pastermil comments on What's best these days? 16Gb slow memory, or 8Gb fast

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[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I have never heard of anyone complaining about 'slow RAM'. On the other hand, I've heard of countless dreads on lack of RAM.

Seriously tho, can anybody actually perceive that speed difference?

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[–] BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago

No, RAM speed has almost no real-world non-benchmark impacts outside of extreme overclocking. In basically every case where you would start to see the difference, just adding more RAM will make a bigger one.

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[+] AcidBurn@retrofed.com [S] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago*

If you run any unoptimized apps... ahem... steam, or any electron app, memory leaks eventually crash the system. For me anyway, with 8 GB.

I had to make a custom solution which quits steam every time the computer goes to standby.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/196/

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[–] BlueOysterCultist@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

I hat are you doing? I put an ollllllld dell micro on Linux mint, pretty sure that’d be 8gb at ddr3 (maybe ddr4, not sure) and it handles web and video well enough

No graphics card so it has a little screen tearing on fast changing scenes but interestingly it couldn’t even handle videos until I swapped to Linux. On windows it’d play the audio but the video would freeze.