This is cool. I just hope game developers also get on this bandwagon. We could use a 4-year moratorium on increasing minimum system requirements.
not gonna happen with GTA6 releasing soon
Is it?
I feel like I could have raised a family in the time between its supposed release date and now, and it’s still not out yet.
Rockstar are good at optimising their games. GTA V ran better than GTA IV on the same hardware. I wouldn’t be surprised if GTA VI runs well on the Steam Deck.
Rockstar good at optimizing games?
Is that a real statement?
It won’t at all run on the deck. They blocked 5 from Linux a while ago.
Well, it did take a while for GTA IV to run well on anything, really…
“Rescue”
Lol. What is the rescue if even DDR4 explodes? What does this help?DDR4 is already ridiculously expensive, just not quite as bad as DDR5
Ah, AM4.
At 10 years old, it’s still the platform that keeps on giving.
And I’ll be running it for at least another ten…
Still runs everything well, so why not?
The way things are going we’re going to need ddr3 mobos.
Been running an MSI motherboard, gpu, WD raptor, and haswell cpu since 2015-ish. My only regret is that I got the “K” version of the processor for overclocking, which lacks the VT-d extensions needed for virtualization goodies like gpu passthrough.
And they called me a madman for spending months tuning the CO of my 5800X3D to its limits and also OCing my 3200 mhz Crucial Memory to 3800 Mhz. It seems this setup will stay with me until DDR6 arrives. I hope the prices get back to normal by then.
I don’t think there will be a DDR6. I think the AI bubble is going to pop & all these data centers will become “mainframe centers” that your minimum spec’d home terminal connects to to do all the computing for you on “Our lightning fast multi-core super computer with terabytes of memory!”
😐😭🤮
I don’t know, if you want them to last I’d ease up on the overclock.
CO on Zen 3 X3D chips is always an undervolt, not an overclock.
Yeah but he was talking about a substantial overclock on the memory, which isn’t something I’d stress nowadays…
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
Wat good is a board of there’s no memory? AM4 has been happily humming along for years too, why is MSI special now?
DDR4 isn’t as much a part of the memory shortage, though that seems to be shifting because DDR5 is jacked up. They’re pulling a solid for consumers by releasing a cheap motherboard where memory can be gotten, or giving a transition for users with older components.
yep
https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/
ddr4 looks to have doubled in price but ddr5 is up 5x
I’m pondering whether to sell my 4x8Gb DDR4 sticks after recently upgrading to 2x32 or hold on to those if I want to build another system or my current sticks die all of a sudden.
I sold all my back-stock of RAM. It helps relieve pressure and all that RAM was destined to sit in a box for years otherwise.
The RAM I just bought last week was 4 times the identical purchase 14 months ago.
You sure it’s not part of the shortage? Who’s making new ddr4?
That’s why I said “as much”. Since DDR5 went crazy, people started buying DDR4, which is driving the price up, but still only at a 2x increase vs 5x for DDR5.
Hence, the release of this motherboard.
I wish it was only double. You saw where I said it was 4x? 4x is really close to 5x ; 80% of the way, you know.
