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On Sat, 6/21/2025 9:12 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 17:08:14 -0400, Paul wrote:
> 
>> Select a motherboard that supports DDR4, and buy your DDR4 RAM today,
>> before the supply runs out. Anyone holding off on buying their DDR4
>> upgrade, should do so right now, this minute. The last company making
>> DDR4, has announced EOL. Only a Chinese fab would have DDR4 after this.
>> DDR5 isn't quite as cheap.
> 
> I've seen this with past generations of RAM and even smaller HDs. The old 
> stuff is either unobtanium or insanely priced unless you can find it on 
> eBay. 
> 

It's more efficient now.

The pattern is, North American stock seems to be cleaned out
in no time. Leaving a number of dodgy item listings
from China -- which might be OK, or might not.

I've had enough bad/nobrand RAM over the years (items I
can't blame on China), to not go "looking for a bargain" any more.
Bad RAM would last for about 1.5 years on average. Any time I
thought I'd got a bargain, I also got proved wrong.
This is why I can't look at items that don't have
a "history of success".

The last RAM with some questionable behavior, was some
Kingston DDR2, that ran hotter than it should. All the
DDR3 and DDR4 I've bought, has been just fine. No complaints.
There is no DDR5 in the house yet.

   Paul