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I only got $10 on me. Can I pay you the rest using my company’s stock?
The stocks who’s value is based on the purchase of ram you just made using stocks as payment? Seems perfectly logical to me.
Welcome to 2026, where the rules are made up and the points are all that matter
uhhh, “sure” 😅
that is not expected
I tried to make a new build on pcpartpicker and several times my RAM choice sold out before I could complete the build. It really opened my eyes to the state of the market
I don’t even wanna upgrade my PC atm, just a SATA 6 SDD as a cheap data grave, but guess what: even these cost as much as the M.2s in Sep. 2025. Though luck!
My 15ish year old pc blue screened of death on me. It had a few new parts over time but the same cpu and gpu so I had little choice but to upgrade. I figured I’d go mid range now and it will keep up with my needs for a few years to come.
There’s never going to be a time in my life where I will be able to afford even a modest gaming computer :(
sure there is.
steal it.
order ddr5 ram. return ddr3 ram as ddr5 and tell them it was opened and the wrong thing.
it’s no different than what AI fascists are doing right now.
Pre-built machines are still going for reasonable prices but once those companies run out of old stock that’ll be done for. If you’ve got a Costco membership they have some IBuyPower PCs for a pretty reasonable price. I got a ryzen 7, RTX5070 and 32GB of ddr5 for $1600. They have an Intel ultra 5, RTX5060, and 32GB ddr5 for $1,099.
I just wish I had an extra 1600 laying around. I am feeling the pinch after spending 40 bucks on drapes.
It’s actually even dumber than this because it was OpenAI that made the purchase with no plan for how to actually use the wafers. NVIDIA could actually do something with them.
Ok, how is this not illegal? Buying up all the supply to prevent competitors from buying any, even when you can’t use it yourself. There’s gotta be some anticompetitive regulation that would cover this
Gonna need a functional government with a functioning regulatory body for that.
Edit: also, Congress seems to be able to just lasso anyone and pull them into a hearing to make a show of damn near anything. We could really use one of those for this (and many other) boondongles right now.
