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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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[–] 11 points 1 year ago (14 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago (8 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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Explain why.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    On any modern os unused ram is not simply unused. It is used for caching files and other stuff. So more ram can provide significant performance improvements for some taks even if "unused".

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year 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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