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Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 3 days ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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"I've been saving for months to get the Corsair Dominator 64GB CL30 kit," one beleagured PC builder wrote on Reddit. "It was about $280 when I looked," said u/RaidriarT, "Fast forward today on PCPartPicker, they want $547 for the same kit? A nearly 100% increase in a couple months?"

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[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Europe is also hit hard. The kit I was about to buy increased from 850 to 2K euro...

[–] 46_and_2@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Bruh, my whole mid-to-high range gaming PC costs 850 to 2K euro. What is the intended use of such an expensive RAM kit? Is it LLMs again?

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Not LLM in this case actually. Virtualization mostly with qubes OS

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Scientific applications. My lab has a PC running 196GB RAM for processing 3D and 4D microscopy voxel datasets.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Assuming that you don't need the absolute tightest timings and highest speed, you can get 192 GB from Corsair for "just" 660 euros where I live, pretty far still from 2000 euros. The speed and timings are the same as the 1300 euro kit, also from Corsair, it's just that the cheaper kit has no RGB.

So at 2k EUR I'm assuming it's going to be either more than 192 GB (in which case, is that even a desktop motherboard or are we talking about servers?) or some super high speed RAM.

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

256GB at 6000. In a desktop motherboard yes.

This kit. G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB F5-6000J3644D64GX4-TZ5NR

One of if not the only kit that can run with high capacity and at high speeds. In a "desktop" system

[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Sounds more like the applications require some serious optimizations to me...