My newest Proxmox node in my homelab is a ThinkPad T540p, 4th Gen i5 😂🫣 DDR3 is not dead yet, and to be fair with the f-ed up pricing, it makes even more sense

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Their solution? A return to last-gen DDR4 RAM

I mean, DDR3 was still good enough in 2020…

Decade-old RAM | DDR4 has returned.

Wait… no…

sudo lshw -class memory

*-bank:0 description: DIMM DDR3 1866 MHz (0.5 ns)

NOOOOOOOO!!!

DDR4 may be a decade old, but DDR5 is half a decade old.

Time for decade old games to make a comeback then.

If these dusty shelves had the motivation to sell all of my DDR3…

…but then again…why shouldn’t we keeps it???

I’m glad I upgraded from 32 GB to 64 GB in like 2022. I was annoyed at the time because the price per-gig had already doubled since I built the computer in late 2020. (And video cards were already more expensive than when I’d browsed in early 2020.)

Here’s the dumbest part, possibly beating any chicanery about neural networks - it’s because I ran two browsers. I was doing web dev with both Firefox and Chromium, and still routinely thrashing. Linux Mint’s cache behavior was the third stooge trying to fit through that doorway shoulder-to-shoulder, and suddenly thirty-two entire gigabytes was not enough memory to browse reddit in the orange window with video streaming in the blue window.

Vote with your wallet. Don’t buy the new/refreshed CPUs and absolutely don’t use any AI products. Address the rrot cause not the symptom.

Good to know I can at least upgrade my motherboard and processor without having to buy new memory. I ain’t giving up my 32gb.

I only built my am4 system at the end of 2022, it’s new, not old :P

The way things are going it may end up with some of my sodimm in it by 2030