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Re:I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit by cyberax on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @04:08PM (#48299856)
> Dell wanted >$90K a couple months ago to add 256GB to each node.

RAM is expensive, but not THAT expensive. I just bought 128Gb for about $5k for our build cluster (it's not even for AI, sigh). Even if you need larger-sized DIMM sticks, it's still going to be in the vicinity of ~15k tops.

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Re:I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit by kees99 on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @04:16PM (#48299967)
> I just bought 128Gb for about $5k

Last year people were reportedly building a complete server with 1TB RAM for less than that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42897205

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Re:I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit by EvanAnderson on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @04:56PM (#48300545)
It was crazy. I found the part on the open market for a lot less but the edict from the Customer was to buy from Dell to keep the support entitlement intact. That inflated the price to an astronomical level to be sure.

I haven't had problems w/ Dell support and 3rd party memory, personally, but given the machines' application I understood the concern.

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