Comment on DDR4 costs soar as manufacturers pull the plug — panic buying and stockpiling impact DDR4 spot pricing as supply dwindles

• ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I have 8GB in my laptop running mint, its used for browsing, office work, 3D print slicing, and occasionally I torrent a file from it…it is absolutely no issue whatsoever and it never even breaks 4GB use unless it’s actively slicing a 3D model. 16GB minimum I can agree with for gaming, but for desktop use as mentioned above you can easily get by with less.

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  • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    for desktop use as mentioned above you can easily get by with less.

    Sure, as long as you’re willing to deal with the performance hit of constantly swapping to disk.

    Even SSD drives are a magnitude slower that any modern RAM stick, so you’re adding TONS of processing time by running that little memory. And gods help you if your swap is on spinning rust…

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    • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If that was the case I wouldn’t have 4GB of idle ram just sitting in my PC. There is no unloading to swap when 50% of available ram is unused.

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      • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      SSDs are fast enough as swap to be imperceptible to the untrained eye. A good test is to disable swap for a while. You can bet they will see their system grind its gears at some point.

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You can run it on 8GB. Doesnt mean you won’t benefit from more.

    Your system outsources the memory to swap space or is memory starved and needs to unload programs.

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    • DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It might mean you won’t benefit from more. If it’s got 4GB of headroom, why would adding more help?

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      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I could cut your desk helf in half.
        Sure you can fit your keyboard and maybe your mouse on it but how about any additional documents?
        Might be a bit annoying to work with?

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