<![CDATA[good news: DDR5 prices have come down from pants-on-head silly to regular silly, putting them in that range where you could *maybe* justify buying some but you'll hate yourself afterwards.]]>good news: DDR5 prices have come down from pants-on-head silly to regular silly, putting them in that range where you could *maybe* justify buying some but you'll hate yourself afterwards.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/0d004996-a304-461b-be52-88c0e39c4c24/good-news-ddr5-prices-have-come-down-from-pants-on-head-silly-to-regular-silly-putting-them-in-that-range-where-you-could-maybe-justify-buying-some-but-you-ll-hate-yourself-afterwards.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 05:06:05 GMTWed, 13 May 2026 16:20:50 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to good news: DDR5 prices have come down from pants-on-head silly to regular silly, putting them in that range where you could *maybe* justify buying some but you'll hate yourself afterwards. on Wed, 13 May 2026 17:08:33 GMT]]>@azonenberg @gsuberland We're specing out a new embedded Linux design at work and it's painful.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dgc.social/users/23n27/statuses/116568366350125353https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dgc.social/users/23n27/statuses/116568366350125353Wed, 13 May 2026 17:08:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to good news: DDR5 prices have come down from pants-on-head silly to regular silly, putting them in that range where you could *maybe* justify buying some but you'll hate yourself afterwards. on Wed, 13 May 2026 17:03:19 GMT]]>@gsuberland Maybe for DDR5 modules.

Have you seen what Digikey wants for loose DDR4 ICs? $300+ for a single 16Gbit IC

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ioc.exchange/users/azonenberg/statuses/116568345769597377https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ioc.exchange/users/azonenberg/statuses/116568345769597377Wed, 13 May 2026 17:03:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to good news: DDR5 prices have come down from pants-on-head silly to regular silly, putting them in that range where you could *maybe* justify buying some but you'll hate yourself afterwards. on Wed, 13 May 2026 16:59:37 GMT]]>@gsuberland yeah nah i want to run the OS off it so… a proper one

augh

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://icosahedron.website/users/halcy/statuses/116568331236273071https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://icosahedron.website/users/halcy/statuses/116568331236273071Wed, 13 May 2026 16:59:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to good news: DDR5 prices have come down from pants-on-head silly to regular silly, putting them in that range where you could *maybe* justify buying some but you'll hate yourself afterwards. on Wed, 13 May 2026 16:56:41 GMT]]>@gsuberland @dysfun i7-4790k my beloved, I still have one in my NAS

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/ldcd/statuses/116568319671657524https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/ldcd/statuses/116568319671657524Wed, 13 May 2026 16:56:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to good news: DDR5 prices have come down from pants-on-head silly to regular silly, putting them in that range where you could *maybe* justify buying some but you'll hate yourself afterwards. on Wed, 13 May 2026 16:56:09 GMT]]>@halcy I had no choice but to buy one a while back and it *really* stung. I think I paid 3.5x the price it had been just a few months earlier.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/gsuberland/statuses/116568317582322287https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/gsuberland/statuses/116568317582322287Wed, 13 May 2026 16:56:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to good news: DDR5 prices have come down from pants-on-head silly to regular silly, putting them in that range where you could *maybe* justify buying some but you'll hate yourself afterwards. on Wed, 13 May 2026 16:55:08 GMT]]>@halcy if you just want a basic ass 500GB SATA with no DRAM cache then you can get those cheap. but 1TB NVMe SSDs are still like... 300% the price they were before this mess started.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/gsuberland/statuses/116568313621553728https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/gsuberland/statuses/116568313621553728Wed, 13 May 2026 16:55:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to good news: DDR5 prices have come down from pants-on-head silly to regular silly, putting them in that range where you could *maybe* justify buying some but you'll hate yourself afterwards. on Wed, 13 May 2026 16:52:32 GMT]]>@gsuberland 😐

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://icosahedron.website/users/halcy/statuses/116568303388701246https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://icosahedron.website/users/halcy/statuses/116568303388701246Wed, 13 May 2026 16:52:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to good news: DDR5 prices have come down from pants-on-head silly to regular silly, putting them in that range where you could *maybe* justify buying some but you'll hate yourself afterwards. on Wed, 13 May 2026 16:50:21 GMT]]>@halcy expensive

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/gsuberland/statuses/116568294806191685https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/gsuberland/statuses/116568294806191685Wed, 13 May 2026 16:50:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to good news: DDR5 prices have come down from pants-on-head silly to regular silly, putting them in that range where you could *maybe* justify buying some but you'll hate yourself afterwards. on Wed, 13 May 2026 16:50:13 GMT]]>@dysfun I really wanna upgrade my lab machine. it's running an i7-4790K / 32GB DDR3 / 980Ti, which is no slouch despite its age, but now I'm doing a lot more stuff in Fusion up here it's really bottlenecking on only having 4 cores and the yester-year quantity of cache.

currently looking at a 7700X (twice as many cores, higher base and boost clocks, twice the L1, lots more L2, twice the L3/core, and IPC uplift), a cooler, an X870 board, and 2x32GB DDR5, for about £600. the RAM is £240 of that.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/gsuberland/statuses/116568294282791425https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/gsuberland/statuses/116568294282791425Wed, 13 May 2026 16:50:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to good news: DDR5 prices have come down from pants-on-head silly to regular silly, putting them in that range where you could *maybe* justify buying some but you'll hate yourself afterwards. on Wed, 13 May 2026 16:32:32 GMT]]>@gsuberland I am really annoyed at myself for cheaping out on buying new hard drives because I didn't *immediately* need them and didn't expect them to also go through the roof (though not as badly as the rest)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dgc.social/users/23n27/statuses/116568224744478085https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dgc.social/users/23n27/statuses/116568224744478085Wed, 13 May 2026 16:32:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to good news: DDR5 prices have come down from pants-on-head silly to regular silly, putting them in that range where you could *maybe* justify buying some but you'll hate yourself afterwards. on Wed, 13 May 2026 16:26:57 GMT]]>@gsuberland how are we doing on SSDs? I would really like to put another SSD in my PC so I can put linux on it without fucking about with partition resizing

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://icosahedron.website/users/halcy/statuses/116568202781215130https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://icosahedron.website/users/halcy/statuses/116568202781215130Wed, 13 May 2026 16:26:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to good news: DDR5 prices have come down from pants-on-head silly to regular silly, putting them in that range where you could *maybe* justify buying some but you'll hate yourself afterwards. on Wed, 13 May 2026 16:21:16 GMT]]>@gsuberland just gotta hold out a little longer

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/dysfun/statuses/116568180393708686https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/dysfun/statuses/116568180393708686Wed, 13 May 2026 16:21:16 GMT