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Valve Says The Companies Making RAM Give Them A Price And If They Say No, They ‘Never Talk To Us Again’ (kotaku.com)
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[–] festus@lemmy.ca 7 points 12 hours ago

I don't think DDR4 is significantly cheaper. Plus, they would have had to go a CPU generation back too then and I think the AMD CPUs of that generation had way worse integrated graphics, so now you'd need a dedicated GPU as well.