carrylex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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 weeks ago
Europe is also hit hard. The kit I was about to buy increased from 1 to 2K euro…
46_and_2@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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 3 weeks ago
Not LLM in this case actually. Virtualization mostly with qubes OS
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Scientific applications. My lab has a PC running 196GB RAM for processing 3D and 4D microscopy voxel datasets.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks 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.
carrylex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sounds more like the applications require some serious optimizations to me…