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Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts (www.tomshardware.com)
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"I've been saving for months to get the Corsair Dominator 64GB CL30 kit," one beleagured PC builder wrote on Reddit. "It was about $280 when I looked," said u/RaidriarT, "Fast forward today on PCPartPicker, they want $547 for the same kit? A nearly 100% increase in a couple months?"

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[–] Bongles@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 day ago (14 children)

This seems like an appropriate place for me to bitch:

2 months ago I bought a new pre-built pc. It should've had 64gb of ram but had 32gb. They said the sticks they used were out of stock so they gave me a credit for $100 USD. I spent the 100 on 32gb more of what I thought was the exact same ram. I fucked up and bought a slightly higher speed so they wouldn't work together after I tried for an afternoon. I also checked the correct listing i should've bought but it was more expensive, at about $125.

I gave up and decided I'd just buy the faster ram again when it came back, rather than return it and get the correct one. It went out of stock in the time it took me to get my order so I figured I'd just wait.

2 MONTHS later, it never came back in stock but an almost identical pair, with slightly different timing, is in stock right now at $216. If i had any idea this was coming in just 2 months, I could've just bought 64gb at once and started fresh, or corrected my mistake by returning what I bought.

So i guess I'll continue waiting, but hey at least notepad has copilot in it.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

could be a bios setting that allows your ram to work at lower speed.

[–] Bongles@lemmy.zip 1 points 21 hours ago

I'll bet there is, but I gave it a solid few hours without really knowing what I was doing

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