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The RAMpocalypse strategy

Latest reports indicate that the cost of DDR5 ram has risen by over 500 percent during the past year.

That's a gob-smacking amount and anyone "in the know" could have made a huge fortune within a very short period of time if they'd put all of their spare cash in to RAM sticks just six months ago. Indeed, it makes crypto gains look like little more than noise.

We're told that the reason for these RAMpaging price rises is the massively increased demand from AI datacentres. This demand has seen RAMufacturers allocate almost all their present and future production to datacentre customers rather than gamers or regular consumer supply chains.

The effect of this reallocation is why we're seeing the huge price spike at a retail level.

But is this simply a side-effect of the changes or is it the actual goal?

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Forums are Down

Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?

I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/

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