Building a PC the past 2 years has been the best decision ever…depleted inventories my fucking ass, less people are building PC’s now than ever because of the memory chip prices. They’re cutting supply to increase prices.
This is a reminder to all AMD fans that NO company gives a damn about any of us.
This is a reminder to all AMD fans that NO company gives a damn about any of us.
Foundry costs have gone through the roof, because demand is greater than supply. So AMD’s production costs have surely increased.
So while companies are not our friends, it is surely quite reasonable for AMD to raise enduser cost, when AMD’s production cost increases. And not necessarily some conspiracy against the user. Right? Cartels and illegal monopolies are absolutely a thing that can happen, but you have to actually argue that is the case here, before saying AMD is acting badly.
Same here. Built a new PC like 6 months ago when it was all barely starting (good timing) and my notebook and phone are also fairly recent, like 1.5 years old. Tablet as well fairly recent, 2y old, but that’s really only used for home media consumption so it doesn’t even matter in that case.
So I should be good for the next 5+ years or so. Hopefully the AI bubble has burst until then.
I was planning on replacing my 2017 build next year but I bit the bullet this month. Even if prices drop by 50% in the next year there are going to be no parts to buy :/
I did a 2020 build just as we were all going home, and it was decent enough. After the first wave of GPU craziness, I thought you know what, I’m going to grab one of those 4070ti cards and a 5800x3d, and topped it up to 128gb of Ram (it was on sale for like under $200, so why not, I just wanted to fill the slots). I mean sure it’s AM4, and the 4070 was supposedly the worst card ever and such a waste of money and blah blah blah, but it works. Will work for quite some time. And hey if things keep going the way they are, at least I can put my kids through college by selling some of the Ram in 10 years time lol.
Building a PC the past 2 years has been the best decision ever…depleted inventories my fucking ass, less people are building PC’s now than ever because of the memory chip prices. They’re cutting supply to increase prices.
This is a reminder to all AMD fans that NO company gives a damn about any of us.
Foundry costs have gone through the roof, because demand is greater than supply. So AMD’s production costs have surely increased.
So while companies are not our friends, it is surely quite reasonable for AMD to raise enduser cost, when AMD’s production cost increases. And not necessarily some conspiracy against the user. Right? Cartels and illegal monopolies are absolutely a thing that can happen, but you have to actually argue that is the case here, before saying AMD is acting badly.
No need for the reminder, but AMD is still better than intel :P.
Are they really though? What has AMD done that’s been so consumer friendly, as of late?
Kept their CPU socket the same, contributed way more to open source, supported linux more…
But it’s probably still solely based on their own interest.
Looking at rthe new 250 and 270 processors we may have some healthy competition again
Same here. Built a new PC like 6 months ago when it was all barely starting (good timing) and my notebook and phone are also fairly recent, like 1.5 years old. Tablet as well fairly recent, 2y old, but that’s really only used for home media consumption so it doesn’t even matter in that case. So I should be good for the next 5+ years or so. Hopefully the AI bubble has burst until then.
I was planning on replacing my 2017 build next year but I bit the bullet this month. Even if prices drop by 50% in the next year there are going to be no parts to buy :/
I did a 2020 build just as we were all going home, and it was decent enough. After the first wave of GPU craziness, I thought you know what, I’m going to grab one of those 4070ti cards and a 5800x3d, and topped it up to 128gb of Ram (it was on sale for like under $200, so why not, I just wanted to fill the slots). I mean sure it’s AM4, and the 4070 was supposedly the worst card ever and such a waste of money and blah blah blah, but it works. Will work for quite some time. And hey if things keep going the way they are, at least I can put my kids through college by selling some of the Ram in 10 years time lol.