#pc building

if you are looking for a new graphics card, or specifically a RAM upgrade, you might want to buy now. It’s already a little too late though.

AI is causing a massive RAM shortage. Prices have shot up tremendously. It will not be going down anytime soon, and will probably be going up even further.

This affects graphics cards because they use VRAM.

Here is what I paid for a 64 gigabyte kit of DDR5 ram a few months ago.

this is a graph showing a price of a 64 gigabyte kit by Corsair over the last month. I bought this for $215 earlier this year(and it crept up to $250 in July I suppose). As you can see, it is now about $500.

worth noting:

the previous chassis fans were 3pin connector ones from NZXT that came with my case and worked perfectly fine in this board

the BIOS does not read the new chassis fans at all

the BIOS chassis fan settings were also on AUTO, so it should've switched to PWM mode automatically, but even after manually setting it to PWM to accomodate for the 4pins and multiple restarts it's still blind to them

I have the ASUS TUF B550M-PLUS WIFI motherboard and am trying to connect 4 TZMRIT Interstellar-V2 Infinity Mirror ARGB PWM fans

Forgot to post this to tumblr too, oops!

Anyways, I spent the last 6 months or so holed up in the garage scratch building a custom Warframe corpus loot locker pc and ended up finishing in time for PDXLan, entered in the case mod contest and won first place x_x still feels unreal tbh?? The photos make it a bit hard to tell I think, but the case is pretty damn huge. And heavy... Also yes, it does in fact open and close! There's some more info in the warframe forums post:

I also have a workbook going over the progress of how I built this thing on my website

(also Rebb said it looks cool so I probably won't ever shut up about this aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa)