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Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026 (www.techpowerup.com)
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[–] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

When I built my 5800X3D/7900XTX PC, my research told me I'd need a 5090-class GPU to make my 5800X3D a meaningful bottleneck. As the 7800X3D and 9800X3D were released I could not afford a GPU that would make me want/need to upgrade my CPU. I will not have the fastest PC for the next few years but I can't imagine 5090-class GPU performance being available for less than US$1000 before DDR6 is mature.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I will never understand people feeling the need to have the fastest PC. A PC that's 80% as fast as the fastest PC costs less than half the price. The word "future-proof" gets thrown around so much I feel its a meaningless expression. Very few people can give a legitimate reason to need top end equipment such as a 5090.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    In 2023 when I built my PC and ran a benchmark and it said I had a top 3% PC (now top 7%) I was PROPER chuffed. 3DMark is the ultimate pay-to-win and there I was with my lower middle-class-salary (and no kids). I have low double digits in gaming hours on the machine in the last two years and pretty much use it as an HTPC. I just loaded up the Witcher 3 Remastered and maybe I just don't like gaming. I have a 5700X3D/9070XT as a backup and an 11600K/6900XT as a backup-backup. I had grand dreams of sim racing and local LLM and retro gaming and nah.

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