DDR3 Rides Again, ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs
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We talk with Wendell about cool, older hardware that's still useful -- especially for self-hosting and bringing services into your own hands. The unfortunate reason DDR3 has once again found modern usefulness is due to the memory pricing crisis, perpetrated by AI companies -- namely, NVIDIA -- and the memory companies who supply them. We talk some cool, new-old hardware, including new motherboards with DDR3 and DDR4 support.
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00:00 - The X79 and X99 Platform is Alive
03:25 - The Collection
07:10 - Cool But Also Sad
11:10 - Dual Radeon 5700 V540
14:20 - Second-Hand Future Parts
20:19 - Conclusion
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Wendell: Guest
Vitalii Makhnovets: Editing, Camera
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What's the latest Winamp skin?
Earlier this year (Feb 2026) I picked up 1TB of DDR3 1866 (16x64) and 512GB of DDR3 2133 (16x32) LRDIMMs for ~$300 from a local recycler.
At the time, the 64GB sticks were selling for ~$25 each on Ebay.
A stick of 64GB @ 1600 is now(October) selling for over $100 on Ebay.
The 1TB of 64GB sticks went right into a NAS I built for a client, who used the savings to put 100TB more drives into it (and an additional 20TB cold spare).
They wanted to build a second one in September for another site, but I told them that the cost of everything had doubled since then.
This stupid bubble is ruining people's lives and businesses.
I cannot afford new tech, only to pay slave rent. "I owe my soul to the company store" rings loudly in my ears right now.
DDR3 Rides Again, ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs
Gamers Nexus
74,669 views
Sponsor: ID-Cooling Frozn A620 SLK on Amazon https://geni.us/Vc8Zi
We talk with Wendell about cool, older hardware that's still useful -- especially for self-hosting and bringing services into your own hands. The unfortunate reason DDR3 has once again found modern usefulness is due to the memory pricing crisis, perpetrated by AI companies -- namely, NVIDIA -- and the memory companies who supply them. We talk some cool, new-old hardware, including new motherboards with DDR3 and DDR4 support.
The best way to support our work is through our store: https://store.gamersnexus.net/
Like our content? Please consider becoming our Patron to support us: Patreon: gamersnexus
Find Level1 Techs here: level1techs
Watch our "Fix Broken Things" video with Louis Rossmann: Fix Broken Things. Louis Rossmann Repair S...
Watch our video of Brother Zhang's repair shop: Creating a 48GB NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU | Brot...
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - The X79 and X99 Platform is Alive
03:25 - The Collection
07:10 - Cool But Also Sad
11:10 - Dual Radeon 5700 V540
14:20 - Second-Hand Future Parts
20:19 - Conclusion
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Links to Amazon and Newegg are typically monetized on our channel (affiliate links) and may return a commission of sales to us from the retailer. This is unrelated to the product manufacturer. Any advertisements or sponsorships are disclosed within the video ("this video is brought to you by") and above the fold in the description. We do not ever produce paid content or "sponsored content" (meaning that the content is our idea and is not funded externally aside from whatever ad placement is in the beginning) and we do not ever charge manufacturers for coverage.
Follow us in these locations for more gaming and hardware updates:
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Steve Burke: Host
Wendell: Guest
Vitalii Makhnovets: Editing, Camera
Watch our "Fix Broken Things" video with Louis Rossmann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4wwvKcsblE
Watch our video of Brother Zhang's repair shop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcRGBeOENLg