Is 12GB of RAM enough for today's standards?
>>55147590
You need AT LEAST 1TB dude
Today's standards of what, vidya?
>>55147599
Everything
>>55147590
8GiB is enough unless you have
-Multiple VMs
-Producing high-end video/audio
-Working with 3D animations
>>55147621
For games and heavy memory programs like Premiere Pro, After Effects, AutoCAD, etc 16GB is the standard.
For everything else 8GB is more than enough.
>>55147674
show me two games that require 16gb of ram. before you say mirror's edge 2, i ran the beta with 8gb of ram just fine, 1440p, hyper settings.
If you have your pagefile on an SSD, you don't need more than 8GB. Don't fall for the meme.
>tfw fell for the 128 TiB RAM meme
Yeah you'll be fine, 8GB is common.
I've got 32GB but that's cause memory prices are so low I decided to max out my system
All memes aside, as long as you have 4GB of RAM you will be ok. Windows 7 takes up 0.7-1.4GB of RAM and Chrome uses less than 1GB with only a few tabs open. You can still get a lot of work done with the 2GB left over in photoshop/blender.
However if you plan to browse 50+ internet tabs and do heavy photoshopping or 3D animation then 8GB would ideally be the minimum you should have.
Just to be safe get 8GB though, you can so so for less than $30 nowadays so cost isn't really an issue to be honest.
It's crazy when you think about it but you had to pay close to $200 in 2016 dollars for just 1GB of RAM. Technology sure has advanced.
>>55147750
modded skyrim will hit that pretty easily, it's why I upgraded to 16gb
>>55147590
>dumb makiposter
>>55147763
>pagefile
>SSD
enjoy your toasted drive, faggot.
>>55148491
>he doesn't know
>>55148491
That's bot how it works anymore. Even modern cheap MLC SSDs (ie sandisk SSD plus) can sustain ~3,000 wrire cycles before they begin to fail. So about 1,400 TB of data for a 480GB MLC SSD. They also have better wear leveling in controllers that the first shitbird SSDs from 2010.
That's a fuckton of data to write.
>>55147590
nah mate, you better go 64GB, just to be safe
>tfw you can open 5 chrome tabs AT THE SAME TIME, pretty crazy
>it only takes 46GB
I bought 16gb for my laptop because it was on sale, never used more than 4gb.
fug
>>55147674
This. Screwing around with linear algebra in an interpreted language and blow through 8gb easily. 16gb saves quite a bit of time while prototyping on a local machine.
32 GB minimum
>>55147590
get 14
>>55147590
more than enough usually
>>55147590
I'm probably gonna do 16 in my next build to dick around with VMs
8 is enough for a non-work PC unless you are a gamer.
8GB of ram is around $30 isn't it? Pretty good bang for your buck. Why not get an extra stick and do 16GB in your build? What if you decide to suddenly find yourself with 50 browser tabs open and you want to use photoshop and keep a VM running at the same time? Just do it.
>>55148938
>decide to find yourself
disregard "decide to". worded it poorly. tried to say the same thing 2 different ways at the same time as i typed it
>>55148938
Don't forget to add taxes for superiors EU residents.
>>55148240
>modded skyrim
Nobody gives a fuck about your absurdly high res grass textures.
>>55148491
Why did you use that time machine to travel 8 years into the future just to post this on 4chan?
>>55147750
Arma III Will go above 8, at ultra
FUG
I top out around 14 gigs used rendering out of Premiere
>>55149211
jealous because his game will NEVER look this good
>>55148355
That's Komari you dumb nigger.
>>55147645
So basically it's enough for Linux users.
>>55148586
...Is 3000 cycles a lot? It really doesn't sound like a lot.
>>55147750
that new tomb raider game consumes like 13-15gb of ram
>>55150899
Yes, especially when they have extra space for it to fail. Basically better longevity than hard drives now.
>>55148237
>you had to pay close to $200 in 2016 dollars for just 1GB of RAM.
what did he mean by this?
>>55147590
I went from four, then to 12 (for a week), and upgraded to 16. Comfy and don't need to worry anytime soon about memory stuff.
>>55150925
He's converting prices of what 1GiB of ram used to be to todays dollar due to inflation.
i have 2x 4gb of ram right now.
can i just get 2 more sticks to make it 16? assuming same brand and all that?
>>55150918
Then what is a cycle? I presumed it was like... writing the amount of data the disc can store. I figure a heavy user can easily do that 3000 times within a year or two.
>>55150717
If i wanted to see nice looking grass, I would go outside. For games, I am looking for good storyline or competitiveness. Graphics is just complementary and overdoing it makes no sense.
>>55147674
>he fell for the 16 GiB meme
>>55148586
>>55148501
>he doesn't know how much data is written to the pagefile
>>55147590
Not for firefox.
>>55147645
What a fucking lie
>>55150885
No, especially not if you use gnome or KDE.
>>55152163
8 gb is plenty for GNOME or KDE. They're a little heavy but let's not exaggerate.
>>55152238
This is completely wrong, except if you just stare at them without using any programs. Gnome + firefox can easily eat 8 GB relatively fast.
what the fuck am i supposed to do with 16gb ram
I regret falling for this meme
>>55152255
1. Run a VM
2. Have two identities.
3. Make your non-sandboxed identity a pedophile and the sandboxed one a clean cut guy
4. Confuse CIA.
5. Everyone has a good laugh.
>>55152267
>Everyone has a good laugh.
dunno about that m8
>>55152253
I'm running unity right now and have 6 tabs open (5 are YouTube) in chrome and i'm using ~3GB of RAM. You're full of shit.
>>55152298
I do not know about unity, never used it.
>and have 6 tabs open
Only? You must not have many important things to do on your computer.
>>55152303
So your problem is not GNOME, you just manage your RAM poorly.
>>55148237
>50 tabs
fucking casual im using over 900 tabs.
>>55152318
It is actually, only gnome shell from the uncountable kde and gnome services just after the boot wastes around 500MiB
>>55148824
>non work pc
>unless you are a gamer
the fuck are you going to use a pc for if not for work or gaming?
>>55152287
>Everyone has a good laugh while destroying your asshole in the county jail.
>>55152341
YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, etc.
>>55152330
Sigh...
>>55152356
but anon, thats what phones and tablets are for.
>>55150738
*Koma- chan
>>55152357
xD
kill yourself
>>55152341
programming
internet
>>55152403
>work
>phone
>>55152253
No, it can't.
>>55147599
nah
op just wants to run google chrome
gonna need 16gb min
>>55147590
It's just enough for a VM/Waifu2X/Minecraft Server.
>>55152163
>what a fucking lie
except it's true, you retarded fuck.
>>55152669
that's only enough for 4 tabs bro, will need 32GB if he wants to more than 4 tabs.
>>55152508
Not even using gnome and it's already at 4.5GiB, why are you lying?
>>55148491
Did you just arrive from 2012?
>>55150885
18+ site little faggot
>>55152381
Don't call her koma chan
claiming daughteru
>>55147590
I use 4GB just for the hash tables for my chess software.
>tfw upgrading from 14 to 24GB because I want to leave chrome in background when playing vidya
>all these "chrome uses a lot of ram" memers ITT
>>55148240
>>55150679
>>55150914
You're all fucking retarded. The fact that a game uses that amount of RAM doesn't mean it needs to.
Games free shit they don't need (ie. not on screen) when they can't allocate more memory and they need it.
>>55152504
Why the hell would you use a tiny phone as your primary way to access the internet.
>>55154960
because stating "internet" as something specific is retarded
so i said something you could relate to
>>55147590
If you need to ask, 8-16GB is enough.
Read the "The Physical Memory table" part from here: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/windows-and-office/investigate-memory-usage-with-windows-7-resource-monitor/
Basically in heavy usage you want to see almost none of "Free" aka wasted memory (light blue), and plenty of "Standby" (darker blue), which is memory not required right now, but cached for fast access. When your "standby" memory starts to get smallish, say below 2:5 or 1:4 of your total memory, you'll need want more.
>>55147590
500mb will do
>>55147590
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
>>55151004
SSDs use load balancing, to to kill a drive you'd have to write it's capacity X it's maximum write cycles. If you're writing 1400 TB+ every year or two you'll have problems with a spinning drive too.
>>55152745
8 isn't enough for multitasking anymore.
>>55147645
I have 8gb of ram and have never had an issue as an electronic musician
>>55151647
This lmao
>>55151647
>good storyline
Don't you mean if you wanted a good story you would watch a film?
>>55158730
I'd play Minecraft if I wanted a good story.
>>55147590
I barely ever use more than 2 of my 8.
