• melroy@kbin.melroy.org
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    3 days ago

    Dammit. Everything is going up in fire GPU prices. . Ram prices. Storage. Then cpu. And now motherboards. So basically everything…!

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      3 days ago

      Motherboards are, if anything, probably going to do the opposite — motherboard prices aren’t rising because of increased demand. Memory prices rose because of increased demand. Prices for things that use memory also rose. Motherboard sales are falling because of decreased demand; motherboards don’t use a ton of memory, and fewer people need a new motherboard because the components that they’d plug into the motherboard cost enough to cause them to defer upgrading or buying a new PC. You might see price cuts, if anything.

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      3 days ago

      It’s actually the other way around, prices should go down as mobo sales are low.

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        Yes normally speaking that would be logical. But today nobody is producing any products anymore for consumers.

        Hack even one of the 3 chip products, Micron, just said fk consumers. We only focus on businesses (Ai datacenters). Since we can earn more that way. In the short term at least.

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            They’ll just stop making them and shift toward parts that sell with a x100 markup fueled by batshit insane speculation. They’ll become a niche product in high demand thus prices will ultimately rise.