• morto@piefed.socialEnglish
    33·
    3 个月前

    Stick to your hardware, people. If you buy overpriced stuff, you’re signaling that you accept their manipulating practices and making them even richer

    Also, it’s not like there has been some high new advancement that puts our current stuff out of competitiveness

  • cally@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    5·
    3 个月前

    Are DDR4 prices also bad? Might have to switch to DDR3. I don’t even know what the differences between them are, all I know is the lower numbers are generally slower. I bet I could game and use my PC with DDR3 though. Or is last-last-generation also expensive now?

    I guess the only issue is that my motherboard supports DDR4 and not DDR3, so I’d have to either use my really old PC (which barely manages to run a Minecraft server) or buy a new motherboard that supports my processor and DDR3 (it’s unlikely such a board exists, AM4 slot + DDR3 slot, really?)

    Anyway, I’ll just hope my 16 gigs never “go bad”. I never had DDR5, and I sure won’t be having it now…

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialBanned from communityEnglish
      4·
      3 个月前

      Tl;Dr it’s faster and uses less power so it’s just better for everything

      If you’re not playing new AAA games you don’t actually need it though, for now.

      • DaPorkchop_ [any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        3 个月前

        that’s still almost doubled from what it was a while back - i bought a bunch of 16GiB DDR3 ECC sticks about 3 years ago for $20 each

    • JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      3 个月前

      Well, also less ram on stick and older CPUs (ram isn’t backwards compatible).

      I can’t even find where to buy DDR5 in my country (but it’s Slovenia so…).

  • lyralycan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    3 个月前

    I caved and bought some, 2x16GB KLEVV DDR5 6000MTs CL30 for £360, believing the predictions. If it actually lowers by March next year I’ll be so sad