Apríl fools… right?
Padme: right?
Supply demand economics. And here is the Easter bunny.
Cartel
5700X3D master race. That AM4 platform will run until heat death of the universe
My 5700X for 110€ should easily handle my needs until either a major architectural shift or a groundbreaking new design makes upgrading truly necessary.
My 3900x is still running whatever I throw at it without trouble (currently Proxmox). You’ll be fine.
It’s different for developers. A lot of useful tools are resource heavy.
This is kinda my thoughts too. I have a generally “OK” setup now. 7800X3D, 64GB DDR5-6400 (I think it is 6400 anyway), and a 3080. Should be fine for now. At least to wait and see if we’re:
- Totally cooked and will eventually be forced to compute on the cloud
- Things return to some level of normality as the AI hype bubble bursts and people start using it as a genuine tool and not the panacea for all of our problems that needs the insane level of investment it’s been given lately.
Hell, if the bubble bursts hard enough there might be some cut price action, just like all those juicy cheap enterprise HDDs we could get during the covid times. Maybe wishful thinking though.
Just remember who screwed you over if/when they come back to consumers, cap-in-hand.
64gb of ram should be more than enough to last unless you’re running a hypervisor or something.
I sometimes run windows as a VM. But generally just for specific software. Radio programming, some have only windows tools that won’t play ball with wine. They need the USB port passed through.
There’s also just some tools only viable in windows. But I generally have always gone for one step up from the current normal RAM amount because 1: Software development likes to eat ram and 2: I really don’t like to upgrade too often.
Yeah, my windows gaming VM is by far my highest utilization, but even that runs fine with 16GB of RAM out of 32.
Although I expect that to change once I get frigate up and running on a second GPU (Amazon accidentally sent me two)
I was tempted to get an AMD 9070XT and maybe pass the 3080 to windows (since AMD is generally regarded better in Linux). Somehow (at least here in the UK) the prices haven’t gone up for that card yet.
But then I bought a load of radio stuff instead. :P
Last chance to do some money grabbing before the whole financial market crashes due to insane USA politics, unnecessary wars, tariffs, all participating to incoming inflation not seen in decades.
Maybe homes become affordable then
People who manage to stay employed during market crashes can often come out quite well. Staying employed is the challenge.
More empty houses for squatters.
Unless people have the cash to complete with Blackrock, I doubt it. And during an economic collapse I’m willing to bet people won’t have the cash.
