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teft@piefed.social 2 days agoPersonally i’d rather pay more than have these assholes tracking my viewing habits. But you could throw ddr4 in it. Should be fine for a simple HTPC.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I don’t get the whole ram catagories. DDR3, DDR4, DDR5. They make it seem like the higher the number, the better the ram, but I always thought ram was just a space for computers to temporarily store information until it was ready to call on it.
So from my perspective 16GB DDR3 should be the same as 16GB DDR5. But that’s clearly not the case.
teft@piefed.social 2 days ago
The biggest differences are speed and max amount of ram per module. For a htpc those shouldn’t matter much. I wouldn’t personally go to ddr3 unless I had some free sticks hanging out since the spec is about 20 years old now.
4am@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
DDR3 is also pretty power hungry. Source: me, who built a homelab out of old DDR3 rackmount servers and can now no longer afford to run them.