I mean DDR3 is provably fine. I ran a 16GB DDR3 machine with a goddamn 2500k up until several years ago and pre-2020 games usually ran fine, on playable framerates ( i did have win7, not sure how win10 fares ). Question is: who is this article for? Most tech enhusiasts have probably moved on by now, and even those are a small subset of PC users. “Normies”? Those moved on to phones and tables - it’s why MS Windows has lost 400million machines in 3 years. So who are all these people so left behind that DDR3 is an upgrade but are still currently itching to buy ram? I don’t get it.

The actual number of applications was not disclosed.

So then the article doesn’t really say much, does it. It could well be 20->31 applicants.

True, but it looks like it may have been a railway issue on that (recently renovated) sector.

AGAIN? Holy crap, if this wasn’t sabotage then heads need to roll in that ministry