Motherboard makers can’t make enough AM4 boards to meet huge Chinese demand

[chipsnapper]

https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd-asus-gigabyte-motherboard-shortage-china

AMD's stock is through the roof nowadays. It's good to have them back.

[Codemaster85]

Im still kicking my ass not buying AMD stock back right before ryzen was announced.

[Swilly]

I'm so glad I got my Ryzen CPU upgrade before the huge flood of purchases.

[meppers]

i upgraded to a 2600 last week and had no issues getting anything...

[Vuu]

It's due to the fact that manufacturers of other components are deliberately not increasing production to rip off the producers above, which results in folks getting ripped off, just like the graphic card situation which could have easily been solved if Shitsung moved some memory production into VRAM and not phone memory

[Gorou]

IIRC there was an anti-trust lawsuit this year over RAM manufacturers intentionally causing shortages. Don't know if that went anywhere or if that's still ongoing but it might spell the end of the obscene RAM prices.

[Jund]

Only managed to make a few hundred because I didn't have a lot to invest at the time

[Perogi Palooka]

So am I never going to be able to build a new PC? It seems like just when price surges are calming down on a certain part, another component shoots up in price astronomically. Ram, GPUs, now mobos.

[Codemaster85]

Gpus have taken a dive tbh. I was able to snag a 1080ti well below msrp by a full $100+ during a sale.

[Clovis]

I remember buying the Opteron 146 and overclocking it from 1,8ghz to 2.8ghz - they were insanely overclockable...

[_RJ_]

From a different thread:
About one year down and they're already up 110%.

https://i.gyazo.com/ec9c567b8ebc95b46d6d9514aed82df4.png

I'm internally screaming right now.

[27X]

It didn't happen the last three times they colluded, why are you assuming it will stick this time.

[Gorou]

I'm not assuming anything, just saying that there's currently something going on about collusion. Can't guarantee anything but it's good to be optimistic every once in a while.

[patq911]

I'm kicking my ass I didn't buy AMD calls back when it was like 17. I was reaaaaly considering it too.

[Swilly]

I didn't have as much money but I was still on an FX Chip so I tried upgrading only to have so many issues I ended up going 500 dollars overbudget and making a high end AMD PC by accidnet

[BepisMax]

Also, the NAND flash market is in free-fall right now, and modern NAND foundries are fairly quick and cheap to convert to DDR4 foundries, i.e. they are alternative products for the manufacturers.

Certainly Samsung are switching some fabs over. The (genuine part of) the supply problem will solve itself