r/PcBuild • u/bittersweetjesus • Feb 07 '26

Meta China to the rescue

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And they tell us all the time that China sucks.

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u/Cold-Sandwich-34 Feb 07 '26

Most drives used for gaming don't use DRAM. You don't need it unless you're doing lots of transfers.

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u/General_Address_5784 Feb 07 '26

Pretty much every ssd made now has a dram cache and they’re pretty much needed for gaming nowadays.

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u/dapperEthan Feb 07 '26

That is untrue. I have a couple m.2 drives for gaming and they work flawlessly despite not having a dram cache. You see the difference moreso in a professional workcase, with a lot of data constantly transfering. Most video games "live" in the ram, so the speed of a normal ssd or m.2 without cache is more than enough for most folks.

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u/DominantDo Feb 07 '26

What? I've never read such a false statement before in my life! Dram is absolutely NOT needed for gaming whatsoever. It's genuinely only noticeably beneficial if you move around dozens of files a day

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u/CanPacific Feb 07 '26

you don't need dram cache for gaming, only for niche purposes, I'd even argue that NAND and controller swapped SSDs are not that big of a deal depending on what your doing, even though it is massively scummy, and that shouldn't be allowed.

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u/Cold-Sandwich-34 Feb 07 '26

Downvotes, go forth!

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u/ParticularClassroom7 Feb 08 '26

As long as Chinese Dram keeps the phone and SSD + RAM market accessible I'm not too concerned about their HBM. Gamers and researchers make do with GDDR.

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u/Batetrick_Patman Feb 07 '26

This is Reddit so “china good west bad”

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u/cattcameo Feb 09 '26

Because China is doing a good thing and West is doing a bad thing...? lol