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What would you do if you had 32GB RAM? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by xpostml10@lemmings.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 3 points 11 months ago (11 children)

Ditch Google trash. Go for alternatives. E.g., Firefox instead of Chrome.

[–] SupremeDonut@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

May as well chop the "s" off "alternatives"

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Firefox isn't going to solve the issue of overly bloated websites.

[–] albert180@piefed.social 1 points 11 months ago

It still has ManifestV2 and useful ad-blocking

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[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 0 points 11 months ago

Hence the joke 🤣

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[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

took me a few days but I fully switched to firefox. my computer finally runs the way it should.

[–] rippermonty@feddit.uk 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My washing machine uses Firefox as well

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[–] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago

Run our of RAM, apparently.

A few containers, a bunch of IDE windows with large work spqces and a dozen or two browser tabs add up. At least I can follow my "workflow" of doing three things at more or less the same as time

[–] jasoman@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Upgrade to 64GB cause 32 is not enough for my adhd

[–] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Then upgrade from 64gb to 128gb because it’s still not enough for my adhd

[–] SynonymousStoat@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've actually been considering using 128gb recently. I'm only considering this as I'm thinking about turning a server of mine into my primary desktop and it has 128gb in it already because I was using a RAM disk to generate large files in memory. I'm now done with that project and it feels silly having this powerful PC sitting here doing nothing.

[–] offendicula@fedia.io 0 points 11 months ago

A single vote cannot convey my interest in this idea.

[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 0 points 11 months ago

Not even use 8GB of it.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 months ago

I went with 64GB on my most recent build... partially because it will eventually be retired to be a server, partially because last time i did a new build with brand new RAM, RAM prices skyrocketed (tsunami hit Taiwan IIRC, but still)

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 11 months ago (4 children)

32GB of RAM with zram configured aggressively and I still get close at times to running out of ram. 2 more years and I'll probably need to upgrade to 128GB

[–] Vopyr@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why do you need so much RAM, for browsing, gaming, or is it your operating system that uses so much?

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Browsing and gaming. Discord and Spotify are always open and I've noticed almost every update they use another 30-40MB. Not much but discord literally went from using 150ish MB to 400-500MB on first start up. After a couple hours of being open it'll use up to 2GB of RAM. Software is getting worse and worse with memory management and games are getting ridiculous too

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[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Always wonder. I bet he got to double lots of women just from that quote alone.

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[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

I'd read Lemmy posts about what I'd do if I had 32GM of RAM.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago (5 children)

My mid-range gaming PC from 2019 had 16gb, and I was looking at some new pre-builts and saw many still only have 16. Is there just not much need for more, or what? It's cheap - I might double what I've got in DDR4 for $50.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you're doing a new PC then I'd aim for 32GB.

16GB is enough, yes, but for how much longer? It's been the norm for awhile now, which means that soon it won't be enough.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago

sort of what I was thinking. I only hit the limit when I have way too many tabs open while playing an intensive game, but it's a cheap upgrade that might keep me in this PC for a few more years.

[–] SynonymousStoat@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

I have 32gb and I always suggest others to get that much as a baseline theses days. I rarely ever use anywhere close to the full 32gb, but I am often times at or near 16gb in use. The main benefit of having 32gb is in my case I'll basically never be hitting the pagefile, but if you only had 16gb you'll probably rarely max out on ram usage, but you'll probably be hitting the pagefile more often.

With the proliferation of fast SSDs and NVME drives hitting the pagefile is considerably less impactful than it use to be with spinning disks, but it's still slower than RAM.

[–] sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

For gaming it is unlikely you will need more than 16, at least not any time soon.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 0 points 11 months ago

Depends on the game and what you’re doing with it. Cities: Skylines with a bunch of mods really struggles without a load of RAM. Playing Vintage Story recently, I installed a bunch of mods. Had to uninstall about half to come in under 32GB utilization.

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[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 0 points 11 months ago (6 children)

16GB is perfectly enough currently and I expect it to stay so for the next 5+ years.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

With 16 GB ram I can perfectly virtualize W11 giving 8 GB ram to the guest (on a Linux host), so yes, for normal use 16 GB is perfectly fine.

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[–] HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I had a desktop with 16GB, never really went over 10, got a new laptop, runing win 11, 32 GB of ram thought it was way overkill, out of the box its running12-20GB, its crazy.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As you start getting closer to your memory limit windows starts unloading things. 11 on first startup will use like 4+ gigs, but only really needs about 2. I honestly have no idea what it's doing with all that extra ram.

Disk caching isn't counted in the ram used number task manager gives you so it's not like that's what it's being used for.

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[–] suicidaleggroll@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

I'd be in trouble, since between ZFS and my various VMs, my system idles at ~170 GB RAM used. With only 32 I'd have to shut basically everything down.

My previous system had 64 GB, and while it wasn't great, I got by. Then one of the motherboard slots died and dropped me to 48 GB, which seriously hurt. That's when I decided to rebuild and went to 256.

[–] ace_of_based@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago

NERD!

seriously, nice rig phat stats

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Real question. Doesn't the computer actually slow down when you have that much memory? Doesn't the CPU need to seek into a bigger vast vs a smaller memory set?

Or is this an old school way of thinking?

[–] IHawkMike@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

No that's not how it works. Handling a larger address space (e.g., 32-bit vs 64-bit) maybe could affect speed between same sized modules on a very old CPU but I'm not sure that's even the case by any noticeable margin.

The RA in RAM stands for random access; there is no seeking necessary.

Technically at a very low level size probably affects speed, but not to any degree you'd notice. RAM speed is actually positively correlated with size, but that's more because newer memory modules are both generally both bigger and faster.

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[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Buy 32 more and lollygag on actually installing it, if my recent actions have proven anything.

[–] xpostml10@lemmings.world 0 points 11 months ago

can't be turnin off the computer all willynillly now so that checks out 👍

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

I see I'm not the only person who decided to rewatch it after that thread

[–] Vopyr@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Well, I don't think I need that much RAM, but it's a funny joke, modern browsers consume an insane amount of RAM.

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[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 0 points 11 months ago (16 children)

Linux and FreeBSD systems? Happy and snappy.

Work Windows system filled with crap corp security software? Open electron apps and wait for them to load.

Personal Windows system? Master of Orion, the remake.

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