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MSI's $80 AMD motherboards with DDR4 support swoop in to rescue gamers amid the global RAM crisis
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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.
noo, good cats are not for sale
This is universally true, so, it’s implied they are a bad cat unfortunately
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)
Fingers crossed that we might see HBM as system RAM finally.
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.