I wonder, are the effects better or worse for DDR4 vs DDR5, or does it simply not matter at all

@volpeon
I bought a 2×16GB kit from Crucial back in late April 2025 for 60€, now at 185€.

@volpeon I got very lucky with my living room build and got 16GB of 2400MHz for £20 off eBay

Now that's slow ram but the board doesnt want anything faster than 2666MHz anyway (es modt chip)

@volpeon This makes me want to take my old computers apart.

I know that this won't work, but a fox can still dream

@volpeon I wanted to see what I paid for 32 GB in 2022 but the invoice does not list components from the build-to-order. I don't really remember that the two DDR4 modules cost then. But I do remember it was fairly cheap so I took 2x 16. Crucial. Funny how it's all history now thanks to billionaire bros.

I would assume it's a similar effect. Mostly DDR5 is used in datacenters but DDR4 is probably far less supply by now as most production was moved to the new standard.

@volpeon also that machine is a lot more stable on windows (although it did crash earlier)

Its either arc or a combo of thr board + arc isn't playing nice in linux

@volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip

When I was looking at prices for replacement parts on my desktop, the processor (10 cores at 2 Ghz) is down to $200. The 128 GB of Kingston ECC DDR3 RAM are still $320. Those are 13 year old sticks of RAM still at $40 a pop.

Oh, and that triples to upgrade to 1866 MHz instead of 1333.

@volpeon My coworker checked, and the price of the RAM he bought 1 year ago went up by almost 3 times

@Gauss ​​

@volpeon when I bought like 256GB of ecc ddr4 like a year ago it was the least expensive part of my NAS. Now its worth more then the rest of the machine combined

@keeya @volpeon

out of curiosity i checked my G.Skill Trident Z 32GB Kit DDR4 3600, i had the black and white non rgb version which was 180€ back in March 2020 and now a similar kit in black/silver+rgb costs 263€

@volpeon Relevant meme

https://icy.uwu.bar/notes/ag7q6i9uec18gzba

@volpeon the DDR4 I have in my home server is up almost 6x since January

@volpeon Rookie numbers

The 64 GB of DDR5 I bought went from $359 Australian Dollars (AUD) TO $1,099 BY THE SAME FUCKING RETAILER!

This is beyond ridiculous.

@Umbreon Holy shit ​​

gonna go check the RAM I got in my PC. It's a bit complicated since it's built by a company and not by me so…

yeah so a newer model didn't have that jump, it's around £745. I can't even find the original price now lol.