GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere
arstechnica.com
Some RAM kits are over three times as expensive as they were three months ago.
  • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    AI or servers probably. I have 40gb and that’s what I would need more ram for.

    I’m still salty because I had the idea of going cpu & ram sticks for AI inference literally days before the big AI companies. And my stupid ass didn’t buy them in time before the prices skyrocketed. Fuck me I guess.

    • panda_abyss@lemmy.caEnglish
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      17 days ago

      I’m often using 100gb of cram for ai.

      Earlier this year I was going to buy a bunch of 1tb ram used servers and I wish I had.

        • kossa@feddit.orgEnglish
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          16 days ago

          Yep, used ECC server RAM DDR3 or DDR4 is basically thrown out. Unfortunately most consumer mainboards do not support ECC.

          • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            16 days ago

            This is exactly the reason I’m about to order a dell poweredge r630 with Intel xeon 2680 v4 from alibaba.

            Also I’ve never ordered from alibaba before so we’ll see if I get scammed xd

    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      17 days ago

      It does work, but it’s not really fast. I upgraded to 96gb ddr4 from 32gb a year or so ago, and being able to play with the bigger models was fun, but it’s not something I could do anything productive with it was so slow.