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18-30 GB is completely valid... If you have 4 sockets in your computer, nothing is stopping you from adding 2x4 GB sticks and 2x8 GB sticks for a total of 24 GB. And you can even still run at full dual channel speeds...

It's not that common, as most people don't mix the sizes of the sticks... But as long as each dual channel pair is of the same size, and the slowest stick timing is good enough, there's no trouble.

To be fair, the 9000 series has the same architecture as Intel's 6000 series Skylake CPUs, from 2015.

There is no 9500K, but I assume they’re referencing this one: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/134895/intel-core-i59500-processor-9m-cache-up-to-4-40-ghz/specifications.html

Which is 6C/6T.

That I believe… it’s always been a little piggy, but you can do some creative shit with it especially if you’re bad a SQL, which I am 😝

I think that he means that he's added the maximum amount of memory that his hardware supports, rather than that he's been keeping his GPU computation capacity filled.

Yeah… I’ll keep that in mind 🤣

You'll have to ask copilot, because nobody actually knows

No idea, but that is their guide for setting recommended system requirements. You lose 8-10GB with windows web browser in back ground and windows depending on how you think your user will use their computer.

I'm gonna pirate it to test the waters, honestly. If they've done good, I'll buy it. If its a dumpster fire of poor optimization I'll cry myself to sleep and watch the patch notes and pirate the updates, too.

I appreciate the idea, but fuck Nvidia with a rusty fork and no lube.

Mmm....note that the consoles there use unified memory. It's not quite the same thing, but it'd be closer to compare unified memory on a console to main memory plus video memory on a PC than to just main memory alone.

Steam hardware survey has like 50% shit-tier laptops though. Just 36.85% English users.

I think most gamers, especially the ones who built their own rig in the past 5 years or did any research before buying their prebuilt are gonna have 32gb minimum.

It's the people in poorer regions that really get fucked by these kind of requirements, but the publishers often don't consider them a significant revenue source for a AAA title.

That's the "recommended" amount, though. Most probably 16 would be totally fine.

Looks like 32GiB is an adequate RECOMMENDED "requirement".

Lenny Kravitz sucks, but goddamn is his daughter talented