DDR3 seemed plenty fast when it first showed up 19 years ago. Who could say no to 6400 Mb/s transfer speeds? Of course compared to the modern DDR5 that’s glacially slow, but given that RAM is…
  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 minutes ago

    I bought one of these 64GB packs for less than $50 not even a year ago

  • HiTekRedNek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    14 hours ago

    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. 🤣

  • termaxima@slrpnk.netEnglish
    20·
    16 hours ago

    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 !

    • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      12 minutes ago

      Also using 2019 hardware! I dread the day something dies, though. Luckily I upgraded to 32gb of RAM the last time it was super cheap. I’m hoping this machine has another ten years in it.

    • Yeller_king@reddthat.comEnglish
      4·
      16 hours ago

      I bought a new video card right after Trump won. But yeah now I’m ready to use my current hardware for a good long while.

      • REDACTED@infosec.pubEnglish
        12·
        16 hours ago

        I love how “After Trump won” is a legit basepoint when everything went to shit, even if unrelated (AI was going to happen regardless of politics)

    • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
      21·
      15 hours ago

      100%. I did get a 32gb mini pc this summer. win 11 is not as stable as win 10 on ddr3, mostly sleep/monitor issues. and 780m on ddr5 is about the same for gaming as 1660s on ddr3. Don’t chase gaming frame rates until prices get more reasonable. If you somehow don’t have a PC more recent than ddr3, then it’s not time to get into gaming, but upgrading cpu/gpu and an extra 16gb ram is likely the better value compared to new system.

  • Alchalide@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    13 hours ago

    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.

  • BanMe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    19 hours ago

    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…

  • flango@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
    3·
    16 hours ago

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

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    17 hours ago

    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.

  • acockworkorange@mander.xyzEnglish
    5·
    19 hours ago

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

    • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      20 hours ago

      Feels like it, but my gut feeling is “no” due to missing commas and no space before the em dash. Just a poorly written article.

  • anon_8675309@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    20 hours ago

    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.

    • Lfrith@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      I jumped on some large external HDD deals before storage took a jump. I don’t want to move to subscription cloud services like the billionaires want to happen.

      Wish I had gotten a m.2 2230 drive too for my Deck so I missed out on that.

  • RalfWausE@feddit.orgEnglish
    61·
    21 hours ago

    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.

    • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      19 hours ago

      Add a cheap 120GB SSD alongside the HD and it’ll give it whole new lease of life.

      • RalfWausE@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        19 hours ago

        Nah… i don’t trust SSD’s, had too many dying over the years without any form of warning.

        • Lfrith@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          6 hours ago

          I haven’t had any issues with my crucial and samsung ssds which I’ve had for many years. So might be brand related.

            • Lfrith@lemmy.caEnglish
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              3 hours ago

              I have multiple back ups of important stuff, so even if a drive died it wouldn’t be a big issue. But, what brand SSDs gave you troubles? Would like to know so I can stay away from those ones.

              • RalfWausE@feddit.orgEnglish
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                1 hour ago

                Yeah, i also have backups of my files… but every single time such a failure occured was when i under no circumstances needed a downtime like that (important project to finish, holidays where all shops are closed…) and i simply developed some superstition regarding SSDs.

                It also wasn’t brand specific, i had it happen with Sandisk and Verbatim so far.

                • Lfrith@lemmy.caEnglish
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                  19 minutes ago

                  Yeah that is pretty unusual. I haven’t had a single ssd failure even still using the first one I ever got in addition to others I put in old laptops so I wouldn’t be stuck on slow hdd.

        • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          3·
          19 hours ago

          SandForce controller?

          I’ve never had a newer SSD fail on me. knocks wood I’ve got 3 in my computer, all the spinny-spinny-crashies are gone.

          Anyway, the idea behind the cheap small SSD is that you only put your OS and generic software on it, not your photos and personal data that you can’t afford to lose.

  • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    17 hours ago

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

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

  • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
    141·
    2 days ago

    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…