palordrolap@palordrolap@fedia.io

Replying to @⁨apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world⁩

Sooo, hyperbole aside, I did a quick search on the site of the retailer I last obtained parts through, right before the prices exploded, and their cheapest 1x64GB RAM DDR5 stick is about £2320.

(Big assumption here that the motherboard only has four RAM slots. If you're going to cram 192GB onto it, you're going to need at least a couple of those, and preferably three, not 2x64+2x32, hence not looking at smaller capacity sticks.)

As I write, eBay has one seller with a single 1x64GB DDR5 at a quarter of that, which makes me think they must be going by pre-explosion pricing, but it also has something at well over £10k, four times the other way (and more), so at least logarithmically, the stand-alone retailer is right in the middle.

That means that this server is probably going to be well in excess of £10k when they finally ship it with full spec. If they're offering a warranty or support contract, probably around £20k. (Or £30k if they do the trick of simply changing the currency sign on a US dollar amount).

Pyotr@Pyotr@lemmy.world

Replying to @⁨palordrolap@fedia.io⁩

Not that it matters much since I think your math here checks out - but the framework desktop is all soldered memory, so no slots for memory needed. Likely some higher density chips used here than a 64GB DIMM stick. Point being, your estimate may still be optimistic!

Still don’t know why the company who prides itself on reparability and upgradibility even released a unit with unrepairable components, even given their latency justification.

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