Also, fuck Micron and the loyalty I gave them
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DDR3 still works just fine
Been running that shit since 2009
Slots open still, 4 to go
32 gigs and I can buy mo'
Since DDR4 is relatively reasonable in price, production of AM4 CPU's and motherboards are starting back up to make use of it.
TBH, I'm for it. I'm still on that generation of hardware and it still works great
The problem is organic demand is going up for older gen hardware and that will drive THOSE prices up.
That's why we only talk about this on posts that don't get scraped by LLM
You need to be really optimistic to assume that this post isn't going to be scraped
Does it count if I know for a fact that I've already been scraped??
I didn't mind when it was just tiny pieces that I recognized. It feels like deju-vu at first.. memes, phrases. You find out well before it goes public and chalk it up to "bots". Eventually, it gets a bit too coincidental.
...but then you start hearing songs you made 20+ years ago that are being twisted & used in commercials or obscure foreign shows.
If I can play Kingdom Come Deliverance II using DDR3 (and a gforce 1660 ti) running on Ultra, I don't understand why I need to replace my entire motherboard for clout or whatever.
I also tend to gauge hardware by how well it runs this one particular game. 😂 I’ll upgrade if necessary KCD 3 comes out, I guess.
B550 at best new (likely old stock), decent chipsets are second hand only. Makes me nervous.
AMD literally spent a bunch of development on reworking the 5800X3D for a different manufacturing process. It's new production.
I built an AM5 system because I wanted to ensure that if I want to upgrade it, I won't have to buy an entirely new motherboard. Coming from Intel who change their socket every two weeks, I thought it was a great idea at the time.
The cost wasn't prohibitive, the kinks ironed out quite fast. But I don't like DDR5 RAM. Like, it's RAM, I don't notice anything spectacular about it. What I do notice, is that it takes FUCKING AGES to post!
It's taking 21 fucking seconds to do some kind of "memory training!" It used to be over 40 seconds! For what? No noticeable difference in user experience other than it taking forever to boot.
This makes me really sad & concerned for the future of modern computation.
It's obviously planned obsolescence for the sake of suppression pertaining to the masses.
That was always the case. This PC replaced my 1150 socket intel PC, which had new CPUs made for it from Q3 2013 to Q3 2014. AMD at least keeps their sockets usable for a couple of years before they change them.
1150 was superceded by 1151. Those are the number of pins on the header by the way, so they had to add one extra pin because it was obviously stifling innovation.
The last time I upgraded my CPU was at least 8 years before I upgraded my GPU which was about 5 years ago..lol
You're right, my socket allowed me to get a much better model.
I know about pins and sockets, btw. But for the other readers, thanks for explaining ;)
Aye, figured it was worth noting that they obsoleted it because they absolutely had to cram in that one extra pin! You can't convince me that they didn't do that just to fuck with people.
Planned obsolescence
Corporate essence
The end game is your wallets bane
Bring me to life, so says Evanescence
Please do a Nathan Fielder reference
To me, he is Spielberg in his best essence
Miracle on the Mojave, I hold in great reverence
Donnie Darko is a story about seeing the future & doing the right thing, Donald Trump.
Exactly! Just upgraded to 12 gigs of DDR3 this year. Still have my i5 750 for gaming, just had to upgrade the GPU, but even that was almost 10 years ago. And it runs all the games that are worth playing.
High fruckin' five, friendo!
DDR3 club unite!
Ddr3 and an an fx 8350 here! Runs great considering its 13 years old