8GB of RAM /g/ said. That's all you'll need they said.
>Firefox 12 tabs open
>Photoshop 6 projects open
>2 virtual machines running, 1 linux & 1 Win8
>DayZ SA instance
>Starbound instance
>Handbrake encoding
>Torrent client instance
>about a half dozen other programs running
Bought Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB RAM for $80 in Feb '13.
Same RAM today $140.
>>46769951
do you want some kind of trophy know because you can actually think for yourself and decide how much ram you need or what ?
go get a life.
>>46769951
Wow op I downloaded like 32gb yesterday because I needed more.
>>46769951
Joke's on you, I bought 16GB of for only $80.
handbrake is garbage
>>46769951
I'm going to upgrade mine somewhen. I have 16 GB in my laptop but only 8 in my desktop.
>>46769987
u jelly with your 4gb of ram, knowing you'll have to pay double for RAM compared to a year ago?
>>46769951
>I'm playing two games at once because I have RAM
What's the point?
>>46769951
Why are you running so many things at once?
You aren't possibly using these tasks. Your use of your ram isn't legitimate, it's just a substitute for your laziness or lack of any ability to intelligently perform and coordinate tasks.
>Hey guys, I'm doing all this stupid shit at once for some reason. Pretty cool I got all that memory, huh? 8gb BTFO.
Just fuck off. If you were doing actually DOING SOMETHING, like complex fluid dynamics simulations, rendering, encoding 4K video in HEVC, 3d modeling, or whatever, then yes, your ram would be worth it..
Right now you're just a child that can't understand how to close applications you aren't using and actually focus.
>>46770012
what makes you think i'm only having 4 gb ?
>all this plebian tier shit
>>46770057
Someone actually made an intelligent comment on this board. Is the world ending now?
>>46770000
Same. I got my laptop ram used for a steal and the machine only had 4 before so I grabbed it. But my desktop rarely uses over 4Gb so I haven't wanted to blow the cash on it. I just spent a few hundred on a new amp and headphones so I'm not exactly looking for problems to fix when everything is running fine at the moment.
>>46769995
Bought mine for 50 Euro's,2 years ago.
Corsair Vengeance 16 GB 1600mhz
>>46770071
We're talking desktops, not servers there pal.
But you're still beat. And by one of my DDR2 boxes, no less...
PE R900
4x Xeon 7450
128GB FBDIMM
And that's the retired shit...
As for the desktops, I'm considering picking up 96GB for my HP Z800, but thinking it might be time to upgrade to the Z820.
it feels good to be masterrace
>>46770097
Same here, $53 though and it was the 4x4GB 1.35v version (LP White).
>>46770125
It's all running off of a desktop, a Lenovo D20
>>46770088
Well, Spock died, so maybe.
>>46770057
Not OP, but I do Hyper-V automation testing, and have 48GB in my desktop now. Do I always use it? No. Most tasks will be fine with 8GB. But when I'm working on an automation sequence, the VM's alone can take up ~32GB of RAM, + VisualStudio + browser tabs for trying to solve the item I broke / what command is that / syntax reference / shitposting on the 4chans.
>12 gb masterb8
Come at me bro.
>>46770164
Which is running a bare metal install of ESXi...
>tfw the golden era of cheap RAM is over
;_; I should downloaded so many rams back then
>>46769951
>Firefox 12 tabs open
>4GB of RAM used
Yet Firefox is master race
>>46769951
16? That's it?
Do any of you use a ramdisk?
Or is it totally not worth it when you h ave an SSD?
I always wondered this.
>16 gb
Go be pleb somewhere else
>>46770261
I use ramdisk to store my temporary files. (firefox cache, binge downloads, etc)
I sometimes use more than this...
>>46770187
The amount of ram you have actually reflects what's required for the task you perform and can forsee performing in the future. It's not about consistency of usage so much as ever being in a situation where you ever absolutely need all of it, and are either very inconvenienced by not having that extra headroom, or would be outright crippled by it.
OP's ram usage hardly reflects usage patterns where any of their tasks are actually tied together or independent. It doesn't reflect a workflow where all the open applications are actually needed, and I highly doubt he/she will ever hit a scenario where their 16 gigs is at all justified. It just exists to fuel a lack of consciousness about their actions and the device they're using. Hence the
>lol 10 games open guise haha
And that's the real problem with people buying high amounts of ram and acting like they've ever needed it.
>>46770232
i've got 7 tabs open and i'm only using half a GB
i don't know what you retards are doing
>>46770303
interdependent*
>>46770315
more than you obviously.
>16gb
>>46770327
it's obvious you're doing something wrong with your browser
or you're lying, there's no way it uses 4GB for 12 tabs
>>46769951
Why would you do all these things on the same machine? It's like you want a messy system.
I have been using 4gb for over 4 years and I don't see a point in getting more.
When a program uses more than that I usually just made a mistake and fix that rather than buying more.
If I need more temporarily then I add swap.
>>46770363
what the hell makes you think his browser is using 4gb of RAM? The guy has VM's running, and they can be using the main share of the RAM.
>>46770394
follow the chain, i was responding to the guy who said this >>46770232
not sure why you felt the need to butt in
>>46770372
Dude, get out of this thread. You're runin shitix, and aint nothing of value run on that sorry xcuse of an OS.
>>46770413
this is what /g/ has become
>>46769951
>22% util
>Handbrake
>>46769995
reading understanding of a fucking fish
>>46769951
Are you the king of autists?
>>46770413
I thought this was about ram usage.
I even chose the most bloated DE on linux to see if I could max out the ram with normal usage.
I can't
I bought 16gb corsair dominator platinum for 250$
:-)
>he only has 16GB of ram
look at him! look at him and laugh!
fucking poorfags the lot of you
>>46769951
They didn't say 8gb is all you need for all cases. They said 8gb is what most people need. This was a couple of years ago anyway so of course the amount is going to increase.
>>46769951
/g/ only ever said you only need 8 gigs for gayming
I'm running 24, but if I were to build a gaming rig for a friend I would recommend 8gb
I have 16gb RAM installed but it says only 2.73gb available?????
does this mean my ram is broken? I thought the mobo won't POST if that's the case??
>>46770555
install gentoo
Photoshop can easily max this out in heavier use.
32GB would be optimal.
For normal use?
Yeah 8GB is plenty for daily use.
>>46770545
Yeah, poorfags are amusing.
>glorious 12 slot motherboard
Bought 2x4GB years ago, had a two slot board at the time so bought 2x8GB before the prices got jacked up. Had another 4GB stick left over from somewhere and bought another 8GB stick off Ebay because the price was good and it gives me triple channel. If only I could mix ECC with non-ECC, could get another six 4GB sticks off Ebay for like £13 each.
>>46770624
wat the fluck!!??
how u get 16 cores?
>tfw 12gb+2gb hidden
>>46769951
>>46770665
They probably have a dual socket motherboard.
>>46770665
>>46770701
That's a possibility, or he could have an 8 core with hyperthreading. I know in Windows 8.1 each graph is a "logical processor" i.e. a thread, not sure if task managers in older versions of Windows show cores or threads.
>>46770665
you just buy a 16 core cpu, or a dual socket board with 2x8 cores, or a quad board with 4x4cores,....
Just one project in After Effects is enough to convince you to get more than 8GB.
>>46770699
top kek
>>46770699
Kekd
Do the
>5'10
>6'
Next
>>46769951
I have 16gigs of ECC ram in my homemade NAS running NAS4Free with ZFS raid..don't need it in my main pc
>>46769951
why not just use virtual memory?
idiot
That feel, when 64GB would cut render times almost in half in Premiere Pro.
>>46770289
... Why do you have 32 GB of swap?!
You really only need 8GB if for games + general use. But yeah, you're gonna need more if that's how you use your PC
>>46770699
why would a king consider suicide?
hey bruhs since this is a ram thread, how easy is it to get ram to play nice with each other? I have 8gb of ripjaws 1866 and i've heard before that ram can sometimes not like other rams, is this still a thing?
what's the trick in using all 8GB of ram?
the max ive ever used was 5GB
Is it possible to have different amounts of ram in the different channels (e.g. Channel A 2x 4GB and B 2x 8GB)?
>>46770425
this is what /g/ has become
>>46770237
>ubuntu
>>46770747
leonard nemoy is dead now =^)
>>46770806
anyone else in this thread yesterday?
>>46770850
A close look would reveal that it's Kubuntu.
>>46770812
Run a bunch of virtual machines, run a heavily modded vidja game, do some intense video editing or graphics design. If you just browse /g/ then don't bother worrying about it, just sit back and be content with your mundane existence.
>>46770856
I didn't know there was a similar thread yesterday. I just made that right now. Is it groundhog day in here?
>>46770850
at least he doesn't post anime reaction pictures unironically
>>46770798
Different sizes and speeds should be fine, it'll just run at the lowest frequency. Also if you don't have the correct slots filled you could lose dual channel if the capacities are different. Of course for the best reliability and simplicity you should try and have all stick be identical.
>>46770819
Perfectly fine. With a 4 slot board that runs in dual channel each channel has 2 slots, as long as those match it's good. With a 2 slot board (i.e. most MITX) each channel only has one slot and so you have no option but to use identical capacities.
>>46770657 here
>>46770237
who cares, linux only has programs to use 2gb of ram
>>46770833
this is what /g/ has become
>>46770699
How does a pretty desktop save me?
>>46770888
That's true for the most part but browsers can easily eat most of that.
>>46770902
You can post in desktop threads and have your terminal in Arch showing 12gb of ram and say "I don't need anymore, im not a video game playing child and dont need to run VMs because i use FOSS for everything :^)
>>46770920
but I run ubuntu
>>46770699
8GB/10
Shiggery diggery doo
>>46770088
install gentoo
>Not having samsung LP LV masterrace
>>46769951
>listening to /g/
fuck these yahoo fucks
get as much ram as your mobo can handle
>>46770699
>king of ramlets
lel
saved
>mfw my work PC has effectively 3GB and is used mainly for photo editing
Having FF, PS and inDesign open already fills that out nearly entirely.
fucking crazy i remember when i upgraded my 64mb of sdram to 192MB, made a huge difference on win98se load times on my 600mhz P3. Next computer bought had 512MB DDR on 2400mhz P4, later upgraded to 1,5GB, next computer bought, had a core2duo 2,8ghz, oc'd to 3,6GHz with 4GB DDR2, now 16GB DDR3, core i7 4770k 3.5GHz.
I've maxed out at like 12GB while doing some photoshop stuff.
weird.
commercial ddr4 memory is just around the corner and you wasted your money on 16gb of ddr3, nice move.
>>46771546
>I've maxed out at like 12GB
>>46770699
Damn, it really is the cutoff.
>>46769951
I know this feel OP, I bought 16GB of 1600Mhz Corsair Vengeance at $85 back in late 2012. Best decision ever, because the same goes for like $140-160 now.
>>46771584
>implying that's your computer
retard pls
>>46769951
Unless you're running ITX, you should at least have 32GB ram you pleb
>>46771584
i always wondered why anyone would run windows on that box ?
>>46771584make -j160
>>46771704
because muh games need much ram.
>>46771757
>64 cores
>>46771627
Well it was my Computer but it hadn't enough RAM to open 2 Tabs in Firefox so i threw it in the trash can.
Now I got twice as much and installes WIndows 98 because its 9,8 times better than Windows 10 :^)
>>46771843
>>46771843
What is your CPU in that there puppy?
>>46771867
An Intel 4004, but I overclocked it a bit and downloaded more cores.
>>46771731
I get this reference. I too have installed Gentoo.
>>46771893
I am running one of them too! got it in my 2011 Macbook. Great CPU, and the downloadable cores are free too!
>>46770139
Slick boi
>>46769951
I have 16 GB of RAM, and all I run is cinnamon along with firefox with four tabs, a terminal running a vim and another sitting in the directory I'm working in.
That's like 2GB max. And it's all firefox.
>>46771961
>Minne
>>46772021
>Minne is best memory doe
>>46769951
It only matters if you built your own RAM.
Using a $35 single board device for lurking on the interwebs... Shit just works
>>46772159
> Having less than 2TB RAM
>>46770237
>32 GB RAM
>To run kubuntu
>>46772315
30GB of RAM to run VirtualBox, 2GB to run Kubuntu.
>>46772322
30 gigabites 2 run ur mum.
>>46772342
Go away Britbong.
>>46772348
k...
>>46769951
running 32gb since 2013, cost me 200 euro back then.
>>46770266
>>46770289
Why 1333mHz?
I'm developing android products with 3gig ram and a 1.2ghz processor. Video is a little slow, besides that, it works. Fuck you all.
