I watched one of his from 2 days ago about Nividia is : Abandoning the Personal Computer. In fact they aren't going to report sales and earnings in the gaming department any more, but roll the earnings in with other categories. Because PC sales are declining each year. And other stuff which goes along with your video. Also Metatron has posted videos.

My question is are sales declining because nobody's interested in pc's, or are sales declining because the latest graphics cards are now out of most people's financial reach?

It's the system RAM, and to a slightly lesser extent, storage. No one is going to build a new system at the current asking prices for those components. As a result, that snowballs into fewer CPUs, motherboards, and video cards being purchased/sold.

I have sixty four gigs of DDR5 ram. I could probably make a nice tidy little profit selling thirty two gigs of it.....

At Amazon, the 32 GB of DDR4 that I bought for £58.99 in September 2024 is now £199.99 or £268.89, or even £656.73.
It is not surprising, but somewhat depressing, to see attempts by the greedy to rip off the anyone that they think they can.
Human nature is often flawed and for me, the worst flaw is greed, something that seems to be motivating far too much at present.

Edited May 26May 26 by Reader

4 hours ago, HiFlyer said:

I have sixty four gigs of DDR5 ram. I could probably make a nice tidy little profit selling thirty two gigs of it.....

Me too. But then I end up with one stick and not double data rate. ☹️

I'll give you both for a Ferrari or Buggati.

1 hour ago, martin-w said:

Me too. But then I end up with one stick and not double data rate. ☹️

I'll give you both for a Ferrari or Buggati.

Well, in my case I have four 16GB sticks, so I could still be fine....

Edited May 26May 26 by HiFlyer

3 hours ago, HiFlyer said:

Well, in my case I have four 16GB sticks, so I could still be fine....

Do it my boy. You'll be rich! You can compete with Bezos and Elon.

I have a complete 2015 specification PC with 4x8GB sticks of DDR4-4266 RAM, a 6GB Nvidia GTX 980Ti, i5 7600k CPU, Noctua NH-U14S CPU air cooler, 1+2TB M2 Nvme drives, and an Asus Maximus IX Hero motherboard......and it was built by the best in the industry

Bidding starts at £2000......

I had to hold off building a new system as RAM prices are so outrageous right now.

I'm hoping that the memory chips companies will ramp up production so prices will come down. Micron is expanding their plants here in the U.S. and I'm sure other companies are doing the same, so hopefull more supply is coming.

I'm not too optimistic, though, as data center construction is through the roof, and more being planned all the time.

Dave

11 hours ago, Reader said:

At Amazon, the 32 GB of DDR4 that I bought for £58.99 in September 2024 is now £199.99 or £268.89, or even £656.73.
It is not surprising, but somewhat depressing, to see attempts by the greedy to rip off the anyone that they think they can.
Human nature is often flawed and for me, the worst flaw is greed, something that seems to be motivating far too much at present.

I'm sure that greed does play a role in a lot of the price increases we're experiencing, but I don't think that's the main factor where RAM is concerned.

The mad dash to build data centers has caused demand for chips to skyrocket in a short time and production hasn't caught up yet.

I just hope the chip manufacturers don't decide to become like OPEC and keep supply tight to keep prices up for more profit.

Dave

Edited May 26May 26 by dave2013

3 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

......and it was built by the best in the industry .

Not true... I did NOT build your PC. 😒

Just read a news article about a Chinese company that's producing a lot of RAM now. Corsair just started using their chips.

I predict that RAM prices will come down over the next year. How much is unclear.

Dave