I never left DDR3. Still never upgraded from an FX-8350.
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2026
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When i looked for ddre mobos they were expensive af. Is it possible to use ddr3 in a ddr4 or 5 mobo? Is there an adapter or something?
Are you looking at new? Look at used, off eBay or whatever is in your country.
But everything is more expensive right now anyway.
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I mean DDR3 is provably fine. I ran a 16GB DDR3 machine with a goddamn 2500k up until several years ago and pre-2020 games usually ran fine, on playable framerates ( i did have win7, not sure how win10 fares ). Question is: who is this article for? Most tech enhusiasts have probably moved on by now, and even those are a small subset of PC users. "Normies"? Those moved on to phones and tables - it's why MS Windows has lost 400million machines in 3 years. So who are all these people so left behind that DDR3 is an upgrade but are still currently itching to buy ram? I don't get it.