Technology

Bought my am5 pc late 2023, bought extra storage and a new phone last summer. I don't need anything right now but I can't wait for this bubble to pop.

I bought an 8G ECC RDIMM DDR4 the other day for 15 bucks cash.

Guy around my age who "bought the wrong kind" for his laptop, and forgot about it until it was too late to return it.

I'm gonna hold onto it a little longer, then see if I can't make 30 or 40 bucks off it. 🤣

My take : Prices got you down ? Keep the hardware you already have ! No one else can upgrade anyway, games requirements aren't going up anytime soon.

Obviously that doesn't cover you if you don't already have a machine, in which case I would go DDR3.

But for those who do, does anyone upgrade anymore ? I'm on 2019 hardware and everything runs perfectly good. Oftentimes great !

My pc uses DDR2 and it runs Linux with no problem. I can even game, just not the new ones

Sure, you can do that. You might as well be gaming on a Steam Deck though, because that's the level of CPU you'd be limited to.

Which is fine, I've got a Legion Go S, it works fine as long as you're aware of the limitations.

But if I want the AAA big screen shiz, I'm loading up something on my PS5.

I retire PCs at the college I work at. They get stacked in the basement waiting on an inventory/recycling procedure that will never happen because we're a satellite campus and the basement is the tomb of technology. Went down there the other day to bring a retired PC up to replace a very old lab PC that died. The HD had been removed by a colleague - fine, that's procedure - and then I realized all the RAM had been stripped out. Dozens and dozens of PCs with nary a stick. "If you're selling that RAM, I want in on it" I told him. He laughed nervously and said no, but wouldn't say where it all was.

I am not kidding, I want halfsies...

DDR3 isn't still what everyone's using anyway?

Huh, I guess it has been a few years since I looked in to RAM...

I had 96 GB DDR3 for sale and no one even looked at the ad. $20.

Here I was thinking they were recommending a game that ran well with low RAM or something. Like WTF is Dead Dead Redemption 3?

I write this post from a Core2Quad machine with 8 GB of DDR2 RAM and a spinning harddisk... and the system feels quiet fast and nimble.

Did an AI write this?

Found 16GB DDR4 from and old swap the other day. I’m protecting that stuff like it’s an investment now. But seriously, def hanging on to it just in case anything dies.

On the look out for storage deals now. But I’m not hopeful.

I hadn't actually looked up any numbers on the RAM shortage. Less than a year ago I got 2 8GB sticks of no-name PC3200 DDR4 for less than $25. I didn't even really need it for my use-case, but it was so cheap that "why not" felt like a perfectly viable reason to upgrade to 32GB total. Six years ago I got the original two-pack of 8GB sticks for $75. Now that same amount of old-ass DDR4 would be $90-$100. Jeezus. No upgrades for me for a while.

DDr3 works well with Linux (and older Windows OS) for many applications. Just don't play games, and don't use AI for a while - you'll be smooth sailing for a few years before prices fall. Use other devices instead - phones/tablets.

some people (...) are asking “can you game on DDR3“? The answer is a shocking yes.

"shocking". Really?

Browsing the internet as a third worlder always give me these eye-rolling moments. Sigh...

Im still on ddr3 and an amd fx. I can play every game except Alan wake 2.

I dont play most aaa slop though.