mad! When will AI Bubble Burst? Sad

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PickupArtist




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PostPosted: Tue, 4th Nov 2025 12:39    Post subject:
welcome to the ai and data center bubble. at least bitcoin wankers losing today is my only little smile

gotta love how open ai fella doesnt want any more questtions about revenue and profitability .... cracks are forming. time to go MEGAPOOF
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Stormwolf




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PostPosted: Tue, 4th Nov 2025 13:02    Post subject:
What cracks? Ai will not go anywhere. It'll only increase and increase.
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friketje




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PostPosted: Tue, 4th Nov 2025 13:06    Post subject:
It’s just a matter of time for chips and hardware to become a commodity cause of the slow speed of innovation. But there is always something new distirbing the market, first COVID, now AI. Imho we will all be using cheap standard mini pc’s soon. Something like the new Xbox for instance.
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Stormwolf




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PostPosted: Tue, 4th Nov 2025 13:26    Post subject:
What will be high end is going to get very costly. Nvidia etc can certqinly afford having plebs buy low end shite
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friketje




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PostPosted: Tue, 4th Nov 2025 14:10    Post subject:
No high end will be worth shit. Chips can’t become any smaller. You’ll see less gains with every generation so low end will catch up. A high end pc will simply be poor value so prices will drop or high end will just cease to exist. 80%+ of semi prices is margin. ASML makes 50 gross profit. Tsmc makes 50 gross profit, nvidia makes 80% gross profit. Without worthwhile innovation and scarcity, prices can drop a lot.
Innovation will go a bit further for data centers but you can’t fit those chips in a pc case cause of the power need and heat generated.
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Stormwolf




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PostPosted: Tue, 4th Nov 2025 16:27    Post subject:
You're absolutely wrong. Ai farms will snap up all the expensive chips and you'll be left with the scraps
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PickupArtist




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PostPosted: Tue, 4th Nov 2025 18:45    Post subject:
guess what, scraps from 10 years ago can still game perfectly fine in full hd .. its the software they refuse to update holding it back these cockroaches and ofcourse pispoor optimization. fuck unreal engine
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Frant
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PostPosted: Tue, 4th Nov 2025 18:59    Post subject:
Stormwolf wrote:
You're absolutely wrong. Ai farms will snap up all the expensive chips and you'll be left with the scraps


..and the scraps will be sold to us for 5 times the normal price.


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Stormwolf




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PostPosted: Tue, 4th Nov 2025 19:06    Post subject:
Frant wrote:
Stormwolf wrote:
You're absolutely wrong. Ai farms will snap up all the expensive chips and you'll be left with the scraps


..and the scraps will be sold to us for 5 times the normal price.


You're not wrong. Scraps will also be bought up by scalpers. Fortunately we're at a standstill with graphics. One more generation and you'll be set for many years i believe. Hopefully that generation is affordable.
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Frant
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PostPosted: Tue, 4th Nov 2025 19:20    Post subject:
We can always hope. I'm not that hopeful though. They've got no reason to make their stuff affordable since they can still sell their super-overpriced stuff to us while we angrily mumble and complain about the ridiculously high prices. They're used to making record profits every year and have no intention of willingly lower those profits.


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Stormwolf




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PostPosted: Tue, 4th Nov 2025 19:50    Post subject:
Of course. Had we been their only market then the prices would be alright. But cryptofags changed the market and now AI will increase the problem since they take it to yet another level.
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FireMaster




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PostPosted: Tue, 4th Nov 2025 23:09    Post subject:
This is just the start with AI. Now it's SSD's RAM and GPU's, but it's slowly building towards electricity & water bills as AI centers are being built worldwide and their insane energy & water costs will also be subsidized by YOU.
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Stormwolf




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PostPosted: Wed, 5th Nov 2025 00:13    Post subject:
Just burn them to the ground. Fucking hopeless
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