The Steam Hardware and Software Survey has delivered yet another update, showing us where the general PC gamer is headed. This time, the sector shows an interesting growth is system memory, particularly among users with 32 GB of RAM. While 16 GB of RAM is still the most common configuration, account...
Slow news day huh?
I guess we should celebrate that RAM is the only component not being scalped by its manufacturers, just not too loudly
Everyone needs ram and cpus and other general things so it’s in their interest to reduce cost and produce a lot. Stuff like enthusiast gaming GPUs have a relatively niche audience with niche buying habits which is why companies tend to get away with exploiting that.
It’s in our interest. It’s in direct conflict with their interests. Enthusiast GPUs aren’t the only product selling for the highest price they can get away with, almost every component is, including even non-enthusiast GPUs
It’s nothing to do with gamers and everything to do with AI data centers at this point. But if you can hold out a little longer the used market will be absolutely flooded with them when the AI bubble pops. Even the king of AI Sam Altman has acknowledged it at this point.
Nvidia has a monopoly on good gaming GPUs, there is no competition, so the prices are high.
This is lemmy. Most of us use linux. And Nvidia support is so bad distros literally have Nvidia specific builds.
And they still suck running on nix