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HoloDust on 12 June 2026
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JEMC said:
HoloDust said:

I don't think it necessarily does look very dire, at least not on overall - this situation is indeed detrimental to every segment, but probably the most to traditional desktop PCs, one with standard CPU+GPU+Memory approach. But if you put APU/SoC with unified LDDPR5X/6 on wide bus (so that you use one memory pool, that can serve both CPU and GPU, without latency or bandwidth issues, akin to what Apple is doing), sure you're loosing upgradability of classic DIY PC, but it's still desktop PC box running Windows/Steam (and we're seeing more of this from both AMD and Intel, and now nVidia as well). I think this is market that will expand, though probably at the expense of traditional desktop PC market.

Those systems are fine... for office PCs and low-budget machines that barely get used for anythign else other than checking your mail. For gaming machines, those are awful if you get a cheap one or as expensive if not more than a regular PC.

Therefore, I hate it.

Currently? Yes, all the good one's are expensive. In the near future? Well, Helix will use pretty much off the shelf AMD APU made just for such purposes, and both them and (I'd say especially) Intel want that market. Due to prices of RAM, classic PC will be several hundreds more than equivalent all in one systems.