It was, I believe the 5700X3D is also not in production.

An interesting chart, but difficult to interpret in more depth. The article suggests this refers to price changes not “market growth”, but then what is the unit per price value?

According to TechInsights, memory pricing was already on the rise in 2024, growing 88 percent from a rather steep valley the year prior. Based on previous DRAM booms, one might expect it to grow at a slower pace in 2025, before contracting in 2026 or 2027.

From my perspective, a high end (at the time of purchase) desktop should still be usable in 10 years.

In 2023 I was working on an old laptop from 2014 with 760M and an i7-4702MQ, it was not the best (although I added an SSD and upgraded to 16GB RAM), but it did OK and could play older games just fine.

I really wish they did another 5800X3D run (or even a 5800X3D XT). I missed the opportunity to buy it and the grey market prices are stupid.

I have a pretty solid AM4 rig; 3080 GPU (which is enough for my needs), x2 32 GB 16 CL 3600 memory. Tons of storage for HDD, PCIe 4 and PCIe 3 for different use cases, a solid cooling system.

I was planning to upgrade to AM5 next year, but I don’t think it’s happening. To be honest, the only way I am limited is the CPU.

One thing that is undeniably true is that the Taiwanese cannot trust the Americans. A two generation gap is very reasonable on the part of Taiwan.

Unlike other SMR designs we’ve discussed over the past year, Radiant’s Kaleidos reactors are tiny, capable of producing about a megawatt of power each. However, the actual mechanism for energy generation isn’t too far off from the designs we’ve seen from X-Energy, which use TRISO fuel pellets and helium gas as a coolant.

I am not expert on DC power provision strategy, but one megawatt seems like a tiny amount.

However, the jury is still out on whether SMRs will ever be cost effective. In September, analysts at the Centre for Net Zero (CNZ) estimated it would cost 43 percent less to power a 120 MW data facility with renewables and a small amount of gas-generated energy, compared to using SMRs

Then what’s the point? Even if economies of scale bring down production costs, there are still going to be unique costs with operating SMRs.

Are they planning to deploy them without any safety measures? Literally just a trailer module that any well-connected local goon can deploy anywhere?

In the fall of 2024, the first samples of the equipment were sent to Intel for evaluation. Later, Samsung, TSMC, and other major market players also showed interest in the technology. DNP plans to start mass production of the necessary materials for 1.4nm chips in 2027. However, the established industry, entirely built around photolithography, could slow the adoption of the new technology. Switching to it would require manufacturers to significantly retool their existing production lines.

Sounds like ecosystem/industry inertia will limit the adoption. Perhaps Japan’s Rapidus will try and leverage this tech as sort of high risk / high reward strategy to compete against TSMC.

That being said, throughout the video, Crisler commended PC gamers as a whole for being resilient, having weathered several shortages and emerging victorious on the other end. He advises the community to: “Put your money away. Relax. Play some games. Enjoy the system you’ve got right now.” PC gaming is not going anywhere, and even this crisis will eventually sort itself out.

It feels like prices for components have been elevated for 5-7 years. First GPU crypto mining, then the COVID shortages and now the AI bubble. I am not sure what “emerging victorious” refers to. That being said, PC gaming is not going anywhere, there are so many good games that work fine on even older hardware.

The question is how soon.

The bubble can go on for a long time with circular financing schemes and it has full backing of the US gov.

It’s worth pointing out that lack of RIO has been a thing for a while now.

I can’t stand Android WebView apps, especially in retail. The whole point of installing a mobile app is to get a smoother experience than using the mobile webUI.

I understand that and I don’t have any illusions about things changing (short of major policy break in the EU that emphasizes that you can’t beat the Americans at their own game and you need to develop a novel approach that the Americans can’t compete with).

My counter argument is an application like QBittorrent. It’s an open source app with no budget, it’s cross-platform (including CLI and webUI, albeit MacOS support seems to be subpar due to lack of developers) and it is very efficient.

In the non-open source and/or Windows-only sphere, there is Mp3Tag, Notepad++, FastStone Image Viewer, Media Player Classic BE.

All very snappy applications, with a huge range of features/options (by the standard of consumer software) and they have the ability to handle large throughput.

I am not a developer, so this is just speculation, but I think the current development community (outside of individuals with a personal interest in the topic) is largely incapable of developing efficient, well-optimized applications. Not that they don’t have the capability, but the broader industry ecosystem (on the consumer side) doesn’t exist in terms of efficient application development.

That’s a reasonable use case for SATA SSDs.

Technically speaking it is hidden in a SRT subtitle file, but it’s not the like you can execute the SRT file, since it’s just text.

If you are downloading pirates movies, it makes sense to not click on on random stuff in the torrent/download that’s clearly not a media file.

Depends on the the type office work.

If you use excel heavily with large datasets or say data vizualization software like PowerBI and Tableau, 8GB is definitely not going to be enough.

That being said, my grandma has an a 6GB RAM Windows 10 machine and it works fine for her relatively resource-lite use cases.

Was just going to say this.

Do you really need SATA SSDs for a NAS though?

From my understanding SATA SSDs would work better for smaller files, but for bigger files (e.g. media) the benefits seem to be minimal (much more so if you don’t have a 10 GB network connection)

While I am on a desktop, I am also happy that that I bought 64 GB of relatively high performance DDR4.

It looks like I will have to stay with my AM4 system for at least another 2-3 years. It works very well, the only thing that I am missing is an update to 5800X3D, which unfortunately is impossible to get for a fair price since it was a one-time run only it seems.

And DIY components is a relatively small segment of the market compared to laptops and pre-builts. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s in the 10-15% range of total revenues even for companies like AMD that have strong market momentum in the space.

For a second I thought Samsung was ending production of all consumer SSDs, including NVMe.

SATA SSDs are IMO a niche use case. If you don’t have any free M.2 slots, you can always get a PCIe adapter card and deploy multiple NVMe drives.