Ah, AM4.
At 10 years old, it’s still the platform that keeps on giving.
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.
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? 😅
Just bought an asus maximus vii with 16 gig ram and core i7 4790k used for 140 euro. it was top of the line in 2014, and will hopefully last the kid as first system until prices come down. but prices are ao shitty
Good choice. This is perfectly reasonable CPU
I look forward to it. Decent first system and later the joy of upgraded Hardware. Hope the kid likes it as well :)
No joke: I just built a low-end server based on DDR3. Got 32 GB for 40 EUR.
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.
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.
i thought ddr4 production was shutdown, are companies still making it or is this until that supply runs out too?
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.
Unfortunately you can’t get X3D CPU for AM4 anymore.
You can, for $1000 plus by scalpers on ebay
