That’s one datapoint and could depend on any number of factors, cooling manufacturer, uptime, etc. I have a couple of rigs 10+ years old running DDR3 with 0 failures. In fact in my lifetime I’ve only had one stick of ram ever go bad and that was ages ago and I tend to repurpose PCs a lot so they get some age on them.
I hate to tell you this, but I had a DDR3 rig in 2011 and two of the four sticks of RAM died in 2021.
That means from regular gaming, the lifespan of RAM is about 10 years.
It’s 2026 next year.
That’s one datapoint and could depend on any number of factors, cooling manufacturer, uptime, etc. I have a couple of rigs 10+ years old running DDR3 with 0 failures. In fact in my lifetime I’ve only had one stick of ram ever go bad and that was ages ago and I tend to repurpose PCs a lot so they get some age on them.