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The RAM Shortage Comes for Us All [4:29]
YouTube ^ | December 4, 2025 | Jeff Geerling

Posted on 12/04/2025 10:59:53 AM PST by SunkenCiv

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To: dfwgator

Another good one from that LP. Really the whole thing is worth a play thru.


41 posted on 12/04/2025 1:37:53 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: TexasGator
I think he was referring to the "Visual" of MS Visual C++ adding a lot of run time overhead (.Net Framework stuff) compared to a C++ program that a lot of us first learned.

Today, you can still make a bare-bones C++ app (like we remember) in Linux with the g++ command-line compiler. I don't know if that's the case if you make a C++ app in the Eclipse IDE on Linux.

42 posted on 12/04/2025 1:45:49 PM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: FreedomPoster

Heh... most wristwatches have significantly more storage than any of those old floppy formats. We’ve all used 3.5 and 5.25, and way back when I also used 8” (IBM DisplayWriter, and an old CP/M behemoth that was around the office).


43 posted on 12/04/2025 1:47:06 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Kudos to the Admin Moderator, reason: "Randspam" [ 4354167 ])
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To: TexasGator

Yup. Surface mounted RAM is a necessity in common products such as mobile phones, or as everyone younger than me calls them, phones. 🤙


44 posted on 12/04/2025 1:48:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Kudos to the Admin Moderator, reason: "Randspam" [ 4354167 ])
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To: SunkenCiv
Thanks, good source, but I can read must faster than watch:
The RAM Shortage Comes for Us All

Memory price inflation comes for us all, and if you're not affected yet, just wait.

I was building a new PC last month using some parts I had bought earlier this year. The 64 Gigabyte T-Create DDR5 memory kit I used cost $209 then. Today? The same kit costs $650!

Just in the past week, we found out Raspberry Pi's increasing their single board computer prices. Micron's killing the Crucial brand of RAM and storage devices completely, meaning there's gonna be one fewer consumer memory manufacturer. Samsung can't even buy RAM from themselves to build their own Smartphones, and small vendors like Libre Computer and Mono are seeing RAM prices double, triple, or even worse, and they're not even buying the latest RAM tech!

I think PC builders might be the first crowd to get impacted across the board—just look at these insane graphs from PC Parts Picker, showing RAM prices going from like $30 to $120 for DDR4, or like $150 to five hundred dollars for 64 gigs of DDR5.

More https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/ram-shortage-comes-us-all -

45 posted on 12/04/2025 1:52:32 PM PST by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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🦗🦗🦗

46 posted on 12/04/2025 1:59:45 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Kudos to the Admin Moderator, reason: "Randspam" [ 4354167 ])
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To: daniel1212
I had sort of a longer term need for a MicroSD and because the need wasn't pressing, had back burnered it until after Christmas. Seeing JG's vid, I hopped right on and ordered one, comes with an adapter I'll need, and while I like the SanDisk brand, I really got pulled in by the USB adapter, which is from Everything But Stromboli.

47 posted on 12/04/2025 2:02:54 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Kudos to the Admin Moderator, reason: "Randspam" [ 4354167 ])
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To: SunkenCiv; dayglored
Thank God I bought 128GB or RAM about 3 years ago for a homebuilt. As an example of how dramatic the RAM price rise has been, look at the price of thus (incomplete) build I posted here 10/24/2025, compared with almost the same today:

PCPartPicker Part List

TypeItemPrice
CPUAMD Ryzen 7 5700G 3.8 GHz 8-Core Processor$163.99 @ Amazon
Thermal CompoundArctic Silver Ceramique 2 Tri-Linear 2.7 g Thermal Paste$3.85 @ ModMyMods
MotherboardASRock B550 Phantom Gaming 4/ac ATX AM4 Motherboard$79.98 @ Amazon
MemoryPNY Performance 16 GB (1 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL22 Memory [lowest price] $38.40 @ Walmart
MemoryPNY Performance 16 GB (1 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL22 Memory$38.40 @ Walmart
StoragePatriot P300 512 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive$37.50 @ Amazon
StorageLeven JS600 512 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive$30.99 @ Amazon
CaseThermaltake Versa H21 ATX Mid Tower Case$52.99 @ Amazon
Power SupplyThermaltake Smart 500 W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply$39.49 @ Amazon
Case FanMasscool SL-FD14025 45.32 CFM 140 mm Fan$5.99 @ Amazon
Case FanThermalright TL-P12W-S 52.86 CFM 120 mm Fan$5.39 @ Amazon
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total$496.97
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-10-24 06:39 EDT-0400

NOW:

PCPartPicker Part List
TypeItemPrice
CPUAMD Ryzen 7 5700G 3.8 GHz 8-Core Processor$174.99 @ Amazon
Thermal CompoundArctic Silver Ceramique 2 Tri-Linear 2.7 g Thermal Paste$3.85 @ ModMyMods (OOS)
Thermal CompoundARCTIC MX-4 (2019) 4 g Thermal Paste$5.49 @ Amazon
MotherboardASRock B550 Phantom Gaming 4/ac ATX AM4 Motherboard$74.98 @ Amazon
MemoryPNY Performance 16 GB (1 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL22 Memory$144.95 @ B&H
MemoryPNY Performance 16 GB (1 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL22 Memory$144.95 @ B&H
StoragePatriot P300 512 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive$54.99 @ Newegg Sellers
CaseThermaltake Versa H21 ATX Mid Tower Case$54.99 @ Amazon
Power SupplyThermaltake Smart 500 W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply$39.68 @ Amazon
Case FanMasscool SL-FD14025 45.32 CFM 140 mm Fan$5.99 @ Amazon
Case FanThermalright TL-P12W-S 52.86 CFM 120 mm Fan
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total$704.86
Generated by PCPartPicker 2025-12-04 16:59 EST-0500

48 posted on 12/04/2025 2:09:08 PM PST by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: Tell It Right

“I think he was referring to the “Visual” of MS Visual C++ adding a lot of run time overhead (.Net Framework stuff) compared to a C++ program that a lot of us first learned.”

Yes, but Visual C++ does not bind in everything you don’t need as he said.


49 posted on 12/04/2025 2:50:49 PM PST by TexasGator (1)
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To: SunkenCiv

* There’s no shortage, it’s right here:*

I looked high, I looked low, I looked everywhere I go. Livin in a home in the heart of the country.


50 posted on 12/04/2025 2:54:20 PM PST by sgt_lau (Islamophobic? No. I reject a 7th century death-cult that demands non-believers like me, dead.)
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To: sgt_lau

That was your first mistake.


51 posted on 12/04/2025 2:55:35 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: SunkenCiv

I upgraded for my employer back when an original IBM-PC with a 10 Meg hard disc. We were NEVER going to fill that up!

Yeah, imagine my chagrin at the first Disk Full error.


52 posted on 12/04/2025 5:53:48 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

😄


53 posted on 12/04/2025 7:21:12 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Kudos to the Admin Moderator, reason: "Randspam" [ 4354167 ])
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To: daniel1212

The local (well, nearest) computer recycling place peaked with the collection center and two retail locations (the addresses varied), went down to one, then closed that main drag location and went back to having their sales floor in the collection center. This could be good for their biz.


54 posted on 12/04/2025 7:23:48 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Kudos to the Admin Moderator, reason: "Randspam" [ 4354167 ])
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