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  • SanX - Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - link

    Another IT pricefixing absurd is RAM: probably 100x the production cost
  • shabby - Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - link

    Don't jinx it or another catastrophe will happen in them dram plants and prices will skyrocket again.
  • Vatharian - Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - link

    It's not THAT bad, but still could be better. Looking at 2666 MT/s memory, normal Vengeance costs around $90-$110 per stick, which gives around ~$1200-$1300 per kit. Even with two (completely unnecessary) fans, that's over $300 premium over individual kits. Little nuts.

    Manufacturing costs for basic 16GB 2133 MT/s memory are in $43-49 (depending on DRAM source, in-house fab or bought @ auction) per stick AFAIK, and from there it only goes up due to binning. Heatspreaders add ~$3-5, couple bucks for packaging, and everything else is markup (they are not charity organizations, but corporations). Don't forget that markup is divided between manufacturer, distributor and endpoint retailer.
  • FunBunny2 - Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - link

    "Don't forget that markup is divided between manufacturer, distributor and endpoint retailer."

    only the first has any meaningful unit cost. warehouse space, per unit, is in the hundreths of a cent. manufacturing (really, assembly of OPP) isn't much, either.
  • Strunf - Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - link

    $300 over individual isn't nuts, unless it's a myth these kits are tested so all sticks are similar, and I'm guessing Corsair is picking already validated dual stick kits and validating them again on a 12x configuration, the extra ventilators with their assembly, plus some bulkier packaging, all that adds up.
  • shiromar - Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - link

    are these ECC?
  • Cullinaire - Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - link

    The phrase you're looking for is "eye-watering"
  • Ian Cutress - Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - link

    Depends if you are salivating or crying.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=mouth+watering
  • PeachNCream - Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - link

    I think "eye rolling" is a more appropriate reaction in this case.

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