I mean, it’s doesn’t make the memory shortage entirely vanish, but if you’re a CPU manufacturer and the question is “what can you do in the next two years in terms of your CPU products to adapt to this”, selling a relatively-high-performance CPU that can (a) use older-spec memory, of which there is an existing supply in PCs that can be reused and (b) has a lot of on-CPU-die cache to help mitigate the performance limitations of that memory, that’s probably about the most you can reasonably do.
EDIT: I can imagine other things that a CPU vendor could also do, like maybe supporting “tiers” of on-motherboard memory for future motherboard specs for your CPU, where OSes could be aware of high-speed memory and low-speed memory and access both, but stuff like that isn’t going to be done inside in the two-year (well, now maybe year-and-a-half remaining) timeframe where we expect the RAM shortage to be really significant.
Well then I don’t care so much, because that’s a cooperate problem. Do like the major information companies do, and use standard hardware and build it with redundancies, instead of the overpriced server shit.
lol didn’t ask if you cared tbh. also no thanks, I’ll pick reliable hardware that costs more, over consumer stuff for my clients business needs. their business depends on uptime, not dealing with consumer warranties and replacing parts every year or two because they were used for more then just Vidya games
processor isn’t my concern… it’s the ram and hard drives.
I went to quote someone today for a 3.8Tb SAS drive… in sept, the cost was 3k per drive… it’s near 19,000 now lol
the ram previously was 225 for 32gb stick… they want 10,000… lol fuck that noise.
The reason this CPU is interesting is because it can use DDR4 DIMMs.
I can confirm those have merely tripled in price in 16 months. A bargain!
I mean, it’s doesn’t make the memory shortage entirely vanish, but if you’re a CPU manufacturer and the question is “what can you do in the next two years in terms of your CPU products to adapt to this”, selling a relatively-high-performance CPU that can (a) use older-spec memory, of which there is an existing supply in PCs that can be reused and (b) has a lot of on-CPU-die cache to help mitigate the performance limitations of that memory, that’s probably about the most you can reasonably do.
EDIT: I can imagine other things that a CPU vendor could also do, like maybe supporting “tiers” of on-motherboard memory for future motherboard specs for your CPU, where OSes could be aware of high-speed memory and low-speed memory and access both, but stuff like that isn’t going to be done inside in the two-year (well, now maybe year-and-a-half remaining) timeframe where we expect the RAM shortage to be really significant.
hmm… Ty… I need to actually order a new mobo for my older failed desktop
Plenty of people have “enough” DDR4, but want more CPU performance. This is perfect for that.
Probably a dumb question, but what currency is that? US$10,000 for a 32GB stick of ram is just bonkers.
CAD.
IDK about that, you can get 32 GB DDR4 for $200 here.
If the CPU isn’t the issue, why then go with DDR5?
Except of course you can get 32 GB sticks for less than $500, I have no idea how you get to 10000?? That’s 20 times the price here (Denmark) ?!
Also 4 TB hard drive is less than $200? Do you really need special server drives? I thought that was completely obsolete already a decade ago.
server components sadly. not consumer grade.
the server also requires the SAS drives to expand their current array with more storage
my own personal stuff yeah, your prices are inline with what I buy too but this is not consumer grade stuff
Well then I don’t care so much, because that’s a cooperate problem. Do like the major information companies do, and use standard hardware and build it with redundancies, instead of the overpriced server shit.
lol didn’t ask if you cared tbh. also no thanks, I’ll pick reliable hardware that costs more, over consumer stuff for my clients business needs. their business depends on uptime, not dealing with consumer warranties and replacing parts every year or two because they were used for more then just Vidya games