Anyone running Sodimms in desktop?

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I've tried it with a couple of kits now with reasonable success. It's not pretty but doesn't stand out as much as I expected and the 4800 kits I have seem to be happy running a decent bit faster with a voltage bump up to 1.25v.

My Asus board has been happy with the 3 kits I've tried but my Gigabyte doesn't seem to like the Samsung kit and won't run faster than 3200. I didn't even know DDR5 could run that slow!

It's definitely worth considering IMHO. I had a 32gb kit from my laptop I upgraded last year already and the adapters cost me around £20

The second kit I bought used for £95 so total cost around £115 for 32GB DDR5 running at 5600 cl36 is pretty decent value at the moment.
 
I know a certain HK mini pc maker does a mini itx board with a AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D,16C/32T chip that takes Laptop Ram, and its cheaper than buying a equivalent CPU 7800x3d on it own
 
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I saw one of those for sale in your fair city I thought it would be great for an itx build but the seller never got back to me.. it wasn't the x3d version but still a nice CPU
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I know a certain HK mini pc maker does a mini itx board with a AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D,16C/32T chip that takes Laptop Ram, and its cheaper than buying a equivalent CPU 7800x3d on it own
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looks like a few are taking a punt at this.
It looks like it works ok but has got some limitations.

I can't see laptop ram staying cheap, the chips on the sodimm are the same as would be on desktop.
 
DDR5 SODIMMs have already crept up in price tbh, just at a slower pace initially. I think DDR4 SODIMMs (particularly the used market) will stay relatively cheap.
 
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I can't comment on the 2nd hand market, but I upgraded two older DDR4 laptops in September.

I paid £12 for 8GB (now £45) and £29 for 16GB (now £119) both bog standard 3200 Lexar sticks.

DDR5 4800 16GB is now £158 on the same site, so DDR4 is relatively cheaper, but still a insane rise.
 
I suspect the manufacturers of those adapters will increase the prices soon if they start selling a ton of them, If they haven't already!

With that said, Humans seriously are their own enemy...prices will never return back to what they should be because people are still buying DDR5 at the extortionate prices they are, Now they're buying either DDR4 or those adapters which has also made DDR4 prices shoot up.

We don't help ourselves..

I'm so glad that i purchased my system back before prices went absolutely crazy.

What's the betting come 2026 there will be an artificially created CPU shortage. :cry:
 
Need to give this a try, have 32gb ddr4 sodimms in an old NUC and a budget pc to build for the kids….this’s shave a chunk off for sure.
Anyone used a particular make of adapter or are they all generic no name take a gamble on an auction site quality?
 
Yes I've been using DDR4 & DDR5 SODIMMS since late last year. Back then I was buying 8GB DDR5 SODIMMs for £15 but the market has since caught up sadly.

I built a 7500F + 7800XT system recently and used 4 x 8GB DDR5 5600 + 4 adapters. AMD tends to run 4 sticks less well so the speed was limited to 4800. I couldn't tell any difference to be honest but the games being run weren't that demanding.

I also tested some DDR5 SODIMMs in my main system with a 7800X3D & 4080. 2 sticks at 5600 was perfectly stable.

So far I haven't had an issue with several DDR4/5 in various gaming builds and desktops.

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Just swapped the DDR4 RAM in a system I just built and again no issue running some DDR4 SODIMMS though I only had 2 x 4GB on hand to test.

Couldn't watch the other YT vid too cringey.

 
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I quite like Dawid been watching him for years he doesn't take stuff too seriously. I don't think it's worth it for DDR4 yet though as second hand prices aren't crazy. Obviously if you had a load of SODIMMS kicking about it might be worth it.
 
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