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Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening

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192 points redohmy | 1 comments | 15 Nov 25 02:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.261s | source
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sbarre ◴[21 Nov 25 21:40 UTC] No.46009300[source]▶
I'm so mad about this, I need DDR5 for a new mini-PC I bought and prices have literally gone up by 2.5x..

128GB used to be 400$ in June, and now it's over $1,000 for the same 2x64GB set..

I have no idea if/when prices will come back down but it sucks.

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1. nyrikki ◴[22 Nov 25 02:23 UTC] No.46011491[source]▶
I just gave up and built an AM4 system with a 3090 because I had 128G of ddr4 udimms on hand the whole build was for less than just the memory would have cost for an AM5/ddr5 build.

Really wish that I could replace my old skylake-x system but even ddr4 rdimms for an older xeon are crazy now let alone ddr5. Unfortunately I need slots for 3xTitan V's for the 7.450 TFLOPS each of FP64. Even the 5090 only does 1.637 TFLOPS for FP64, so just hopping that old system keeps running.