alt Hacker NewsSlight 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.
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dom96 • today at 2:35 PM
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?
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MengerSponge • today at 2:42 PM
> It's not looking good, I don't think supply is catching with demand yet.
Surely this will be helped by a helium supply shock.
> Though the other day I learned there are many technologies for "RAM"
I'm an advocate of sticking a $5 16Gb Optane stick from eBay on a $10 M.2 to PCIe 1x adapter from eBay. Set it up as swap in Windows or Linux. Or pay $200 for a 16GB stick of DDR5.