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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
Decade-old RAM | DDR4 has returned.
Wait… no…
sudo lshw -class memory*-bank:0 description: DIMM DDR3 1866 MHz (0.5 ns)NOOOOOOOO!!!
If these dusty shelves had the motivation to sell all of my DDR3…
…but then again…why shouldn’t we keeps it???
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.
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
?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?
Well there’s certainly no improvements in the user experience, but they need more RAM to run all the user analytics and data harvesting
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!
If you’re young: Let’s start having fun with tech!
If you’re old: Let’s start having fun with tech again!
Tinkering and learning skills like soldering and reviving so called ‘e-waste’ is pretty fun and rewarding.
Old tech is fascinating to learn about and you can choose any era you want!
Going backwards means going forwards!
Oh God I need to buy my ddr2 before you all start swarming for the new old stock.
My stockpile of EDO will finally be worth something!
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.
Fair enough. That said: I built an AM5 system at pretty much the exact same time as you did and IIRC, I ended up paying less for a more powerful CPU and newer platform.
Get back to me when you need to replace your ram :P
One of the reasons I went with AM4 was platform maturity, at the time AM5 was new (launched sept 2022).
My prices are in aud btw (if you didn’t notice).
Bigger number better is also not how I do things, and it isn’t the direction that tech should have moved.
My choices of a 5700x and a 6800 (non xt) were very deliberate due to performance/efficiency. I could have easily gone to a x3d and a higher end graphics card.
I have no regrets about what I chose, aside from I should have just gone with a b series board, and maybe a different case, I wanted a non glass case that could hold at least 3 hdd’s, and (at least in Australia) that was more difficult than it should have been, due ot silly people and their silly lights = glass sided cases being the norm. I ended up with a Be Quiet Silent Base 802, which is okay, but could be better, and could be smaller (I should have originally bought 2x 8,10, 02 12Tb hdd’s, instead of 3x 6Tb)
The SSD on my parents 10 year old PC died and they were able to get an upgrade through dad’s work. They offered me the old machine.
16GB of DDR4. I hit the goddamn jackpot.
