There is no reason for this to exist except to trick people.
Build PC with 16gb now, upgrade to 32gb in the future, not be stuck with surplus 2x8gb afterwards.
RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one
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#122How about we use all that AI and start doing some serious optimizations to existing software? Reduce memory requirements by half, or even more.
We are.
I'm writing a metric ton of Rust code with Claude Code.
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#123AI sucks doesn't it
Yes, even more than COVID. At least during that period I could buy PC parts without problems. Looking forward to the next AI winter.
I'm getting so much more done with AI, it's wild.
The AI boom has only just begun. This is literally the next industrial revolution. And it's only now starting to take off.
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#124Wow... never really realized people actually used these things and didn't just chuck them after opening their RAM>
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
And I mourned every second of it.
Instead, value that different humans value different things, life would be utterly boring if everyone was the same, wouldn't it?
To be fair, it can affect the non-modders as well. I remember being very annoyed when I found out, after I had already bought it, that my current GPU comes with RGB lights that automatically turn on.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
And stuffing your PC case with various disco lights doesn't affect its performance either. But an evidently large portion of gamers are, well, special people.
Lmao, I got RGB coz it was the cheaper one
Lol same, it's blinking away in a case with no window, so at least I don't have to see it!
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#127I miss the days when most people had a vanilla looking computer. You wouldn't have felt out of place at the LAN party lugging in your dad's old Packard Bell tower that you used for your gaming rig. We still appreciated visually stunning PCs. Not just for the works of art that they were, but also for the DIY skill and ethic you were actually required to demonstrate to build and mod them. Nowadays, it's all just "RGB b…
Will there be another retro phase, with the vanguard using beige cases that scream, "this color expects to capture a nicotine patina"?
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#128I miss the days when most people had a vanilla looking computer. You wouldn't have felt out of place at the LAN party lugging in your dad's old Packard Bell tower that you used for your gaming rig. We still appreciated visually stunning PCs. Not just for the works of art that they were, but also for the DIY skill and ethic you were actually required to demonstrate to build and mod them. Nowadays, it's all just "RGB b…
I’m also “old” (44) and feel that rainbow LEDs are gaudy.
Seems these days that they’re not optional for most things remotely gaming related (e.g. motherboards, graphics cards) , but fortunately can generally be disabled or if illumination is useful (e.g for a keyboard), they can be configured to be white only, which was useful for the Steel Series keyboard I purchased. (I wouldn’t recommend Steel Series keyboards though, has stupid design choices and reliability issues.)
Also did LAN gaming back in the day. Computers were so much more work to lug around when you had a CRT and HDDs. These days desktop computers are far easier to transport.
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#129I miss the days when most people had a vanilla looking computer. You wouldn't have felt out of place at the LAN party lugging in your dad's old Packard Bell tower that you used for your gaming rig. We still appreciated visually stunning PCs. Not just for the works of art that they were, but also for the DIY skill and ethic you were actually required to demonstrate to build and mod them. Nowadays, it's all just "RGB b…
Will there be another retro phase, with the vanguard using beige cases that scream, "this color expects to capture a nicotine patina"?
There’s the Silverstone FLP02 [0], for a mere $250 you can get a case that looks like it was built in 1996, complete with a turbo button that spins all your fans to max.
[0] https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/computer-chas...
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
>And shouldn't smaller capacity sticks be cheaper since they can use lower density chips? In 2026 the bottleneck is wafer size as fabs are booked out making things for AI.
Lower density chips are cheaper, because they can be made in previous generation fabs churning out previous generation wafers with previous generation equipment. So there isn't a choice between making a high or low density wafer from the same fab line.
Are there any older generation fabs making DDR5-6400 like the article discusses? As far as I know those ones were mostly upgraded to newer processes and the long lifecycle fabs have targeted slower speeds.