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

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Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨day⁩ ago
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  - Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    you did notice the person youeare replaying to is using linux, right?
    
    they are correct, 16gb goes a loooooong way in linux. I know begause I too have 16 on m* work and gaming rig and ram has never been a bottleneck
    
    your comments sound like typical windows experience
    
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    Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Because windows caches aggressively.
    
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OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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