32GB of RAM from old hardware might as well be trash compared to 32GB of RAM made today.
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partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What I’m surprised hasn’t happened yet is RAM ICs being recycled at the retail level. As in, you could bring in an old laptop or phone with 32GB of soldered RAM and it would be desoldered and sold for cash or possibly even soldered into a new device you buy from that retailer.
I wonder how close we are to that business model arriving.
null@lemmy.org 1 day ago
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
null@lemmy.org 22 hours ago
What good is all that (slow) RAM if you’re stuck with an equally slow CPU?
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Its not an equally slow CPU. These boards support Xeon CPUs that first launched 11 years after DDR3.
The implication is that there are users needing large RAM footprints that aren’t CPU bound. The hit in performance on the RAM isn’t significant enough to justify spending orders of magnitude more for modern DDR5 which is in short supply.
In computing history there’s precedent for this. Amiga computers had a small amount of “Fast RAM” which was extremely expensive, but the CPU cloud address a second bank of “Chip RAM” which was significantly slower but much much cheaper.
We could see this idea return in modern computers.
Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How many 16k 4116 RAM chips can your laptop handle?
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
4116s are DIPs. I’d de desolder those myself for installation into my Intel 8088 luggable.
Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I want to be there when you set that up on the table for your next departmental meeting.