RegularJoe@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoMSI's $80 AMD motherboards with DDR4 support swoop in to rescue gamers amid the global RAM crisiswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square65linkfedilinkarrow-up1297arrow-down12
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minus-squarepalordrolap@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up54·5 months agoDDR4 is cheaper than DDR5, sure, but retailers have jacked the price of both by the same percentage, so it’s not really all that much of a rescue. I expect people will need a full mortgage to pay for DDR6 when it comes out next year.
minus-squareZorque@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·5 months agoThat implies it’d even be available to consumers.
minus-squareTrilogy3452@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoOr even be released in any form (I’m assuming here AI doesn’t use DDR memory but some oyher related type)
minus-squareEtherWhack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months agoNot sure if the AI side is any different, but all the data and compute servers I’ve built used DDR DIMMs, only they needed to be ECC to even POST.
minus-squareDultas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoIf it was server hardware they probably needed more than just ECC. They were probably RDIMM or LRDIMM which have built in registers to handle addressing larger amounts of memory.
DDR4 is cheaper than DDR5, sure, but retailers have jacked the price of both by the same percentage, so it’s not really all that much of a rescue.
I expect people will need a full mortgage to pay for DDR6 when it comes out next year.
That implies it’d even be available to consumers.
Or even be released in any form (I’m assuming here AI doesn’t use DDR memory but some oyher related type)
Not sure if the AI side is any different, but all the data and compute servers I’ve built used DDR DIMMs, only they needed to be ECC to even POST.
If it was server hardware they probably needed more than just ECC. They were probably RDIMM or LRDIMM which have built in registers to handle addressing larger amounts of memory.