DDR2 is DEAD.

DDR2 has been unsupported for years now... but with the comparatively high prices, I had to wonder... am I missing out? Or are they just overpriced?

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My Gear

[giovaanflores]

I have some DDR2 at 1200 Mhz, pretty sure that is the fastest .

[keulloe]

The 840T has two disabled cores. With some luck, you can unlock it to a penta or hexa core.

[Armadurapersonal]

i use a core2duo thinkpad x200 pretty regularly, it's amazing how capable these old machines are with maxed ram and an ssd

[bdo_]

Being outside doesn’t stop me from watching even if it makes me look…special

[SuperWeirdPCs]

LGA 775 and AM2 sockets are still perfectly good for browsing web and creating your presentation or a document. It can even game for the most games till 2016-2017. I'm to this day still love em and use em. And the DDR3 systems sometimes costs more than the DDR4 system in my region. And the DDR2 systems cost hilariously low. I can do the 10-15$ fully working 775 PC with the GPU. And it seems perfectly good and valuable for such a price.

[SeralyneYT]

That pagefile must be doing god's work - honestly instead of buying DDR2 RAM at this point, it's almost worth considering some way of perhaps using PCIe Gen 4 SSDs at this point. We're talking same peak transfer rates lmao

[LughtMon]

4 years ago I was using some kind of Intel Core 2 Duo with 4GB of DDR2 RAM, 500GB HDD and nvidia Quadro 600 GPU. It wasn't good, but it taught me to be patient. I was recording videos, editing videos, I learned photoshop on it, music production, even some gaming. I managed to change options, so the system will run at it's best. But sure, it was crap and I don't want to go back anymore.

[mrmerlin]

I'm in my mid 30s. I feel a lot of sentimental feelings towards this era of hardware as I probably did most of my gaming during this time period.

[hushus]

Unfortunately in countrys like Denmark people think everything from a computer is GOLD or DIAMONDS... The prizes are WAY to high for old items

My "old" system still runs AMD Phenom II 965 BE

[FlyboyHelosim]

Realistically, you're not going to be running Windows 10 and modern games on a DDR2 era system. You'd buy it absolutely to replace parts in, or even build from scratch, a retro system.

[big-ts-tech-corner]

I believe another part of the reason why this DDR2 era stuff is getting expensive is because its starting to see itself lumped in with the "muh vintage gaming!!! retro hardware!!!" era of things. A lot of people are wanting to make dream systems from that era (I mean hey, myself included!) so we can run our games that, at that time, we had to patiently endure at 800x600 30FPS, but now we can run them at max settings and high resolutions to fill in some stupid void that we have :)

[DarkDragonEWA]

I don't think it's even a supply issue, DDR2 era stuff just seems stupidly expensive for no reason. I've bought older DDR era parts and even old 486 stuff for less. It's like a few people listed the stuff at inflated prices and everybody just does the same trying to match what they see the other stuff listed at.

[brendonlaucheekeong]

I went to service centre and showed them my Kingston DDR 2 1066mhz 2x2gb hyper X with lifetime warranty and they refunded me 33.5 SGD dollars.

[LinuxKnuckleHead]

I remember paying almost $350 for a 1.2 Gig hard drive... and $250 for a 16 Meg ATI All in Wonder card... Those were the days. Ram was like 4 Meg was huge. Those were the days. As long as it played Doom and/or Quake you were golden.

[JokaGamingK]

I found a ODD DDR2 PC on TRASH, the pc had a xeon e 3450, 6GB DDR2 667MHz and the most odd part was the fact the PC camr with a 480 GB SSD with 100% Health and a GT 1030 and the last two parts work.

[cosmefulanito]

My home server use DDR2...
Athlon II X2 250 with 4GB ram.
Fileserver, Home Assistant, 5 Octoprint instances, DLNA, DNS filtering...
Works really nice.

[pamus]

Had a 1090T + 1600Mhz DDR3 with 650ti boost. Ran 4k video and games flawless. Over a decade ago!
The 1090T had a better architecture than Bulldozer but on a 45nm versus the bulldozers 32.

[maladamedialabs]

I'm not a big gamer so an appropriate DDR2 system works fine for every day use. An Optiplex 745 with 8 gigs of fast DDR2, fully updated BIOS and a Q6600 is just fine for puttering around on the Internet. Of course, I run Linux (either Xubuntu or Mint) so I'm working with an OS with less bloat in it.

[OlaftheGreat]

I refurbish old computers as a personal hobby. I recently pulled an old Dell Inspiron from 2008-2009 out of my mom's garage. I had no idea what to expect. I was not expecting 2 1GB sticks of DDR2.
I was expecting less than that lol. Also it had a Radeon HD 4350, also equally not great

[paulpickett]

Lol. I just learned about your channel today while researching DDR3 RAM options and watching your most recent video on it, and low-and-behold behold your next video inspired by it (DDR2) was posted just earlier today. X)