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what the fuck is wrong with prices of memory (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by jackmaoist@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net
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Fucking piece of shit Sam Altman should be executed on a wooden plank and his corpse should be displayed on a public square for the next 100 years.

I was saving up for building a pc but at this point I'd rather just throw my money in a fire than buy RAM or SSD. Even Apple has better Ram pricing than these goons.

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[-] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 55 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BORRBce5TGw

OpenAI bought 40% of all the RAM in the world for the next year.

[-] huf@hexbear.net 38 points 2 months ago

Lex Luthor stole 40% of all the RAM. that's four tens. and that's terrible.

[-] segfault11@hexbear.net 35 points 2 months ago

the price increase will be worth it if we get to see a gamer go joker mode

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

Imagining the person who Luigi's Sam Altman just immediately doing a fortnite dance while looking directly at the nearest security camera.

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

They are going to put all the gamer words on those bullets too.

[-] fox@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

Did they actually or did they say they're going to

[-] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don’t understand the deals and I’m not sure the terms are even public, but they apparently negotiated something like first purchase rights or a guaranteed price on up to 40% of the wafers to be produced. This of course caused every other big RAM customer to panic buy all at once as soon as it was announced.

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[-] invo_rt@hexbear.net 42 points 2 months ago

Basically, all RAM is manufactured by three companies. RAM pricing operates on a 4~5 year pricing cycle where high prices encourage a increase in production which in turn lowers prices and discourages production which raises prices and so on.

There hasn't been much investment to increase overall manufacturing capacity of RAM and the factories to do so aren't quick to spin up. RAM was already at low prices earlier this year which indicated a decrease in production. Then OpenAI announced they'd be buying 40% of the global RAM supply, a massive amount. This has led to retailers starting to jack up RAM prices. I panic bought a 2x16GB kit for $200 at the beginning of the week. That same SKU is now $400.

As a warning, this RAM shortage will affect EVERYTHING with RAM in it, GPUs, phones, etc.

[-] segfault11@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago

Then OpenAI announced they'd be buying 40% of the global RAM supply

did they actually put in orders or is this just sam altman pulling another trick to squeeze a little more air into the bubble?

[-] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago

Just another Sam Altman trick to make shit worse for the commoners.

[-] invo_rt@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

The latter as far as I know. Retailers are raising prices on existing stock. I've seen a few SKUs go out of stock only to be reposted with a different, more expensive SKU.

[-] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

Can't wait for smart technology to become unaffordable to the masses and this shit backfiring on their faces in some years.

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

I panic bought a 2x16GB kit for $200 at the beginning of the week. That same SKU is now $400.

Damn. Congrats, quick draw brace-cowboy

[-] tocopherol@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Is it terrible to still be on DDR4 these days? A month or so ago I got 32gb(16/16) DDR4 for 60 bucks.

Edit: The ram I got is out of stock on newegg, even the DDR4 is around 100-150 or more for 32gb now

[-] WellTheresYourCobbler@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

My pc that runs my mc server is still on ddr3 lmao

[-] adultswim_antifa@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago

We need it for the chat bots. This is the best and most rational system.

[-] Azarova@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago

riding my 10 year old rig till it disintegrates at this point. maybe the silver lining to the AI bubble popping will be that we finally see part prices fall, but nothing cool ever happens so probably not.

[-] segfault11@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago

wtf happened 😭 i bought 32GB RAM in april and it was like $45. granted it was SODIMM and probably not high performance gaming RAM or whatever but still...

i looked it up and the kit i got is now $180 😬

[-] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

Its like 350$ in India for a 32GB Kit.

[-] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago

The economy has depression

[-] Angel@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago

"Prices of Memory" sounds like it'd be a brutal tech death album name

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Atticus Ross (frequent collaborator of Trent Reznor) has this instrumental, down-tempo-y track with Sea Power vibes titled "Memory to Media" that this made me think of.

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[-] RION@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago

I used to love speccing out PC builds, even purely hypothetically just to see how good a setup I could put together for X amount of money. But then during the crypto boom and COVID it got way less fun and has mostly stayed that way...

[-] vanDerVaartBlackenedRanch@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

Datacenter demand is the purported reason for the 3x spike

[-] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

xigma-male urgently needs to catch up in computing technology. Western porky-happy are out of their minds.

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[-] WilsonWilson@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

I was thinking about throwing together a linux box and running a smol deep seek model locally but it looks like ima put that on hold for a while. I just checked ebay and used prices for 64GB are out of control as well. Any chance big ai is influencing this? They really seem desperate to get revenue on the books. I am getting hit up for ai services at every turn now. Firefox is asking me if I want my web browsing summarized by ai (NO), google wants me to let them review my email (NO), github trying to force me to use copilot (i use a free model), Insurance tape worms are advertising their use of ai and I'm just waiting for chase bank to push it on me (NO)

[-] stupid_asshole69@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

Look into used workstations and servers. They’re available for relatively cheap still and will do what you want.

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

A couple months ago I tried running oLlama on a server blade with a ton of RAM and traditional processor cores and performance was still pretty horrible. Is there a better way to do it or do you just need a GPU?

[-] stupid_asshole69@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

You need a gpu. Anything nvidia is fine, more ram is better, but you can use system ram to swap out what you’re doing.

If you’re doing it yourself, consider how smaller models built to do one specific thing can do the job. For example: a small 8gb video card can do text inference and its results can be sent to something like kokoro on cpu for tts and you suddenly have a talking llm on an eight year old budget gpu.

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[-] BimboChristmas@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

Damn, I upgraded my SSD and ram for like $200 last year, just looked at the same parts and it would run me like $700 now what the fuck.

[-] juniper@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

and here I am under my rock singing lullabies to my DDR3

[-] RipLemmDotEE@lemmy.today 13 points 2 months ago

Wow, I bought almost that exact same ram in March for $115.

That's brutal.

I hope Sam Altman fucks himself with a rusty spoon.

[-] stupid_asshole69@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

It won’t be better after the crash either because the gpus and sticks the modules are going into are hbm and ecc.

If you think there’s a crash coming that you wanna take advantage of it would be good to learn about workstations and servers.

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

no nand for you no-copyright

[-] EveningCicada@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=9hLiwNViMak&t=1449

Seems like it will get worse or at best stay the same for some time.

You're not supposed to consume anymore, you're supposed to AI.

[-] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago

Well maybe try vote blue next time!

But seriously that shit is USA problem only? I bought past week 2x16GB DDR5 6000 waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay cheaper than this.

[-] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

It's in India as well and it'll spread worldwide as RAM Manufacturers are cutting manufacturing and increasing price.

[-] segfault11@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

steam machine is gonna be like $1500 at this rate lol

[-] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

It's DOA if it's anywhere about like 650$. But with the current costs it might be the affordable alternative at this point.

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[-] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

Well fuck

[-] LeninWalksTheEarth@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

you can get a 2x16GB kit for $180 still, OP showed a way pricier one. Or a shitty newegg seller.

[-] toarmspunies@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Just checked and a 32GB kit I got on sale for ~$85ish a few months ago is now pushing $330

[-] stupid_asshole69@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Also OpenAI is full of shit and they won’t be buying the amount they claimed.

[-] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Doesn't matter. They've made computing far more expensive now which will affect consumers and smaller businesses while Ram manufacturers will be able to jack up price as much as they want since they're selling to data centers now.

[-] save_vs_death@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

scam fraudman

[-] corvidenjoyer@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Edit: wrong post

Uhh fuck Sam altman?

[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Damn I lucked out. Two years ago when I built my current PC 128GB of DDR5 ended up costing me like $230 (4x32GB). If I bought the same DIMMs today it would be $1160. What. The. Fuck.

[-] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

really glad i upgrade my ram last year. holding off for potentially a 6080 card upgrade, but with how disappointing the 5000 series was, my 4070super might just hold until 7000

[-] princeofsin@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Yea just do a DNA from amazon for the cheaper parts (below 500). Jeff bezos will give it to you for free.

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

Remember when 16 GB of RAM was high-end for anything a typical user would need?

That really wasn't so long ago.

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