‘Twas the festive season but Santa didn’t know how
to deal with the new data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/bewildered-enthusiasts-decry-memory-price-increases-of-100-percent-or-more-the-ai-ram-squeeze-is-finally-starting-to-hit-pc-builders-where-it-hurts” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/bewildered-enthusiasts-decry-memory-price-increases-of-100-percent-or-more-the-ai-ram-squeeze-is-finally-starting-to-hit-pc-builders-where-it-hurts”>RAM apocalypse, now!
Who could’ve predicted this horrid event
in which memory costs rose data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/cyberpowerpc-announces-ram-price-hikes-coming-to-the-u-s-and-the-uk-starting-december-7th-prebuilt-proprietor-cites-500-percent-increase-in-memory-cost” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/cyberpowerpc-announces-ram-price-hikes-coming-to-the-u-s-and-the-uk-starting-december-7th-prebuilt-proprietor-cites-500-percent-increase-in-memory-cost”>500 percent?
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He didn’t expect this holiday twist —
It’s memory-intensive to create his list!
Even data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/micron-is-killing-crucial-ssds-and-memory-in-ai-pivot-company-refocuses-on-hbm-and-enterprise-customers” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/micron-is-killing-crucial-ssds-and-memory-in-ai-pivot-company-refocuses-on-hbm-and-enterprise-customers”>Crucial got killed in this big AI boom.
(This boom smells as funky as data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/zotac-launches-a-new-fragrance-line-just-for-gamers-the-companys-april-fools-joke-turned-to-reality” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/zotac-launches-a-new-fragrance-line-just-for-gamers-the-companys-april-fools-joke-turned-to-reality”>Zotac’s perfume).
But he still had some systems lying around.
Surely one of them would have to be sound!
He had an XPS, Optiplex — oh, what the hell?
Which one is which? data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/dell-kills-xps-and-optiplex-brands-adopts-apple-inspired-three-tiered-naming-scheme-for-its-pcs” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/dell-kills-xps-and-optiplex-brands-adopts-apple-inspired-three-tiered-naming-scheme-for-its-pcs”>They’re all…
