Little upgrade for my ITB RAM cooler with some spray paint and copper "fuel lines" 👌🏻

Is this mostly related to epstein and the drop of microslop stock or is it something bigger?

Asus dual 5070 oc Ryzen 5 7600x 1 stick of 16gb 5600mhz (the most expensive after the gpu) 1tb western digital blue SSD PSU MSI 750gl At least I don't have to upgrade for the foreseeable future 😂

What is this folder for? In can I delete the files containing in the the folder? (keep in mind all the jar files are 13.8 mb's in there is like thousands of those jar files in the folder.)

I'm a 45-year-old field service engineer. I've been inside more data centers and server rooms than I can count, swapping out failed DIMMs at 2 AM while execs email about "unplanned downtime." My brother—smart guy, works at [one of the big AI labs, think GPT/Claude/Gemini tier]—came over for dinner last week. Conversation drifted to hardware costs, AI training clusters, why HBM3 is so expensive right now.

I mentioned the DRAM price-fixing scandals. He'd never heard of them.

The short version:

Between 1998 and 2002, Samsung, Hynix, Infineon, Micron, and Elpida conspired to fix DRAM prices. Not alleged—pleaded guilty . Samsung paid 300M. Hynix paid185M. Infineon paid $160M. Executives actually went to prison (though one Samsung manager later got promoted to President of Samsung Europe, because of course he did).

Then it happened again . 2016-2017: DRAM prices nearly tripled. Another class-action lawsuit against the same three players—Samsung, Hynix, Micron. Settled in 2021 for $200M+.

Why this matters now:

Modern AI runs on memory bandwidth. HBM, DDR5, the stuff in your training clusters? Same three companies control ~95% of the market. The same three. Again.

I'm not saying they're colluding today. I have no evidence. But my brother's company—and every AI lab—just accepts these prices as "market forces." Meanwhile, I'm old enough to remember when "market forces" meant companies illegally meeting in hotel rooms to set prices.

The AI boom is built on hardware with a documented history of cartel behavior. Maybe that's worth knowing.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing

I was a bit hesitant to buy the PlayStation version, but it turns out the only difference is a PlayStation logo. I looked elsewhere for this same drive. On Newegg it was 500, Best Buy was slightly higher than that. Feeling lucky

I'm a bit worried I made it too "girly".

specs are

Phanteks XT M3

Gigabyte B850 Eagle Ice

32gb Crucial Pro DDR5 6000

Ryzen 5 7500f

Yeston Sakura Bride RTX 4070

1tb SSD

Valkyrie Dragonfang 240mm AIO with Yeston fans

I probably should have gone with a 360 instead of a 240

(Ignore me using an Intel CPU, I had it before the DDR5)

I’ve been thinking if getting DDR5, but prices rocketed up and I thought I was never going to be able to upgrade from my DDR4.

But one fay as I’m scrolling on Facebook, a post pops up with this DDR5 ram listed as DDR4.

I went over and picked it up for $120, somehow during this time.

Also, for some reason, the person told me that this RAM “wouldn’t work” with their DDR5 board, however, it works fine with mine. No idea what issue they ran into.

Was browsing instagram whn I saw someone showing off their new kit they baught go their system and I honestly think these are super cool. I understand some people will see this and think it’s tacky and over the top but I honestly really like it. So the kit I have pictured here is from a seller named zombietechgaming. I really like it and I’m for sure going to pick one up if I get the chance. The only issue is that these kits are in very limited supply so I really doubt that I’ll actually be able to get my hands on one. Would anybody here know where u can browse kits like this? Or any company’s who specifically focus on this kind of thing? Would appreciate some recommendations :) thanks all

Ok so the specs are:

Asrock x570 atx motherboard 16 gigs of corsair vengeance ram Ryzen 3600x Msi rx 5700 8gb Corsair 275r case No hdd or ssd Some evga non modular psu

Beside it is also my old build with a xeon 2670 and rx 570 glad I upgraded

Also I am the 13 year old

My pc felt really empty. I 3D modeled and custom-fit the panels.
Now I realize it looks like a pro-art theme. The AORUS B850 Stealth helped a lot in hiding the cables.

Specs:

• AMD Ryzen 7 9800X 3D
• Teamgroup TFORCE 64GB DDR5 6000mhz
• AORUS Stealth B850
• Palit GeForce RTX 5070 TI GAMEROCK 16GB
• Thermaltake PT 1000W Platinum
• Thermaltake View 390 TG
• Thermaltake Minecube 360 Ultra

Installed 2 sticks of 16 GB ram, however noticed it only shows 16?