Decade-old RAM is making a comeback

3 days ago by cm0002 to c/pcgaming

Somehow, DDR4 has returned.
LodeMike 60 points 3 days ago

DDR4 may be a decade old, but DDR5 is half a decade old.

path: 0 26257866, hotness: undefined, score: 60, children: 1
brem 20 points 3 days ago

Laughs in piles of 16 gig DDR3...

"...but there are so many of us!!!!"

Spirit bombs DDR4 to oblivion

path: 0 26257866 26257893, hotness: undefined, score: 20, children: 0
snoons 50 points 2 days ago

Decade-old RAM | DDR4 has returned.

Wait... no...

sudo lshw -class memory

*-bank:0 description: DIMM DDR3 1866 MHz (0.5 ns)

NOOOOOOOO!!!

path: 0 26258702, hotness: undefined, score: 50, children: 0
brem 33 points 3 days ago

If these dusty shelves had the motivation to sell all of my DDR3....

...but then again...why shouldn't we keeps it!?!?

path: 0 26257872, hotness: undefined, score: 33, children: 0
pineapplelover 22 points 2 days ago

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

path: 0 26272988, hotness: undefined, score: 22, children: 4
kalpol 6 points 2 days ago

Hell I game on ddr3.

path: 0 26272988 26273204, hotness: undefined, score: 6, children: 2
pineapplelover 1 point 2 days ago

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

path: 0 26272988 26273204 26274121, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 1
Valmond 3 points a day ago

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

path: 0 26272988 26273204 26274121 26276264, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0
stinkytofuisgood 1 point a day ago

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...

path: 0 26272988 26274707, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0
assembly 17 points 3 days ago

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.

path: 0 26257930, hotness: undefined, score: 17, children: 0
mrfriki 14 points 2 days ago

Time for decade old games to make a comeback then.

path: 0 26258981, hotness: undefined, score: 14, children: 3
ExtremeDullard 20 points 2 days ago

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.

path: 0 26258981 26259607, hotness: undefined, score: 20, children: 2
sounddrill 4 points 2 days ago

This but xonotic

path: 0 26258981 26259607 26261078, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 1
ExtremeDullard 1 point 2 days ago

Thank you for this! I was totally unaware of that game and I will check it out asap!

path: 0 26258981 26259607 26261078 26266747, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0
captain_aggravated 13 points 2 days ago

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?

path: 0 26270535, hotness: undefined, score: 13, children: 3
five_bucks 6 points 2 days ago

Well there’s certainly no improvements in the user experience, but they need more RAM to run all the user analytics and data harvesting

path: 0 26270535 26271707, hotness: undefined, score: 6, children: 0
Valmond 3 points a day ago

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.

path: 0 26270535 26276257, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 1
captain_aggravated 3 points a day ago

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.

path: 0 26270535 26276257 26283387, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0
brackled 13 points 3 days ago

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.

path: 0 26258142, hotness: undefined, score: 13, children: 0
MonkderVierte 12 points 2 days ago

Their solution? A return to last-gen DDR4 RAM

I mean, DDR3 was still good enough in 2020...

path: 0 26260907, hotness: undefined, score: 12, children: 4
Jacob_Mandarin 2 points 2 days ago

The number of elecron apps and other ram hogs i am coming across says otherwise.

path: 0 26260907 26264199, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 3
MonkderVierte 3 points 2 days ago

Companies shifting their dev costs to your hardware costs. This will not work long-term.

path: 0 26260907 26264199 26264582, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 2
nik282000 2 points 2 days ago

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.

path: 0 26260907 26264199 26264582 26270333, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 1
j5y7 1 point 2 days ago

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.

path: 0 26260907 26264199 26264582 26270333 26272661, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0
LammyToGo32 12 points 2 days ago

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

path: 0 26261405, hotness: undefined, score: 12, children: 0
bad1080 11 points 2 days ago

image
?

path: 0 26260875, hotness: undefined, score: 11, children: 1
HugeNerd 3 points 2 days ago

path: 0 26260875 26265337, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0
stinkytofuisgood 8 points a day ago

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!

path: 0 26274674, hotness: undefined, score: 8, children: 0
ArsonButCute 7 points 2 days ago

Oh God I need to buy my ddr2 before you all start swarming for the new old stock.

path: 0 26264376, hotness: undefined, score: 7, children: 0
Sawblade02 4 points 2 days ago

Comeback nothing, I stacked everything with DDR4 when 5 stated getting popular because it was so crazy cheap.

path: 0 26266322, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 0
Decipher0771 3 points a day ago

My stockpile of EDO will finally be worth something!

path: 0 26280505, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0
dusk 3 points 3 days ago

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

path: 0 26258661, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 2
SuiXi3D 3 points 2 days ago

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.

path: 0 26258661 26258864, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 1
dusk 3 points 2 days ago
  • 5700x cpu $339aud (on sale from $489), now $310 on sale
  • x570s gigabyte aorus master mobo $411aud (on sale from $522), now rare as hens teeth, on newegg for $700, on ebay for $900+
  • ram 2x16 3200 $152aud, now 3 castles, both legs, and a pristine fully sealed snes.

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...

path: 0 26258661 26258864 26259570, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0
RacerX 1 point 18 hours ago

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.

path: 0 26286437, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0
pcgaming
pcgaming

@lemmy.ca

login for more options
15626
8541
4822

For PC gaming news and discussion. PCGamingWiki

Rules:

  1. Be Respectful.
  2. No Spam or Porn.
  3. No Advertising.
  4. No Memes.
  5. No Tech Support.
  6. No questions about buying/building computers.
  7. No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
  8. No Let's Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
  9. No off-topic posts/comments, within reason.
  10. Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates. (Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources. If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)

go to feed...