Decade-old RAM is making a comeback
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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
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!?!?
Oh I thought they were talking about ddr3, maybe even ddr2. They're talking about ddr4? Homie I game on ddr4, it's perfectly fine
Hell I game on ddr3.
I mean most gaming you can do on ddr3, but when I play I play online competitive (csgo) so it matters slightly more. Most people will be fine with ddr3
I mean most gaming you can do on ddr4, but when I play I play online competitive (csgo) so it matters slightly more. Most people will be fine with ddr4
Yeah man let's please start posting on our own with sources and facts that aren't shit online sources out to make a buck with stupid headlines and old news.
Come on people...
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.
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!
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
So Linux Mint it is then? (Very "XP/Seven" like system IMO).
Kids always get the best gear (the shoemaker gets the worst shoes eh) so I was quite astonished that an old 6500T + 32GB (DDR4) is doing absolutely everything I need. It's been my daily workhorse since at least 2 years.
It is amazing to me how often I'll be presented with some old PC, some Optiplex or Ideapad or some other corporate/consumer sludge box that handles Windows 10 or 11 the way the human digestive system handles wet concrete, put Linux Mint on it and now it feels like my $2000 gaming PC until you really load it.
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 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.
AI won't pop. Politicians are cheap compared to data centers. The governments are just going to print more money to pay for this shit. At least that's what the cynic in me thinks.
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
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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.
Comeback nothing, I stacked everything with DDR4 when 5 stated getting popular because it was so crazy cheap.
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.
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...
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.