Regret not buying more RAM last summer. And SSD:s as well. Prices are silly.
32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
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Re: 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
#202Re: 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
#203The squeeze is real even at the SME level. We recently wanted to add another TB of memory to several servers (we do EDA chip design, which eats a lot of memory). Quotes came back to about €200k for 48 x 96GB DDR5-5600 RDIMMs. Mind you, this is for refurbished memory with 1 year warranty. I'm still figuring out if this is FU-pricing or just how things are going to be from now on. Spec-ing and buying servers has become…
I’m just working with an EDA client to upgrade their almost decade old machines to run the cadence tools…it’s grim. Real real grim. I was pricing out servers this morning with 64gb(!) of RAM for almost 20k. The machines were running now, some of them have almost a terabyte of RAM. I think the designers are just going to have to suck it up and use the slower machines
Re: 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've had them listed on FB Marketplace for months. In that time, I've sold four (3 to one guy, one to myself), and still have 20-ish more. i5-13500E, 32GB DDR5, 512 GB NVMe, scratched and dinged a bit for $500 is practically a steal! Hardly anyone's biting or clicking, I don't get it... New open box models (not scratched and dinged), if anyone's interested: https://www.ebay.com/itm/188355326179 Edit: they're intended…
I assume you're not in the Seattle area? Edit: Pittsburgh
That assumption is correct.
Re: 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
#205GPU prices have gone 5-10% down in the last month.
Re: 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
#206The squeeze is real even at the SME level. We recently wanted to add another TB of memory to several servers (we do EDA chip design, which eats a lot of memory). Quotes came back to about €200k for 48 x 96GB DDR5-5600 RDIMMs. Mind you, this is for refurbished memory with 1 year warranty. I'm still figuring out if this is FU-pricing or just how things are going to be from now on. Spec-ing and buying servers has become…
> Quotes came back to about €200k for 48 x 96GB DDR5-5600 RDIMMs
I sell used RAM in trays of 50 sticks (I physically know how much that is, I've held that many). I've had some trays sell for a few thousand dollars. Six figures for just one tray is absurd, but I've never collected enough DDR5 to make a full tray.
Re: 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
#207The squeeze is real even at the SME level. We recently wanted to add another TB of memory to several servers (we do EDA chip design, which eats a lot of memory). Quotes came back to about €200k for 48 x 96GB DDR5-5600 RDIMMs. Mind you, this is for refurbished memory with 1 year warranty. I'm still figuring out if this is FU-pricing or just how things are going to be from now on. Spec-ing and buying servers has become…
I still believe that Mark Zuckerberg would have been smarter investing all his AI funding into just making RAM fabs. Would probably have printed easy cash. Instead he's burning cash on making IG / FB less secure because of his in-house AI.
That would require having actual technological flair beyond 'buying potential competitors'
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#208I'm playing the newest games on ddr3 with a 2080 and a 4790k. It's a simple life.
Here I'm on a 5800x and a 4070ti super and it's woefully inadequate for some games. Though I suppose if you play at 1080p (which is hard to look at these days for me) you might be OK on low-medium settings in some newer games. I can't see you getting very far with something like Forza Horizon 6 or Death Stranding 2 though.
Re: 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
#209My bet is that the prices will crash once OpenAI (and/or Antrophic) IPO's have happened. Right now the biggest threat to their IPO's is that people realize that local models are good enough for whatever they're peddling, what's the most important factor to even running good enough models? RAM since you want the models in memory to not be total slogs.
You are saying there will be even more demand for RAM and that will cause the prices to crash?
Perhaps all hobbyst developers interested in local AI combined is a smaller demand than AI companies hoarding parts. That would make demand decrease.
Re: 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building
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Yesterday I did a price check on the PC I built two years ago. It went from $2300 to $3650. The bulk of that increase was that the ram went from $210 to $940. Its now more expensive than when DDR5 was new.
Those are rookie numbers https://stocks.sjer.red/
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