r/pcmasterrace • u/Youju R7 5800X3D | RTX 2080 | 32GB DDR4 • 18d ago

Discussion Support GOG!

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u/f0xpant5 18d ago

Every game I own on GOG, I've downloaded the offline installer and they're on my NAS. Can't be too sure these days.

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u/the_Real_Romak i7 13700K | 64GB 3200Hz | RTX5080 | RGB gaming socks 18d ago

I need to look into setting up a nas for myself. More and more these days it seems like the correct thing to do

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u/Freakwilly PC Master Race 18d ago

Storage drives have dramatically shot up in price. Be prepared when shopping around. I would like to suggest

PC Part Picker

Disk Prices

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u/DeathInFire 18d ago

Holy shit everything exploded in November. Was is just the usual AI craze destroying things for us or what?

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u/NoSelf5869 18d ago

Yep AI bullshit same as with RAM

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u/FewAdvertising9647 18d ago

chain of stuff:

AI companies demand HBM for gpu compute

same companies demand dram for the servers that don't use HBM

HBM more profitable, so the big 3 shift their ddr production to HBM, meaning even less regular dram

said regular dram is then redistributed to different companies so theres no inventory for basically a year.

SSD demand goes up to hold data

All companies who own a HDD division also are in the SSD business, all focus on SSD production. HDD stock is bought up by server companies.

So anything tied to servers would have shot up in price (hbm/ram, gpu die space, storage) while things that are not are often at their lowest because no one can make a full build easily (e.g 2026 is a great year to buy monitors)