return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoThe RAM shortage is coming for everything you care aboutwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square339fedilinkarrow-up1864arrow-down116
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minus-squarenull@lemmy.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·12 hours ago32GB of RAM from old hardware might as well be trash compared to 32GB of RAM made today.
minus-squarepartial_accumen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 hours agoI’m not sure you’re caught up to current events. DDR3, from 2007, is making a comeback because of supply shortages of newer RAM. New modern motherboards are being manufactured that can take this old RAM because its available and still cheap enough.
minus-squarenull@lemmy.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoWhat good is all that (slow) RAM if you’re stuck with an equally slow CPU?
32GB of RAM from old hardware might as well be trash compared to 32GB of RAM made today.
I’m not sure you’re caught up to current events. DDR3, from 2007, is making a comeback because of supply shortages of newer RAM. New modern motherboards are being manufactured that can take this old RAM because its available and still cheap enough.
What good is all that (slow) RAM if you’re stuck with an equally slow CPU?