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RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one

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Re: RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one

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Post by est31 »

fschuett wrote: post #19
debo_ wrote: post #12

We should call the fake stick "NAM" for "no access memory." Then you can tell your kids that they couldn't possibly understand, man, because they weren't _there_.

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Re: RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one

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Post by tombert »

youknownothing wrote: post #75

so this is like men who use silicone implants resembling muscles to appear strong, even though they're weak AF xD https://www.bestbodyimplants.com/gallery_implants/male-impla...

Every time I see those I just think of Anchor Arms from SpongeBob. https://youtu.be/aDKkyM34e_k?feature=shared

Re: RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one

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Post by SloopJon »

dom96 wrote: post #70
dsign wrote: post #59

Slight tangent, I found this chart for the prices of RAM: https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/ It's not looking good, I don't think supply is catching with demand yet. Though the other day I learned there are many technologies for "RAM", and most of them are garbage for LLMs but still useful for other things, like microcontrollers. So I'm thinking my next "build" is going to be a guitar.

Super interesting charts there. What's really interesting to me is that the GPU prices (which also includes RAM) didn't see such a massive increase in price as the RAM itself. Anyone know why that is?

I held my nose and bought an RTX 5070 Ti for $100 over MSRP in January. The very next week the same model was up $200. It turns out that NVIDIA had been subsidizing retail graphics cards with its Open Pricing Program. Not the whole story, but it may help explain the relative flatness of the graph until the end of January.

The other part of it is that the MSRP already baked in a substantial increase from the previous generation. While RAM was near rock-bottom pricing when this hit, current-gen GPUs definitely were not.

Re: RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one

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Post by recursivecaveat »

dom96 wrote: post #70
dsign wrote: post #59

Slight tangent, I found this chart for the prices of RAM: https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/ It's not looking good, I don't think supply is catching with demand yet. Though the other day I learned there are many technologies for "RAM", and most of them are garbage for LLMs but still useful for other things, like microcontrollers. So I'm thinking my next "build" is going to be a guitar.

Super interesting charts there. What's really interesting to me is that the GPU prices (which also includes RAM) didn't see such a massive increase in price as the RAM itself. Anyone know why that is?

A $1500 5800 only has 16GB which would be $250 if you compare it against the DDR6 graph on that page. Given that there's only 2 top tier GPU manufacturers at most, they were probably already not very BOM cost sensitive.

Re: RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one

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Post by irdc »

debo_ wrote: post #12

We should call the fake stick "NAM" for "no access memory." Then you can tell your kids that they couldn't possibly understand, man, because they weren't _there_.

Signetics was first with their 25120 Fully Encoded, 9046xN, Random Access Write-Only-Memory[0].

0. https://web.archive.org/web/20120316141638/http://www.nation...

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