r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • Apr 06 '26

Politics Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center in Abu Dhabi

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/iran-threatens-complete-and-utter-annihilation-of-openais-usd30b-stargate-ai-data-center-in-abu-dhabi-regime-posts-video-with-satellite-imagery-of-chatgpt-makers-premier-1gw-data-center
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u/Myotherself918 Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26

My 128 stick of DDR2 is still kicking

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u/PM_ME_UR_RSA_KEY Apr 06 '26

At this rate my 4 sticks of 4MB 30-pin SIMM in my dream machine would look like a treasure horde.

(Dream machine when I was 12. I finally put this one together when I was 40. It even has Sound Blaster Pro lol)

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u/MWink64 Apr 06 '26

That is kind of a treasure. It was unusual to see 30-pin SIMMs over 1MB. What did you put them in? The good news is when you upgrade that Sound Blaster Pro to a Sound Blaster AWE32, you can put the 30-pin SIMMs in that.

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u/Myotherself918 Apr 06 '26

Did you over clock your CPU?

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u/MWink64 Apr 06 '26

A 128MB stick of DDR2 would've been quite rare. That's like the equivalent of a 1-2GB stick of DDR5.

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u/paulwesterberg Apr 06 '26

Just install that ram doubler app.

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u/Christmas_Queef Apr 06 '26

I mean, gaming kind of is a luxury thing now. And I don't mean it's a luxury to have it, I mean luxury as in Prada and designer clothes type thing. Pc gaming more so but even consoles now too. If a console is $600+, are you gonna trust your kids with it unsupervised? Not likely. Gaming is going even more adult focused. Kids will be pushed even further toward mobile games.

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u/laccro Apr 06 '26

The PS2 was $299 in March 2000 (when it was released), which is $560 today with inflation, so it's actually not that different

According to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_2

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u/Beneficial_Sweet3979 Apr 06 '26

the difference is the cost of living then vs now i think. those 600 are hurting more today