Unless they stop making DDR5 and come out with DDR6, I think prices should return to normal next year.
PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
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Re: PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
#372Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel like you're fighting the fallacy of "the rich" being collectively blamed for every problem, by giving them credit for everything instead. We know that none of the goods you listed would be available to the masses unless there was profit to be gained from them. That's the point. I have a hard time believing a large group being motivated and mutually benefiting towards progression of x thing would result in wors…
> We just have never had an economic system that could offer that Please propose it yourself. > you assume the greedy motivations of a few is the only path towards progress No. I assume the greedy motivations of the many is the best path towards progress. Any other attempts to replace this failed miserably. Ignoring human nature in ideologies never works.
That's extremely difficult. I just don't assume something is impossible because it hasn't been done yet. Especially when there is an active battle to undermine and destroy such ideas by almost every powerful entity on earth.
Re: PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
#373Hardware is faster, but the "abstraction tax" is higher than ever. As someone currently fighting to shave megabytes off a C++ engine, it hurts my soul to see a simple chat app (Electron) consume 800MB just to idle. We spent the last decade using Moore's Law to subsidize lazy garbage collection, five layers of virtualization, and shipping entire web browsers as application runtimes. The computer is fast, but the softw…
At least the price hikes will put some emphasis on RAM usage.
Safari is still leaking memory where a single tab managed to use 50GB regardless of which website it is.
Re: PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
#374Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's some new half assed ECC type of RAM, not sure the name. Was reading a series of displeased posts about it. Can't seem to find it now.
On die ECC for DDR5. Which corrects locally but does not signal the host or deal with data between the die and the CPU.
Presumably this is being marketed indistinguishably from regular ECC RAM?
If so, that's terrible news. It was already difficult enough to find ECC RAM for "workstation" class machines (i.e.: High end, non-server CPUs that support ECC such as AMD Threadripper).
Re: PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
#375hmm, I have a 64GB 32GB*2 6400/cl32 kit I bought from newegg last year for $127 - 20% cashback.
Re: PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
#376Re: PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
#377Earlier quoted context omitted.
This exactly. Capitalist propaganda likes to paint anything other than capitalism as Stalinist authoritarian communism, which should be abhorred as well as capitalism, and just for the same reason: both are coercive, hierarchical, and unfree.
Because every time I encounter such capitalism haters they turn out to be marxists in disguise. Usually pushed and promoted by people that never lived outside of their comfortable capitalist wealth bubble, written on capitalist devices, here , on this very venture capitalist's forum! The hypocrisy boggles the mind, really. It's like the lack the most basic understanding of economics and they never read any history. I…
Lucky for you, I'm not a Marxist. There is a very large current of people who are socialists but not Marxists, and have spent literally over a century analyzing history, economics, and capitalism itself, without insisting on the coercive hierarchy of Marxism or capitalism. And it has a long history of working in practice, even if in the modern day it tends to be crushed by both Marxist and capitalist forces, because who knew an authoritarian structure could allow you to command huge armies and oppress others?
You seem well aware of authoritarian communism, but generally unaware of libertarian socialism. They are distinct, and the latter has a decades long history of despising the former as much as you do, though for being based on the same primary issue as capitalism: coercive hierarchy.
It all starts with assuming the freedom of human beings, and that the only way to organize a system has nothing to do with efficiency or profit, and everything to do with maintaining that human freedom. It must be based on human freedom, and the concept that no one knows how to run your life better than you do. That no one deserves to be able to force you to do things. Whole systems arise from that fact, that have a long basis in history. As I've said elsewhere, you don't end up with men on the moon or dollar stores, but you do get people who are in control of their own lives.
Re: PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
#378Earlier quoted context omitted.
The iPhone wasn't designed or marketed to large corporations. 3dfx didn't invent the voodoo for B2B sales. IBM didn't branch out from international business machines to the personal computer for business sales. The compact disc wasn't invented for corporate storage. Computing didn't take off until it shrank from the giant, unreliable beasts of machines owned by a small number of big corporations to the home computers…
> 3dfx didn't invent the voodoo for B2B sales. 3Dfx was not the inventor of the GPU. There’s a long history of GPU development for corporate applications. The iPhone wasn’t the first mobile phone. Early mobile phones were very expensive and targeted as businesses who wanted their executives in touch You’re still thinking from a consumer-centric view. Zoom out and those consumer companies were not the first to develop…
The consumer centric view is powerful - as was stated above, the originators often were niche/expensive items. The power of the consumer market was what really drove the engineering/science forward and made those companies into market powerhouses. It also arguably killed intel and build TSMC into the most technically advanced company in the world.
Re: PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
#379Earlier quoted context omitted.
Advances in video cards and graphics tech were overwhelmingly driven by video games. John Carmack, for instance, was directly involved in these processes and 'back in the day' it wasn't uncommon for games, particularly from him, to be developed to run on tech that did not yet exist, in collaboration with the hardware guys. Your desktop was outdated after a year and obsolete after 2, so it was a very different time th…
yes. a good reason to upgrade was PCIe 4.0 for I/O. GPU and SSD needs caused PCIe 5.0 to follow soon after.
I wonder about this...I had thought I would be on PCIe 5.0 by now but I'm still on my AM4 PCIe 4.0 board since AM5 and PCIe 5.0 seem...glitchy and heat prone. And apparently I'm still not saturating PCIe 4.0...
Re: PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
#380Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Some times I think people with this mentality would be happier if the top of the line GPU models were never released. If nVidia stopped at their mid-range cards and didn't offer anything more, the complaints would go away even though we're not actually better off with fewer options. If the result was that games were made and optimised for mid-range cards, maybe regular folks actually would be better off.
Excluding a few poorly-optimized recent releases, what games can't run on like a 3070?
Well...Cyberpunk for example. It will run on a 3070 but look like shit...on my 4k monitor, if I want the gorgeous photorealism of the game, the $2000 (formerly $700 pre-crypto/AI) GPU still gets about ~40 FPS with some stuttering if you don't turn on the fake AI generated frames...