▲ 489 ▼ RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives (arstechnica.com) submitted 9 months ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 66 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] umbrella@lemmy.ml 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] eli@lemmy.world -7 points 9 months ago (1 child) And new computers can break. Might as well never buy anything because everything can break! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] eli@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago Yeah and the stuff releasing right now will be "old hardware" in 5 years. I'm still gaming on a Ryzen 1700X. And my GPU is a used RTX 3080 I bought off eBay for $500 two years ago. That 3080 was over $1000 during the GPU craze last time. And what was I using before that 3080? A 1080ti I bought at MSRP, which I still have and is my backup because hey, it's nearly 10 years old and still works. I'm not saying go buy a dual core Pentium, but "old hardware" isn't some boogeyman and "we will eventually not have old computers" is like saying we'll never have old cars. And guess what, if everyone stopped buying all this overpriced crap then prices would come down, but we all know that isn't going to happen. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies)
[+] eli@lemmy.world -7 points 9 months ago (1 child) And new computers can break. Might as well never buy anything because everything can break! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] eli@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago Yeah and the stuff releasing right now will be "old hardware" in 5 years. I'm still gaming on a Ryzen 1700X. And my GPU is a used RTX 3080 I bought off eBay for $500 two years ago. That 3080 was over $1000 during the GPU craze last time. And what was I using before that 3080? A 1080ti I bought at MSRP, which I still have and is my backup because hey, it's nearly 10 years old and still works. I'm not saying go buy a dual core Pentium, but "old hardware" isn't some boogeyman and "we will eventually not have old computers" is like saying we'll never have old cars. And guess what, if everyone stopped buying all this overpriced crap then prices would come down, but we all know that isn't going to happen. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies)
[+] umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] eli@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago Yeah and the stuff releasing right now will be "old hardware" in 5 years. I'm still gaming on a Ryzen 1700X. And my GPU is a used RTX 3080 I bought off eBay for $500 two years ago. That 3080 was over $1000 during the GPU craze last time. And what was I using before that 3080? A 1080ti I bought at MSRP, which I still have and is my backup because hey, it's nearly 10 years old and still works. I'm not saying go buy a dual core Pentium, but "old hardware" isn't some boogeyman and "we will eventually not have old computers" is like saying we'll never have old cars. And guess what, if everyone stopped buying all this overpriced crap then prices would come down, but we all know that isn't going to happen. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] eli@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago Yeah and the stuff releasing right now will be "old hardware" in 5 years. I'm still gaming on a Ryzen 1700X. And my GPU is a used RTX 3080 I bought off eBay for $500 two years ago. That 3080 was over $1000 during the GPU craze last time. And what was I using before that 3080? A 1080ti I bought at MSRP, which I still have and is my backup because hey, it's nearly 10 years old and still works. I'm not saying go buy a dual core Pentium, but "old hardware" isn't some boogeyman and "we will eventually not have old computers" is like saying we'll never have old cars. And guess what, if everyone stopped buying all this overpriced crap then prices would come down, but we all know that isn't going to happen. permalink fedilink source parent