you kind of did it to yourself.

i absolutely wouldn't say that (bought a close to end of life 5800x3d myself btw).

lots of people would hold onto their hardware and see what happens.

a reasonable point of view could have been, that people would just hold onto their 3700x or whatever until am5 becomes cheap and good enough, OR they thought at worst they'd buy a used 5700x3d, which would be expected to be a decent bit cheaper than new.

those were reasonable thoughts to have had.

expecting criminal companies like openai criminally stealing 40% of the world's dram supply to shock everything certainly is hard to predict.

i mean i wouldn't have guessed that. i would have guessed a continued small price increase over time and not a 4-6x memory prices in a month lol.

and people could also just not have had the money at the time. nothing wrong with that. (well there is (fix systemic social problems, etc... of course), but i mean it isn't their fault)

and on top of that we both are hyper enthusiasts i dare to guess.

listening to tech news and rumors about products going eol is not a common thing for lots of people. even lots of people, who build their own systems.

i caution to ever blame the customer for a problem created by evil companies.

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either way, let's hope the bubble pops tomorrow, memory and ram prices go back to sanity, people can build systems again and THUS the 5700x3d and 5800x3d used will drop to below msrp.

that is of course assuming, that the bubble popping won't destroy the economy in a different massive way....

what great times.... /s