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Building PCs is plenty of fun IRL too -- at least that was the case before the year began, at least. Yeah, cable management might suck, but for the most part f
by kunai 9y ago
Building PCs is plenty of fun IRL too -- at least that was the case before the year began, at least.
Yeah, cable management might suck, but for the most part fitting together all of these complicated pieces of silicon to create a working machine is incredibly rewarding.
Now, what we have is a monopoly of those same pieces of hardware by miners, leaving much of the fun of building a PC gone, replaced by scrounging around for deals on Amazon and Newegg to see if you can find a GPU at less than 400% markup. It's taken a huge bite out of PC gaming and left the RAM and GPU market in shambles.
Proof of work is an environmental disaster, and an economic one as well. Crypto needs to get its shit together and switch to proof of stake as soon as possible, because this type of gold rush helps nobody except a small few and hurts the people who use PCs for science and personal entertainment, who are a far larger chunk of the PC userbase.
- mistermann 9y ago> It's taken a huge bite out of PC gaming and left the RAM and GPU market in shambles. RAM prices have skyrocketed along with GPU? Sorry, not kept up on it....
- carc1n0gen 9y agoYes, but I don't believe it's for the same reasons
- developer2 9y agoDRAM and NAND shortages aren't new - the current supply problems started in 2016 and got progressively worse throughout 2017. The smartphone market is to blame - or rather, its consumers who upgrade/replace their phone every damn year. Apple alone drains the entire supply chain every time they ramp up for the next iPhone; add to that all the Android manufacturers, and there's just nothing left for desktop. If more people kept their phones for 2-4 years instead of expecting an upgrade every 9-12 months, we wouldn't have this problem.
- xvf22 9y agoYup, they've gone up a good amount. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/263031-ram-prices-roof-stuck-way https://www.extremetech.com/computing/263031-ram-prices-roof...