Hardware shortage Memes

The great PC gaming love triangle has shifted, and honestly? It's giving character development. Back in 2020, PC gamers were out here side-eyeing their RAM while GPU manufacturers were living their best life, charging kidney prices for graphics cards during the crypto mining apocalypse. Fast forward to 2026, and suddenly RAM is the hot new thing everyone's fighting over while GPUs are collecting dust on shelves. Plot twist nobody saw coming: AI workloads are absolutely DEVOURING RAM like it's an all-you-can-eat buffet. Those fancy LLMs need 192GB just to load their morning coffee preferences. Meanwhile, GPU prices finally chilled out, so now we're all broke from buying RAM sticks instead. The hardware industry really said "you thought you were done spending money?" and switched the bottleneck on us. Truly diabolical.

Nothing says "living the dream" quite like treating a single 16GB RAM stick like it's the Holy Grail after a month-long quest. The formal announcement, the careful unboxing, the reverence—it's like announcing a promotion, except it's just one stick of DDR5 that probably cost more than your first car. The hardware shortage struggle is real, folks. You're out here refreshing stock pages like it's Black Friday, joining Discord servers for restock alerts, and celebrating component deliveries with the same energy as a product launch. Meanwhile, your Chrome tabs are still eating 32GB like appetizers. 16GB in 2024 is basically a band-aid on a gunshot wound, but hey, at least it's DDR5 with a sick heatsink. Now you can run VS Code AND Spotify without your computer begging for mercy. What a time to be alive.

Ah, the classic GPU launch cycle. AMD proudly announces their RX 9060 XT 8GB that's "Dead On Arrival" – not because it's defective, but because it'll be sold out before you can even load the purchase page. Nothing says "successful product launch" like immediate unavailability. Your wallet gets to live another day while your 7-year-old graphics card wheezes running Notepad.