joepie91 needs more railing 🚅💦 (🔜 eth0) on Nostr: The problem is that there's a new version of the DDR "standard" every couple of years ...

The problem is that there's a new version of the DDR "standard" every couple of years and there's zero compatibility between those versions, so in practice RAM is pretty much tied to a particular generation of hardware (and thus a particular generation of performance).

Some reuse is possible by taking RAM from low-specced machines and combining it with high-specced hardware from the same era, but all things considered this is a pretty limited set of circumstances (also because you'll usually be dealing with an entirely obsolete generation), and one that just isn't really relevant to most people trying to buy RAM today, especially with Windows 11 setting high demands on hardware to even be installable 😐