GameStop $55.5B eBay intent, Xbox Copilot cancelled, and AMD warns AI pushing RAM prices up. 💰 ⚡️ https://youtu.be/1IixIk_o6Yc

🎙️ This week on the Boss Rush Podcast, LeRon Dawkins and I react to the Star Fox revival, Asha Sharma's continued shakeup across Xbox, GameStop's pitch to buy eBay, and more.

#BRPLive #BossRushPodcast #RAMpocalypse #Xbox #eBay #GameStop #AIInfrastructure #AIBoom #CoreAI #XboxCopilot

GameStop $55.5B eBay intent, Xbox Copilot cancelled, and AMD warns AI pushing RAM prices up. 💰 ⚡️ https://youtu.be/1IixIk_o6Yc

🎙️ This week on the Boss Rush Podcast, LeRon Dawkins and I react to the Star Fox revival, Asha Sharma's continued shakeup across Xbox, GameStop's pitch to buy eBay, and more.

#BRPLive #BossRushPodcast #RAMpocalypse #Xbox #eBay #GameStop #AIInfrastructure #AIBoom #CoreAI #XboxCopilot

Scammers are selling fake DDR5 with empty plastic chips relabeled to pass as legit — fake components mounted to PCBs are yet another sign of the #RAMpocalypse

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/scammers-are-selling-fake-ddr5-with-empty-plastic-chips-relabeled-to-pass-as-legit-fake-components-mounted-to-pcbs-are-yet-another-sign-of-the-rampocalypse

#tech #technology #news #technews #scam #AI #ram

If you wonder why Nintendo (or Playstation) had to raise its prices, that's because the memory markets (RAM and NAND) have been like that every ~5 months for the last year.

#RAMpocalypse #Nintendo #RAM #NAND #HBM #SSD

About the only good thing about #rampocalypse is that people suddenly remembered that neither memory nor storage comes for free. I again see people pushing for software with lower memory usage. Which is unusual when for the past 3 decades people basically argued that 6 months down the road a hardware upgrade will solve all memory and storage problems.

#silverlining #positivethinking

Cursed homelab mini-update:

The 80GB server, or how I upgraded both our laptops.

One of the outcomes of the Qotomihilation is that I ended up with two perfectly nice SODIMMs of 32GB DDR4 RAM from Crucial. So I did what any enterprising techie in the rampocalypse would do: buy converters so I can plug them into a desktop motherboard.

Reviews told me that AMD seems to be the most tolerant of these sorts of shenanigans and it turns out that my current gaming machine is AMD (2nd gen Ryzen), DDR4, and currently has 3x 8GB sticks in it's 4 slots.

Obviously the solution is: 2x 8GB DIMMs + 2x 32GB SODIMMs for a total of 80GB.

However it won't even boot with a converted RAM stick installed.

So where to deploy them? We have two laptops, both DDR4 era, so they're the obvious second choice:

My laptop: a Thinkpad T480, 8th gen Intel, claims it doesn't support more than 32GB of RAM. Boots fine with 1x 32GB stick in it. Still boots fine with an 8GB stick in the second slot. Memtest86+ passes, so upgrade complete! (I then found reports of people cramming a full 64GB into these laptops without issue.)

My partner's laptop, an Ideapad L3, 11th gen Intel, but I can't find a maximum RAM spec. So I YOLO'd the other 32GB stick into it, so 36GB total with the 4GB soldered to the board, and it runs fine and would have passed a memtest86+ run if the battery hadn't ran out at about 75%, so upgrade complete!

This left me with an 8GB Crucial stick and a 4GB SK Hynix stick to play with, so threw them back into the Ryzen system, and it still won't boot.

So project complete:
80GB server upgrade: ❌
40GB laptop upgrade: ✅
36GB laptop upgrade: ✅
2x spare SODIMMs: ✅
4x useless converters: ✅

All in a days work over here in the cursed homelab!

(I'm unlikely to buy anything else that's DDR4 era, so if these RAM sticks or converters are free to a good home, or if you know how to convince motherboards to work with the converters, I'm all ears)

#cursedhomelab #homelab #rampocalypse

Microsoft just moved the goalposts.

32GB RAM is the new gaming standard, but 41% of Steam users can't afford the upgrade right now. 🎮

Here's what it actually means for your 16GB setup.
🔗 https://geekrealmhub.com/microsoft-32gb-ram-new-gaming-standard-16gb/

#PCGaming #Windows11 #RAMpocalypse