SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 months agoAre people buying refurb pcs just to strip out the DDR 4 ram with the current price hikes on new ram?message-squaremessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1116arrow-down10
arrow-up1116arrow-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 · 2 months agomessage-square28fedilink
minus-squareberty@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 months 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-squareSolidShake@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 months agoDdr4 went up a little bit to ride the inflation wave, but not nearly as much as ddr5
minus-squareYggstyle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months 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.
minus-squarevividspecter@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoSodimm DDR4 seems to have gone up too. But yeah, not so much that it would be worth harvesting a working PC.
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.
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.
Sodimm DDR4 seems to have gone up too. But yeah, not so much that it would be worth harvesting a working PC.