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If we're going to see retailers price-gouging on DDR5, maybe people will be willing to buy slightly older gear with DDR4 (and corresponding motherboard and CPU)
by neilv 11mo ago
If we're going to see retailers price-gouging on DDR5, maybe people will be willing to buy slightly older gear with DDR4 (and corresponding motherboard and CPU).
Especially for systems for which the workloads are actually bound by GPU compute, network, or storage.
- whalesalad 11mo agoI just snagged an Asrock Rack mobo (X570), 5900x and 128gb ecc ddr4 for $680. Felt like a steal with how memory prices are going these days, ECC to boot.
- wkat4242 11mo agoI'm still on DDR4 but I hope this price gouging will be over by the time I need to finally upgrade :( I have a Ryzen so I did upgrade to the latest AM4 generation.
- wmf 11mo agoDDR4 will be just as expensive because it's made in the same fabs.
- neilv 11mo agoI'm thinking second-hand and new-old-stock, with less demand for it.
- tempest_ 11mo agoNope, second hand is already evaporating. 2 months ago there were a load of second gen xeon scalable servers on offer. Now every one of them has had the ram stripped out and its just the chassis on offer. Fabs are not wasting their time on DDR4 now.
- neilv 11mo agoNice that people are recognizing that they don't need DDR5 for most workloads. I have some DDR4 that I'm not currently using, so I just posted it for sale. :)
- PunchyHamster 11mo agoNot really matter of choice, just budget
- abanana 11mo agoI've just looked up the current price of 2x8GB DDR4 I bought from CCL back in June for a basic PC for my mother. Was £34, now £75. That's nuts. Interesting to know the old stuff currently has value though.