How much RAM you got?

[Violator]

Actually, if you look at the vote bar chart now, it looks like flipping the bird to '640K should be enough for anyone'.

Maybe it's just me

 

[zandor]

Actually, if you look at the vote bar chart now, it looks like flipping the bird to '640K should be enough for anyone'.

Maybe it's just me

My interpretation of the current stats is 2.5% are short on cash and using older rigs (8GB) and 0.2% take advice from Geek Squad (12GB). I'm a wierdo for having no 32GB machines. I've got 2 64GB desktops, a 16GB Linux box/home file server and a 16GB reasonably priced "thin & light" laptop I bought just to have something portable. Years ago I had 32GB in my old desktop, but then I ran out of ram messing around with some programming stuff so I upgraded to 64GB. Obviously you can't go backwards, so 64GB is now minimum for my main rig.

 

[funkydmunky]

I can't believe 16GB is in 3rd. I would have thought that would have been absolutely the run away majority.

 

[NamelessPFG]

My primary desktop at the moment (12700K/Z690) runs 64 GB (4x16 GB) of DDR4-3600 CL16, mostly because I got a sweet open-box deal at the local Micro Center and figured that DDR4 had just about bottomed out on the bell curve, so buy the decent stuff while it's cheap and still on the market before the market fully transitions to DDR5.

The next most recent desktop (7700K/Z270) runs 32 GB (4x8 GB) of spare DDR4-2666 from failed computers for the time being. It's probably going to get a faster kit later, though manually overclocking that stuff is also an option. (It used to have the aforementioned 64 GB kit, but I moved that forward to my 12700K build.)

My laptop runs 16 GB (2x8 GB), but I haven't upgraded it because the HP OMEN X 2S has a nasty thermal throttling problem under load and any money sunk into it would be wasted.

Next up: figuring out how I'm going to get another 64 to 128 GB of ECC unbuffered DDR4-3600 DIMMs for a forthcoming budget Threadripper build that I plan to homelab with. Can't use RDIMMs, and those are slower anyway.

 

[uOpt]

I am surprised that there are so few 128 GB systems. That has been the maximum for unbuffered-RAM platforms for a very long time. You'd think by the end of DDR4 a lot of people stuffed their machines.

 

[lopoetve]

I am surprised that there are so few 128 GB systems. That has been the maximum for unbuffered-RAM platforms for a very long time. You'd think by the end of DDR4 a lot of people stuffed their machines.

Consumer AMD gets finicky at the max - even Zen 3. I stopped my consumer boxes at 64G for that reason. Zen 4 is even worse since you lose so much speed to 2DPC.

I’d do it on Intel though.

 

[kamxam]

I'm planning 128GB on my next build sometime near or after the end of the year but with luck either newer stuff will be out or prices will go down more. Currently at 64GB on my system atm.

 

[LightsOut41]

I just switched out 32GB of 3200 for 64GB of 3600 on my Ryzen system. I hadn’t looked at memory prices in a while and it was cheap enough to do so.

 

[Zepher]

Consumer AMD gets finicky at the max - even Zen 3. I stopped my consumer boxes at 64G for that reason. Zen 4 is even worse since you lose so much speed to 2DPC.

I’d do it on Intel though.

The 5800X Crosshair Hero VIII I sold the other day wouldn't post with 4x16GB DDR4 3600 @ 3600Mhz. It will post set to Auto and it runs at 2666Mhz.
My friend didn't have much time so I couldn't mess with it. Is this the problem you are describing?

 

[lopoetve]

The 5800X Crosshair Hero VIII I sold the other day wouldn't post with 4x16GB DDR4 3600 @ 3600Mhz. It will post set to Auto and it runs at 2666Mhz.
My friend didn't have much time so I couldn't mess with it. Is this the problem you are describing?

Yes. With x470 and beyond when they moved everything to daisy-chained instead of T-top for memory trace layouts, it got stupid picky if you ran 4 sticks of any kind - getting XMP speeds was luck of the draw, or VERY careful parts selection (and often a couple of RMAs) to get ones that would play nice. Imagine AM5/Z690/Z790 on crack (those work, they just tell you you have to drop speeds - AM4 claimed you COULD get XMP, but "best of luck!"). Thus, you ended up with either full RAM but slow, or half ram and the right speed - couldn't get higher with DIMM density that existed at that time.

 

[Luke M]

24GB/48GB DDR5 modules starting to arrive...48GB may soon be the new sweet spot.

 

[Red Falcon]

I can't believe 16GB is in 3rd. I would have thought that would have been absolutely the run away majority.

With 32-bit code being retired and 64-bit code ballooning over the last few years 16GB is definitely not enough for anything beyond casual.
I've run up against the wall with 16GB with everyday programs, and only AAA games from the 2010s would work well enough with such a low amount, which is pretty amazing.

Since Hogwarts: Legacy released, that game essentially is the 16GB killer and even pushes systems with 32GB to their limits.
The game can utilize upwards of 17-20GB of RAM by itself and 13GB VRAM with max settings at 4K, so 64GB is starting to look much more attractive for serious gaming systems.

For professional workstations 16GB is laughable and should be the bare minimum for basic office work in 2023.
The days of 4GB and 8GB have long since past for anything that isn't a small development platform, mobile platform, or embedded platform.

 

[mngl1500]

Thanks to me not knowing G.Skill has limited lifetime warranty I now have 64. Had 32 and it tested bad, order 32 more and opened it up and read that G.Skill has lifetime warranty sent in the r a and 3 days latter had new memory from G.Skill and now I have enough for my virtual machine
S and then some

 

[Red Falcon]

My interpretation of the current stats is 2.5% are short on cash and using older rigs (8GB) and 0.2% take advice from Geek Squad (12GB).

Or rather that individual is using an older Nehalem platform with tri-channel RAM and six 2GB modules.

 

[riev90]

On my SFF ASRock x300 setup (Athlon 3000g, X300 with bios support to 5000 series), I use 16gb x 2 sticks of Hynix AFR & MFR (dual rank kits):

Running at default XMP 2666mhz c18 1.2v for now:

 

[LittleBuddy]

32GB 3800MT/s Samsung B-Die, timing's are as tight as I could get them at 1.4V.

I have a 32GB kit of DDR5 ready for my next build can't wait to tune it.

 

[dogDAbone]

Ram bam, thank ya ma'am, hehehe

Go big, or go home.... (and play with yourself while you wait for your stuff to open)

If it aint full of ram, it's full of shiite....

Personal/home machine = 64GB
Workstation = 256GB

 

[Gabymar]

I have 8GB on my home laptop. This is not enough for many programs, so I plan to buy a new one.

 

[dogDAbone]

I have 8GB on my home laptop. This is not enough for many programs, so I plan to buy a new one.

just curious but can't you just add moar ram to it, or is it an older model that it just makes moar sense to get a newer, faster, better equipped one ?

 

[uOpt]

Just paid for 256 GB for my server upgrade. Can't change vote.

 

[Gabymar]

just curious but can't you just add moar ram to it, or is it an older model that it just makes moar sense to get a newer, faster, better equipped one ?

My computer is quite old. While I used it primarily for searching for information and watching YouTube videos, I now need to install some programs for work.
Therefore, I believe it is time for me to upgrade to a newer model.

 

[dogDAbone]

My computer is quite old. While I used it primarily for searching for information and watching YouTube videos, I now need to install some programs for work.
Therefore, I believe it is time for me to upgrade to a newer model.

Yep for sure, if you're running work stuff, which hopefully are reasonably modern, it only makes sense to run them on a rig that is similarly modern, not only for compatibility reasons, but the all important SUPEEEED, hehehe

 

[Kerby1280]

In my household I've upgraded the main PC to 32gb. My kid's pc is still at 16gb. My gaming laptop is at 32gb and my son's gaming laptop is also at 32gb.