SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 12 hours agoAre people buying refurb pcs just to strip out the DDR 4 ram with the current price hikes on new ram?message-squaremessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up167arrow-down10
arrow-up167arrow-down1message-squareAre people buying refurb pcs just to strip out the DDR 4 ram with the current price hikes on new ram?SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 12 hours agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squareberty@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up7·8 hours agoI don’t think so. ddr5 is in demand, prices for older ddr4 seems unaffected. No way someone buys a refurb PC to sell the ddr4 kit and have a useless PC.
minus-squarevividspecter@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 hours agoSodimm DDR4 seems to have gone up too. But yeah, not so much that it would be worth harvesting a working PC.
minus-squareSolidShake@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 hours agoDdr4 went up a little bit to ride the inflation wave, but not nearly as much as ddr5
minus-squareYggstyle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 hours agoSupply and demand… We have tons of ddr4 on the secondary market - if they try to spike retail too much it won’t sell at all.
I don’t think so. ddr5 is in demand, prices for older ddr4 seems unaffected. No way someone buys a refurb PC to sell the ddr4 kit and have a useless PC.
Sodimm DDR4 seems to have gone up too. But yeah, not so much that it would be worth harvesting a working PC.
Ddr4 went up a little bit to ride the inflation wave, but not nearly as much as ddr5
Supply and demand… We have tons of ddr4 on the secondary market - if they try to spike retail too much it won’t sell at all.