Nobody would like to use DDR3 right now though, you can get cheap DDR3 DDR2 if you want some

It physically will not fit a modern motherboard.

You can get an old mobo with an old CPU

Which will only support up to around 16-32GB anyways and most likely won’t be supported by Windows 11. You’re not really better off that way and I’m saying this as someone with a DDR3 setup in my closet and a ton of DDR/DDR2/DDR3 RAM sticks laying around.

>Right now RAM is the same price per GB as it was in 2007 and prices per GB look to continue to rise.

...when looking at nominal prices (ie. not adjusted for inflation). If you adjust for that the furthest back you can go to get that price is 2011. What's more is that because RAM prices are subject to boom and bust cycles, that price has also been reached in 2015. So just by tweaking two parameters we went from 19 years (2007) to 11 years (2015).

That is correct, DDR5 today is in real US$ slightly cheaper than DRAM was in 2011, 15 years ago.

For more than 15 years in the past, the price in real US$ of DRAM per GB was always higher than today.

During 2014, there was a brief price peak when DDR3 (the standard current then) was slightly more expensive than DDR5 is today.

Still, the fact that now the price per GB is the same as 15 years ago, is bad enough, and it can still become worse.