• Xella@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Fucking sucks. Literally just started building a computer for my husband. We already bought the case, motherboard, PSU, HD, liquid cooling kit and CPU… All that’s left is GPU and RAM 😭 fuckin half way ass done computer now on the verge of never being built. At least it’s pretty. purplePc

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      1 year ago

      At least the AMD chips have an integrated GPU so with some ram you could have a basic computer.

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        1 year ago

        Can confirm, I’m running 3x 4K monitors with Ryzen 9900X easily. I’m not into gaming, though.

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          1 year ago

          True, but you can expand the ram, your board has enough slots. You’re stuck with whatever video card you can afford until the next upgrade.

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            1 year ago

            I don’t have any RAM lol. I’ve been slowly buying these parts for a few months now. This is all completely new. On my purchase timeline I was supposed to buy RAM this week. 😹

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              1 year ago

              Check eBay quick before all the reasonably priced ddr5 is snatched up.

              Good luck! o7

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            1 year ago

            Number of slots is misleading with DDR5. When you need more RAM, you’re supposed to replace the entire kit instead of trying to expand. It’s also now recommended you only use 2 slots even if it has 4. When I found that out, I couldn’t believe how fucking stupid it is. Even RAM is enshittified in 2025.

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              1 year ago

              I wanted to punch someone when I first read this. What the hell is the point if you can’t use all the slots. You also have to stagger them, there’s no using the first 2. Fuckin bullshit

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                1 year ago

                I think technically you CAN use all the slots, but ideally you shouldn’t. You’ll basically encounter slower speeds and/or stability issues if you try to push it too much. But yeah many people deserve punches for the boneheaded decisions made in regards to DDR5.

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      1 year ago

      Depends on your needs and resolution. You can always upgrade CPU to a Ryzen 5700x3d and the GPU to something like a rx6000 or rtx4000 series and get a big boost. No need do go all in with newest hardware.

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          1 year ago

          Lmao well jokes aside, you’ll be good for awhile, we crossed the point of diminishing returns some time ago for GPUs. I ran a 1060 for a LONG time lol

  • ugjka@lemmy.ugjka.net
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    1 year ago

    I got 64GB (kit of 2) ddr4 for 150€ In January, now it is almost 400€ or more. I thought of buying another kit of 64 later to max out my mobo to 128GB and now I’m totally kicking myself for not going for 128GB straight away. And last month it got announced they no longer will make ddr4 so I’m out of luck anyway now even if prices stabilize.

    As for why I need that much ram, I’m a tab hoarder and like to run VMs

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    1 year ago

    Damn I am so happy I upgraded when I did, had the same computer for upwards of a decade before finally upgrading a couple years ago, got my 7900xt with 20gb vram for like 650 and it doubled in price over a couple months(it’s back down now but whatevs), 32gb ddr5 ram for like nothing compared to these current prices lmao, I should hopefully be good for another decade

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    1 year ago

    A couple months ago I decides to buy another set of RAM to get up to 64 GB on a whim. So damn glad I decided to treat myself for once, no way I’d do it now.

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    1 year ago

    I’m really glad I met my memory needs last year. The price is completely unjustifiable. AI will blow over (revert to reasonable expectations) and when it does, hopefully there will be something left of the market so that we still have companies left to sell us RAM.

  • varnia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Great timing of two of my DDR4 RAM modules to die - I have never seen more errors in memtest+

    Luckily they are still under warranty but the vendor simply gave a refund without any option to get a replacement…