Question Is the cost of RAM going up everywhere?

[DZero]

This is the important point for us.

"which means that for the average consumer, the DRAM shortages could persist for quite some time now, or at least until the AI demand starts to fade away."

The fab expansion will first satisfy the AI companies, (itself a long time), and only then relieve the consumer market. We ---- don't ---- matter.

That or China starts to limit the rare earths they use and BAM, they could end into a worse situation than expecting.

 

[bigboxes]

I've been sitting on 128GB of ECC server ram since 2017. I canceled my project and have never used it. I'm going to look into seeing how much it's going for these days and maybe I will sell it. Who'd have thought?

 

[bba-tcg]

This is the important point for us.

"which means that for the average consumer, the DRAM shortages could persist for quite some time now, or at least until the AI demand starts to fade away."

The fab expansion will first satisfy the AI companies, (itself a long time), and only then relieve the consumer market. We ---- don't ---- matter.

We never did.

 

[Schmide]

So I bought 2 Kingston ddr4 2666 laptop sticks. I put them on adapters and slotted them into a b550 motherboard with a 3600. Stock they errored. Well it would boot and get to the OS but I would get kernal panics and occt would throw errors. I backed the speed down to 2400 and they were rock solid. So for about $100 i got 32GB of slow memory. 10% off the speed.

Final note: I finally got the lost SK HYNIX16GB DDR4-2666 stick. Matched it with a random Kingston stick same metrics, put it in the system and it ran fine 4x16 2400 64GB with the b550 3600. So ~$200 gets you slow 64. Note I can't find sticks for the price I got these for. $40-50. Now they are $60+.