alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 17 hours agoRAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square34linkfedilinkarrow-up1244arrow-down10
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minus-squareLudicrous0251@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·11 hours agoBack in my day when RAM was cheap, 8GB is worthless, 16GB is minimum spec to do anything remotely productive, 32GB covers 98% of scenarios, and 64GB is ehh why not at least this way I never have to worry about it.
minus-squareBCsven@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-26 hours agoTaps my SAMBA and MiniDlna server on the top, this baby doin’ fine at 256MB. Seriously, it doesn’t even use the full amount of RAM.
minus-squareGladaed@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·6 hours agoWhy are you doing anything productive on your home PC? You certainly got a right to, but in my experience 16 gb are enough while 32 are plenty. If I am at work I want more.
minus-squareLudicrous0251@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 hours agoProductive hobbies, multitasking while gaming, … Optimizing my media collection… Astrophotography.
Back in my day when RAM was cheap, 8GB is worthless, 16GB is minimum spec to do anything remotely productive, 32GB covers 98% of scenarios, and 64GB is ehh why not at least this way I never have to worry about it.
Taps my SAMBA and MiniDlna server on the top, this baby doin’ fine at 256MB. Seriously, it doesn’t even use the full amount of RAM.
Why are you doing anything productive on your home PC?
You certainly got a right to, but in my experience 16 gb are enough while 32 are plenty. If I am at work I want more.
Productive hobbies, multitasking while gaming, … Optimizing my media collection… Astrophotography.