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32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 minimum — AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
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this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2026
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Well in global terms, PC gaming pretty much has been that since forever.
Reject the AAA slop and you'll be good. It's not like anything good comes from them anyway and all their "innovation" is just fancier graphics and physics without any real gameplay, content or story, mainly to justify the overpriced next gen Nvidia card.
Looks at my PC struggling with Rimworld and Paradox games
Those are CPU intensive, not gpu
I'm making a joke let me have this.
This is all true.
I enjoy indie games mostly these days anyways and my game log is gigantic. I can hold out for a long long time.
Just depressing to watch these kinds of prices.
Can you even run Balatro without a 3090?!?
unfortunately even indie games often require at least midrange hardware, like dedicated graphics cards.
i had to refund peak because it doesn’t run well on my computer, which only has intel integrated graphics, even at the lowest graphical settings…
Yes and no. There has been a HUGE jump in integrated graphics over the last five years. I'm guessing your Intel CPU is older and not one of the newer ones with Arc cores.
Integrated will never compete with a discrete GPU, but for indy and midrange titles you can now do without most of the time if your target is casual gaming (1080p and below, 60fps and under). The biggest issue is AMD and Intel don't do a very good job of showing which CPU models actually come with good GPU architectures as they often package older ones on budget models.
It's true that there's a lot of AAA slop out there, but my all time favorite games have all been AAA in their time. Cyberpunk can still push my PC to its limits to this day.
For people like me we live in depressing times, although technically there's no current game I am interested in that is beyond my PC's capabilities. Good thing past me thought 32GB is a good addition in the before times when it only cost as much as a fancy meal.