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DDR4 costs soar as manufacturers pull the plug — panic buying and stockpiling impact DDR4 spot pricing as supply dwindles (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 10 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I have 64 and I have rarely ever used as much as 16.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    I regularly use over 16-24GB of my 32 GB, and considering I just had to replace 4 8s with 2 16s, I'm honestly kinda tempted to get another pair just to have knowing the shit that's coming down the pipe.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    That’s reassuring, gotta make sure I take care of mine. The pc market has been too messy the last few years.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Yeah, by the time it becomes an issue you'll be ready to upgrade anyway. There are few use cases for as much RAM as I have. I only bought it to fuck around with VM's. I'm probably skipping ddr5 and am5 so you're in good company.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I also have 64, but I've seen up to 34 in use a couple times. I could have stayed with 48gb, but the timings/cas latency was much better on the 64gb kit, than running mismatched sizes across 4 slots

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  • [–] -5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    How is it 2025 and people still don't understand how RAM works?

    If you've got 64GB of RAM, ideally you want to be using nearly all of that 64GB at all times.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Explain why.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    Unused RAM is wasted RAM. If you've got 64GB of RAM but your system never uses more than 8GB of RAM, you don't need 64GB of RAM and you're not getting any benefit from it.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    How does it follow then that one should use nearly all of it at all times? Sometimes I need all the memory, sometimes I don't. Sure, I don't get the benefit all the time. Same as I don't have four passengers in my car at all times.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    I think the point is, if you're not carrying 4 passengers all the time, why the fuck did you buy a car when you could have bought a unicycle instead?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago*

    It's not like I'm manually clearing things out of the ram. And before the power outage last weekend I had an up-time over 2 months.

    Is there a way to have the OS utilize more?

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