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Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases
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Next year it is going to be even lower with how prices are going. Upgrades are just not feasible anymore.
Glad I got a 9070XT just before everything went bust. I'll be sticking with DDR4 for a few years though.
I'm using 32GB of Corsair DDR4 I got back in 2016. Think I can safely say I got my moneys worth already and still intend to ride it into 2030 at this rate.
I hate to tell you this, but I had a DDR3 rig in 2011 and two of the four sticks of RAM died in 2021.
That means from regular gaming, the lifespan of RAM is about 10 years.
It's 2026 next year.
That's one datapoint and could depend on any number of factors, cooling manufacturer, uptime, etc. I have a couple of rigs 10+ years old running DDR3 with 0 failures. In fact in my lifetime I've only had one stick of ram ever go bad and that was ages ago and I tend to repurpose PCs a lot so they get some age on them.