Solder-It-Yourself DDR5: Russian modders pitch the Idea of making their own RAM

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• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hey, would you like to buy some dehydrated water?

  Easily produce your own water whenever you need it!

  To make 1 liter of water, just add 1 liter of water!

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• markz@suppo.fi ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Problem solved! Just need to source some ram to make the ram

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Just buy two old 8GB ddr3 sticks and solder them together to make a 16GB ddr6 stick? Cheaper and one better than ddr5.

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  • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think it still needs ddr5 modules, might be more useful if it could use LDDR5 modules, then could get old phones with broken screens and desolder the ram…

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• Nollij@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There’s still the same key problem - the memory chips have a very low available supply. Increasing the supply requires new semiconductor fabs to be built, which takes a very long time.

  Outside of that, I guess it could be described as right-to-repair. If you have a bad stick of RAM, it’s likely that some or all of the chips are still good and could be reused.

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• comador@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Still waiting for that DDR5 update so I can download more RAM… Funny how old memes can make a full recovery to relevance.

  downloadmoreram.com

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  • ChaosMonkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Using zram genuinely feels like downloading ram.

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    • xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m assuming you’re using it as swap so you can take advantage of the compression? Sounds like there’d be a performance hit, but maybe turning half your RAM into compressed swap is better than using an SSD as swap?

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Oh so they’re going to open their own fab are they?

  Their solution to the RAM shortage problem is for the RAM shortage problem to in fact not exist. Obviously that doesn’t work.

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  • themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It will work if you have a extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine to make the RAM chips.

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• ranzispa@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean, this is understandable. But how much are you actually saving to justify the extra work? How many ICs can you burn and still be saving money?

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