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Posted by 1potato 1 day ago

The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4(www.theverge.com)
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lousken 11 hours ago|
This will drive linux adoption like nothing else.
jmclnx 9 hours ago||
>But at least it’s a good time to hang onto your DDR4 RAM.

A year and a half ago I bought 2 new 8G DDR4 for 47 USD. I was going to use it to upgrade my W541 from 16G to 32G. The W541 has 4 slots. But seems the one I have maxs out at 16.

Now I have another reason t hang on to the RAM :)

nickpsecurity 10 hours ago||
My idea was taking 20+ year old designs that are patent-free, implementing them on any modern nodes that work (esp MOSIS-supported), their performance per watt will probably be better, and just use those. Some of the old designs, like NonStop architecture or MPP clusters, still have amazing benefits.
flanked-evergl 17 hours ago||
My Home PC is from 2019, it has DDR4, it gets most things done, and I have never felt it was sluggish or anything. Maybe not the best gaming rig, but I get by.
OptionX 17 hours ago|
I built my current home pc on the cusp of the transition of ddr4 to ddr5 and ddr5 was at the time out of my budget so I went with ddr4 and I can still play modern games fine with 32gb even at 2k. I might not max out everything but that was never a priority for me. Usually besides resolution I seldom touch the graphical settings if the game is running ok. In fact the only thing I upgraded one it until now was my GPU since that was a holdover from my previous one.

Home server also runs ddr4 and does ok, but that has been hitting more cpu bottlenecks now rather than memory.

That said its kinda sad personal users are getting tossed back a generation due to current generation ram being almost all gobbled up for AI.

flanked-evergl 13 hours ago||
We are getting tossed back a generation, but we are also becoming as rare as chicken teeth. Most people do not own a Desktop PC, most people don't even own a Laptop any longer. To do the most good for the most people requires datacentres at the moment, and it will probably remain like that for the forseeable future.
203ej0h4h43 17 hours ago||
row, row, row your hammer, gently down the bit flip stream...
christkv 16 hours ago||
The crazy thing is knowing so many of the produced GPUs are just sitting in storage collecting dust because they don't have anywhere to plug them in and even where they have space do not have the power to run them. So basically the whole RAM situation is driven by things that are sitting dark in storage.
PunchyHamster 14 hours ago|
Not GPUs. AI chips. no benefit to the customer
everyone 15 hours ago||
I am still using the machine I built in 2017.. Prices for GPUs have been consistently insane since shortly after then, (NFT-idiots, crypto-bros, now AI-twats) and now ram.. My work setup uses 100% of my ram now though. I'd like to double my ram by getting 2 more of the same sticks I have in it.. But the exact same sticks of DDR4 now cost more than they did in 2017.
syntex 8 hours ago||
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shric 16 hours ago|
Please consider being more civil when you post, you’ll probably find it more enjoyable in the long run.

The archive link was posted [1] long before you posted. Also from the HN FAQ [2]:

> Are paywalls ok?

It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50040452

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Tade0 11 hours ago|||
The archive link looks dead.
shric 2 hours ago||
Works for me
PunchyHamster 14 hours ago|||
Yes, let's encourage absolute minimum effort when posting!