This is cool. I just hope game developers also get on this bandwagon. We could use a 4-year moratorium on increasing minimum system requirements.
not gonna happen with GTA6 releasing soon
“Rescue”
Lol. What is the rescue if even DDR4 explodes? What does this help?DDR4 is already ridiculously expensive, just not quite as bad as DDR5
And no where near as much capacity. It’s a pretty terrible alternative.
Sticking to DDR3 until society finally collapses , I am also building a nice ddr2 build for super cheap that still runs all my physical games collection!
My DDR3 mini itx board already has the max capacity installed years ago, which was 16gb. It’s reached the ceiling :(
Just change the mobo man but stick to ddr3. I am gonna die on this hill man, computing died in 2013
I have love for this machine. It has a 6W TDP CPU and 16GB LPDDR3. Unfortunately the CPU is soldered to the board. Recently added a PCI expansion for 1 extra SATA slot for an extra disk. Works great, but it’s pretty much maxed out now. Gonna hold onto this for as long as it goes.
Ah, AM4.
At 10 years old, it’s still the platform that keeps on giving.
I’m running an AM4 Ryzen 9, with 64Gb of DDR4, and the thing cooks. AM4 is just great.
I’ve been happily sitting on my R5 2600x for so many years now lol. My MB is an MSI B450 Pro Carbon and it can easily handle a 5950x or 5800x3D or whatever.
Add another 2x8 gb ddr4 for 32GB total and I’ll be seeing some insane performance relative to what I’m already happy with, which will last me another 5 years easily unless the mobo dies.
It’s really insane how well designed AM4 is.
3 of my 4 desktops are running AM4. My main rig has a 5950x, the home theater PC has a 5500 and my wife’s gaming rig has a 5600. I rebuilt the HTPC several months ago and specifically went with AM4 for price to performance (and because it’s a Linux box)
And I’ll be running it for at least another ten…
Still runs everything well, so why not?
Economic growth. The government needs us consuming more so that they can create jobs, that’s the entire goal of inflation targeting.
Ha, that’s the funny part. They could have kept pumping out AM4 and taken market share slowly over time while making normal money, making normal jobs, but noooooo line must go up every quarter. So we instead got new products that are twice as much money (when ddr5 came out) that are less stable and not much better, and then to make line go up more fuck selling to people lets all do AI bullshit instead. And now we are in a world where now there is no current viable product, less jobs, and less money people are willing to spend on things that cost 5X what they should.
Youre complaining that they attempt to advance technology to acquire marketshare?
I’d agree that its an AI bubble, I can understand that at least. But those peoples money will be set on fire far more than you with a higher DDR price, as it was with the dotcom bubble; then you’ll get cheaper DDR.
Youre complaining that they attempt to advance technology to acquire marketshare?
Yes, it is a colossal industry wide issue of “needing” a new product in a rapidly decreasing window regardless of the utility of the product.
Chiplet designs and integrated GPU do benefit a lot from ram speed at least. So its speeding up CPU and GPU as well, providing a higher CPU core count and cheaper CPU.
The way things are going we’re going to need ddr3 mobos.
Been running an MSI motherboard, gpu, WD raptor, and haswell cpu since 2015-ish. My only regret is that I got the “K” version of the processor for overclocking, which lacks the VT-d extensions needed for virtualization goodies like gpu passthrough.
I still got mine with 32GB of ram. I will wait for it to appreciate in value and sell it to buy a house
So RAM is the name of the new crypto coin? 😅
I just bought 16Gb of DDR3L laptop memory for a low-power NAS I’m building, and even that cost almost 40 bucks.
And they called me a madman for spending months tuning the CO of my 5800X3D to its limits and also OCing my 3200 mhz Crucial Memory to 3800 Mhz. It seems this setup will stay with me until DDR6 arrives. I hope the prices get back to normal by then.
Fuck this I’m going back yo freedos.
Best games are DOS games bitches!!!
I know it’s not DOS per se but just getting into Caves of Qud and MAN I’m loving it.
I remember playing ASCII games as a kid, I gotta get back into it. There was a program or website where one could download community created ASCII games and I remember building one or two.
Doom Rogue Like.
Not sure if Jupiter Hell(successor by the creators) will run on dos though.
i thought ddr4 production was shutdown, are companies still making it or is this until that supply runs out too?
Unfortunately you can’t get X3D CPU for AM4 anymore.
You can, for $1000 plus by scalpers on ebay
