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Valve Says The Companies Making RAM Give Them A Price And If They Say No, They ‘Never Talk To Us Again’ (kotaku.com)
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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What's to stop them from just going a generation back and using DDR4 instead of DDR5.

There is no one who can convince me that it makes any noticeable difference anyway. When I was putting together a new/used desktop I specifically looked for DDR4 for precisely that reason and I would take any bet that a performance hit would be measured in numbers too small for any user to even notice.

Constantly needing newer hardware with only fractional improvements is the biggest scam in tech. They took their lesson from Apple and Samsung.

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

DDR4 isn’t much cheaper, and wouldn’t stay cheaper at all if demand spiked.

[–] jmill@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

DDR4 prices have come up too. In fact, DDR3 and even DDR2 prices have spiked.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think DDR4 is significantly cheaper. Plus, they would have had to go a CPU generation back too then and I think the AMD CPUs of that generation had way worse integrated graphics, so now you'd need a dedicated GPU as well.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I haven't been following the Steam Machine, but are they using integrated graphics for it?

[–] qaeta@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Looks like a custom GPU configuration based on AMD hardware to me. So not an iGPU, but also not a mainline card.

[–] 3bygone3@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Nah, it's some kind of a mobile GPU.