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I mean, for most people, we hit the level of “does more than you could ever want” in the DDR2 era. For the average Instagram normie, what do they need from a Windows 11 PC that a Windows 7 machine couldn’t do?
Oh God I need to buy my ddr2 before you all start swarming for the new old stock.
Comeback nothing, I stacked everything with DDR4 when 5 stated getting popular because it was so crazy cheap.
My newest Proxmox node in my homelab is a ThinkPad T540p, 4th Gen i5 😂🫣 DDR3 is not dead yet, and to be fair with the f-ed up pricing, it makes even more sense
Their solution? A return to last-gen DDR4 RAM
I mean, DDR3 was still good enough in 2020…
The number of elecron apps and other ram hogs i am coming across says otherwise.
Companies shifting their dev costs to your hardware costs. This will not work long-term.
Once AI pops companies will shift compute back to their end because a) they have to find some way to use all that hardware, and b) end users are being starved of hardware. Desktop as a service extended to every device you use! Phone, laptop, TV, car, all of it will all have it’s brain in the cloud.
Decade-old RAM | DDR4 has returned.
Wait… no…
sudo lshw -class memory*-bank:0 description: DIMM DDR3 1866 MHz (0.5 ns)NOOOOOOOO!!!
DDR4 may be a decade old, but DDR5 is half a decade old.
Laughs in piles of 16 gig DDR3…
“…but there are so many of us!!!”
Spirit bombs DDR4 to oblivion
?If these dusty shelves had the motivation to sell all of my DDR3…
…but then again…why shouldn’t we keeps it???
I’m glad I upgraded from 32 GB to 64 GB in like 2022. I was annoyed at the time because the price per-gig had already doubled since I built the computer in late 2020. (And video cards were already more expensive than when I’d browsed in early 2020.)
Here’s the dumbest part, possibly beating any chicanery about neural networks - it’s because I ran two browsers. I was doing web dev with both Firefox and Chromium, and still routinely thrashing. Linux Mint’s cache behavior was the third stooge trying to fit through that doorway shoulder-to-shoulder, and suddenly thirty-two entire gigabytes was not enough memory to browse reddit in the orange window with video streaming in the blue window.
Time for decade old games to make a comeback then.
They never went away. Older games either. That’s because they don’t depend on online servers going dark.
Excuse me while I return to my Quake deathmatch.
This but xonotic
Thank you for this! I was totally unaware of that game and I will check it out asap!
Good to know I can at least upgrade my motherboard and processor without having to buy new memory. I ain’t giving up my 32gb.
Vote with your wallet. Don’t buy the new/refreshed CPUs and absolutely don’t use any AI products. Address the rrot cause not the symptom.
I only built my am4 system at the end of 2022, it’s new, not old :P
The way things are going it may end up with some of my sodimm in it by 2030
Jokes on you, I just bought parts for a new AM4 system yesterday. :) Though, to be fair, it’s just the CPU and motherboard. Using old memory.
- 5700x cpu $339aud (on sale from $489), now $310 on sale
- x570s gigabyte aorus master mobo $411aud (on sale from $522), now rare as hens teeth, on newegg for $700, on ebay for $900+
- ram 2x16 3200 $152aud, now 3 castles, both legs, and a pristine fully sealed snes.
mobo was a weird buy anyway though, but does make me wonder what the options and prices are like now for am4 systems. Maybe they will start releasing new boards, or rerelease old ones…
You paid more for your motherboard than your CPU? Why?
Multiple reasons at the time, most of which I don’t remember, one of them was wanting higher speed usb-c which wasn’t available on a lot of other boards, in hindsight it would have been better, and cheaper to get a pci-e to usb-c card. The board also has the error code read out, a thunderbolt add in card connector, WiFi 6E, 4 x m.2s.
There was/is also the potential to replace the cpu with an x3d. Although the 5700x was a very deliberate choice and I am happy with it. I was never planning on moving to am5.
