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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)
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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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[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 34 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Nice article but the numbers are a lot lower here in the EU.

While there is some pricing increase it's currently more around 50% and not 100%.

The selected kit is also extremely expensive (350€ was ~300€) - similar kits are available for a lot less (270€ was ~180€) - so I doubt that anyone was buying it in the first place.

I also think it's not completely AI related but more likely that this is another RAM price fixing scandal happening right now. Pretty much the same that we see today happend in 2017-2018.

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours 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 3 points 1 hour ago (1 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?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

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

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.