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DDR4 costs soar as manufacturers pull the plug — panic buying and stockpiling impact DDR4 spot pricing as supply dwindles (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 31 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Shouldn't be a problem for me - I plan to skip DDR4 and go straight to DDR5, or maybe what comes after, at some point. Still running 32GB DDR3 here.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    What kind of speeds you get on that old DDR3?

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    I'm not sure - I don't measure it. It's in my home server running Linux. It does everything I want and is >90% idle most of the time - so it's fast enough. And I just realized I lied in my original comment - my laptop has DDR4 RAM, but it's already at max. capacity so I won't have to worry about buying more.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I am in the same boat. I am waiting for a CPU that properly handles more then 128gb of memory while not costing 5 grand.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    What kind of tasks do you do that require over one hundred gigabytes of RAM? Just curious. Video editing?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Virtualization, container's, databases to name a few. Mostly hobby though. But I do not need a thread ripper. It would be nice but the huge price jump is not worth it. Unfortunately HEDT is dead.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    You must run a bunch of stuff, I imagine.

    But yeah, a Threadripper with 96 cores runs at 11k+ USD where I live. There are cheaper ones, like half of that. But that's still no joke. 5k is still more than I paid for my entire new beefy computer with a 9950X3D, 9070 XT, 64 GB DDR5, 2 TB 9100 Pro SSD, and a 24 TB HDD, plus a very high-end motherboard.

    All that, cheaper than a single Threadripper. 😅

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah also with Ryzen you quickly run in to PCIe lane limits. 2 GPUs a fiber nic and say 1 HBA and your over the limit

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