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[Shane_B.]

Just for kicks and giggles I just checked the pricing on the 2 sticks of ram I bought.

Original Price: $168

I Paid: $486 (1.5 weeks ago)

Today's Price: $619

[kitekrazy]

47 minutes ago, Shane_B. said:

No. The internet. Lol. I did a lot of reading before I pieced out this build. I even emailed a couple of the manufacturers and got quick responses surprisingly.

But I never officially asked about the bottlenecking of a pci 4 gpu on a new pci 5 compatible system. I got a mobo that supports full lane width for the gpu and m.2 drive., which is hard to find actually. 

That said, I can run this rtx 3060 in 4K with no problems with the 1 game I play now.  I just have to turn a couple of eye candy settings off that I dont care for anyway and would never have on if I had a system that could handle it. I can live without the game if it won't run properly so it's not that big of a deal to me. 99% of what I do would run off th3 3mbedded gpu. 

I read there will be significant dropped frames and others say it will run even better. I take the net with a grain of salt so time will tell.

I got the final pieces yesterday. I'm so disgusted by being forces to do this because of windows 11 and the astronomical price increase that I just threw everything in my.office and have no motivation to put it together. Normally I'd be up all.night as soon as I ot rhe final piece, but I'm really feeling crappy about this build for several reasons. I don't like being forced into it then being robbed at checkout.

Sorry for the long rant. LOL. I'm sitting at work waiting for an inspector and I'm bored and completely burned out. I worked 7 days a week for the last 4 months doing gut and remodels and as soon as this guy gets here and leaves, I'm outta here till 1/1/26.

Unless it snows or something breaks. Then I'll be back. 😔

I have no desire to game in 4K. I'm still using a 1660.  I have no desire to upgrade the most overpriced piece of hardware.  

[57Gregy]

On 12/7/2025 at 4:54 PM, Shane_B. said:

I can't explain why without "going there" but I do believe there is a process in the works to, uh, undo the halt that was previously implemented.

 

On 12/9/2025 at 10:17 AM, kitekrazy said:

Who told you that? nVidia?

I believe in this instance Bub/Shane was referring to my statement about gas prices.

[Shane_B.]

10 hours ago, 57Gregy said:

 

I believe in this instance Bub/Shane was referring to my statement about gas prices.

I thought he was referring to the bottle neck stuff I read about the gpu/cpu. But I wasn't sure. 🙂

[57Gregy]

Gas, food, PC components, music. It's all still expensive. And the older I get, the more everything gets more expensive. Get off my lawn, ya pimply-faced punks!
Concert prices. Yikes! Wanted to see Todd Rundgren here in Raleigh a few months ago. At a medium-sized venue. Too much.

[Shane_B.]

On 12/10/2025 at 10:15 AM, Shane_B. said:

Just for kicks and giggles I just checked the pricing on the 2 sticks of ram I bought.

Original Price: $168

I Paid: $486 (1.5 weeks ago)

Today's Price: $619

And today's price .... $840.

If my maths is correct, that's a 500% increase from the pricing a couple months ago.

As Roy Orbison once opined ... it's over, it's over, it's over! It's ooooooooooovvvveeeerrrrrrrrrr

Lol.

[kitekrazy]

6 hours ago, Shane_B. said:

And today's price .... $840.

If my maths is correct, that's a 500% increase from the pricing a couple months ago.

As Roy Orbison once opined ... it's over, it's over, it's over! It's ooooooooooovvvveeeerrrrrrrrrr

Lol.

I wish I could laugh but I guess I'll not do even a budget system build.

There will always be excuses but eventually later investigations will see the root of it as intentional price gouging.  It's happened with eggs.

Yet the stuffed shirts think the corporate world without the consumer market will keep them afloat they will eventually find out.

 I have to wonder what Apple users will pay since they overprice upgrades.

Another danger is lower cost but poor quality will enter that market.  We will be going back to leaking capacitors again.

Edited yesterday at 07:51 PM by kitekrazy

[Shane_B.]

20 hours ago, kitekrazy said:

I wish I could laugh but I guess I'll not do even a budget system build.

That's for DDR5. DDR4 is a bit less. I read an article that said there's a shortage because of AI and bit mining farms popping up all over and they are buying up all the RAM and chip based drives. SSD, M.2. The estimate was the prices will continue to go up and then stabilize some time around 2029. But nothing is set in stone. So it's hard to say if you should wait.

I bought 64GB of DDR5. I know that's way overkill for most tasks, but I do do heavy video editing on rare occasion and I thought it would help when I get back into recording and using large sample libraries.

100% of everything will run fine on 32GB DDR4, even 16GB DDR4. Games may suffer a frame or two drop if you are a hard core 4K gamer. Maybe.

But this is my last build and I wanted to future proof it so to speak. I bought all parts so they would run native 5600 and full pci 5 lanes without splitting lanes between the GPU and M.2. So when the I eventually have to replace my rtx 3060, I can put in a full pci 5 GPU and not cut/split the speed with the m.2 drive. I've always built my systems this way and I've always had rock solid performance. I can't remember a single system based crash in 10 years on my current pc.

I have to do this now before the end of the year for tax purposes. I was going to wait,  but since I started putting together a parts list this past summer, prices have been steadily going up. 

If I would have built this when I originally started, I would have spent well over $1000 less. I'll post the original pricing and what I actually paid now later. I have all the original prices in an excel spreadsheet somewhere.

I'm upset, but it isn't the end of the world. I got 10 years out of my old PC and it still runs great. It just won't run Win 11 without a few hacks and I don't want to get into that.

This new build will be all stock speeds at jedec standards. No overclocking. You pay a premium for non overclockable full 5600 ddr5 ram. That's part of the cost for me. 

The trick is finding a mobo that will support the cpu/ram and drive controllers all at full jedec speed in a world where everything is sold to be overclocked ... .. .