themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoDDR4 costs soar as manufacturers pull the plug — panic buying and stockpiling impact DDR4 spot pricing as supply dwindleswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square87fedilinkarrow-up1326arrow-down15cross-posted to: hardware@lemmy.world
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minus-squareFrezik@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·19 hours agoAMD is still putting out some AM4 CPUs just because it’s cheap for them to do so. They can run its chiplets off an old node, so no big deal. It’s still a halfway decent budget option, though that may change with DDR4 going out of manufacturing.
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 hours agoYup, still happily running a DDR4 build and am considering upgrading to one of the 3D chips at some point.
AMD is still putting out some AM4 CPUs just because it’s cheap for them to do so. They can run its chiplets off an old node, so no big deal. It’s still a halfway decent budget option, though that may change with DDR4 going out of manufacturing.
Yup, still happily running a DDR4 build and am considering upgrading to one of the 3D chips at some point.