Crankenstein comments on AMD may be planning another Radeon GPU price hike in November

[–] Crankenstein@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This is my current issue

I have a 2080Super, which should be good for another couple years, but my CPU is an old i5-9600k and only 16 gigs of DDR4.

I can still run games but the last few years I've struggled to get a steady 60 frames.

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[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

CPUs have still a good price on the market, I don't know about Motherboards. So you could eventually buy a new board that supports modern CPUs, but still support DDR4. Then just reuse the RAM. Everything else could be reused. That's the only way forward I guess, if you don't want spent too much money, but still want a modern CPU.

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[–] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

DDR4 boards have increased in price more than DDR5 boards (generally speaking) because of how expensive DDR5 is. Basically, consumers are buying DDR4 and not DDR5, causing a lot of the new old stock of DDR4 boards to rise in price.

It's still less than DDR5 memory, obviously.

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[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago (1 child)

The point is not to buy more RAM, but reuse the existing one and buy a new CPU.

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[–] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 week ago*

I'm aware, that's why I said it was still cheaper than DDR5. I was responding to this:

CPUs have still a good price on the market, I don't know about Motherboards. So you could eventually buy a new board that supports modern CPUs, but still support DDR4.

Emphasis mine, obviously.

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