Hope I’m not stupid for saying this but I haven’t been able to tell the difference between DDR3 and DDR4
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Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Ddr3 was kind of the point where the technology stopped incrementing with large jumps.
Not saying ddr3 is as good as ddr4 or 5 but I used ddr3 until 2021 with no issue.
Inkstainthebat@pawb.social 3 days ago
Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Honestly, I don’t feel a difference since switching to ddr4. I just had to for my new motherboard, that’s all.
mohammed_alibi@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yep, it works fine for my day to day stuff. And runs many games just fine. I still run my Ivy Bridge Xeon CPU (bought for cheap years ago). Pair a X79 chipset, Xeon with quad channel memory, and say an Arc A770. You can do many modern tasks and games just fine. And for cheap.
PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
I’m still using DDR3 as I haven’t upgraded my computer in like 6years. It’s fine. I can play most games at 4k and I’m rocking an Nvidia 4070. I don’t really see any compelling reason to upgrade until GTA6 comes out. (I can play gta5 just fine)
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Same but 2024. I missed all of DDR4. Jumped straight from 3 to 5.
prettybunnys@piefed.social 4 days ago
I’ve noticed my ram speed much less than the amount of ram for quite some time.
SSDs were game changers.
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 4 days ago
My mom and dad both have ancient machines at home and I swapped both to SATA SSDs. The improvement was incredible. They went from basically unusable, in my opinion, to completely functional for anything they would be doing.
maccentric@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I went 2 to 4, and honestly my 5800x w 32GB DDR4 @3800 from 2020 is still just fine, hopefully till this shitshow shakes out.
gerryflap@feddit.nl 3 days ago
Yeah I’m on a 5700 or something with 64 GB of DDR4 and I don’t see any issues with it yet. I went that route because I could keep my mobo and it was also way cheaper than DDR5 back then. I figured I’d rather have more older RAM than a full system upgrade.
Is RAM already at a price that it’s worth considering selling one of those sticks? :3
gerryflap@feddit.nl 3 days ago
Yeah I’m on a 5700 or something with 64 GB of DDR4 and I don’t see any issues with it yet. I went that route because I could keep my mobo and it was also way cheaper than DDR5 back then. I figured I’d rather have more older RAM than a full system upgrade.
Is RAM already at a price that it’s worth considering selling one of those sticks? :3