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Why do we all need 128GB now? I was happy with 32. Close a few Chrome tabs, and save some DDR5 for the rest of us. :-)
by Tempest1981 11mo ago
Why do we all need 128GB now? I was happy with 32.
Close a few Chrome tabs, and save some DDR5 for the rest of us. :-)
- cactusplant7374 11mo agoI like to tell people I have 128GB. It's pretty rare to meet someone like me that isn't swapping all the time.
- nehal3m 11mo agoI also tell people that. It’s not true, but it’s free.
- laterium 11mo agoWhy did you waste all your money on 32gb when 4gb is enough? Why did we all need 32gb?
- rhdunn 11mo agoIt depends on what you are doing. If you are working on an application that has several services (database, local stack, etc.) as docker containers, those can take up more memory. Especially if you have large databases or many JVM services, and are running other things like an IDE with debugging, profiling, and other things. Likewise, if you are using many local AI models at the same time, or some larger models, then that can eat into the memory. I've not done any 3D work or video editing, but those are likely to use a lot of memory.
- humanfromearth9 11mo agoLast night, while writing a LaTeX article, with Ollama running for other purposes, Firefox with its hundreds of tabs, multiple PDF files open, my laptop's memory usage spiked up to 80GB RAM usage... And I was happy to have 128GB. The spike was probably due to some process stuck in an effing loop, but the process consuming more and more RAM didn't have any impact on the system's responsiveness, and I could calmly quit VSCode and restart it with all the serenity I could have in the middle of the night. Is there even a case where more RAM is not really better, except for its cost?
- Jyaif 11mo ago> Is there even a case where more RAM is not really better, except for its cost? RAM uses power.
- epolanski 11mo agoIt also consumes more physical space. /s
- 1718627440 11mo agoNot really /s, since it is a limited resource in e.g. Laptops.
- zrail 11mo agoOn consumer chips the more memory modules you have the slower they all run. I.e. if you have a single module of DDR5 it might run at 5600MHz but if you have four of them they all get throttled to 3800MHz.
- imtringued 11mo agoMainboards have two memory channels so you should be able to reach 5600mhz on both and dual slot mainboards have better routing than quad slot mainboards. This means the practical limit for consumer RAM is 2x48GB modules.
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- Roark66 11mo agoHaving recently updated to 192gb from 96gb I'm pretty happy. I run many containers, have 20 windows of vscode and so on. Plus ai inference on CPU when 48gb vram is not enough.
- 15155 11mo ago640K ought to be enough for anyone.
- 1718627440 11mo agoExactly. I recently doubled my RAM and have now 4GB.