“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?”
The key is which model, and how.
For the really sparse MoEs, you might be better off trying ik_llama.cpp, especially if you are targeting a ‘small’ quant. But the dense Gemma models (as good as they are) are probably not the best choice for 8G RAM these days.