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MSI's $80 AMD motherboards with DDR4 support swoop in to rescue gamers amid the global RAM crisis (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 126 points 8 months ago (10 children)

Ah, AM4.

At 10 years old, it's still the platform that keeps on giving.

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    And I'll be running it for at least another ten...

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Still runs everything well, so why not?

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Economic growth. The government needs us consuming more so that they can create jobs, that's the entire goal of inflation targeting.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Ha, that's the funny part. They could have kept pumping out AM4 and taken market share slowly over time while making normal money, making normal jobs, but noooooo line must go up every quarter. So we instead got new products that are twice as much money (when ddr5 came out) that are less stable and not much better, and then to make line go up more fuck selling to people lets all do AI bullshit instead. And now we are in a world where now there is no current viable product, less jobs, and less money people are willing to spend on things that cost 5X what they should.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Youre complaining that they attempt to advance technology to acquire marketshare?

    I'd agree that its an AI bubble, I can understand that at least. But those peoples money will be set on fire far more than you with a higher DDR price, as it was with the dotcom bubble; then you'll get cheaper DDR.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Youre complaining that they attempt to advance technology to acquire marketshare?

    Yes, it is a colossal industry wide issue of "needing" a new product in a rapidly decreasing window regardless of the utility of the product.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I'm running an AM4 Ryzen 9, with 64Gb of DDR4, and the thing cooks. AM4 is just great.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    I've been happily sitting on my R5 2600x for so many years now lol. My MB is an MSI B450 Pro Carbon and it can easily handle a 5950x or 5800x3D or whatever.

    Add another 2x8 gb ddr4 for 32GB total and I'll be seeing some insane performance relative to what I'm already happy with, which will last me another 5 years easily unless the mobo dies.

    It's really insane how well designed AM4 is.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    3 of my 4 desktops are running AM4. My main rig has a 5950x, the home theater PC has a 5500 and my wife's gaming rig has a 5600. I rebuilt the HTPC several months ago and specifically went with AM4 for price to performance (and because it's a Linux box)

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