Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 7 hours agoI can never get people to understand this. I’ve got servers running on i7 8th gens, with stock 16GB ram. I could upgrade, but no need. People thinking they need 128GB to plays games are delusional.
Ashiette@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
To run games, you might need at least 32Gb. 64 Gb is sufficient in most cases. Still expensive af
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 hours ago
16GB is fine for most games, 32GB is handy if you run a lot of poorly optimized mods, but also memory compression helps with that significantly. 8gb of memory gets pretty cozy for gaming these days though, but again memory compression makes a big difference.
Both my and my wife’s computers have 32GB of RAM because it was cheap enough to not be worth worrying about, but if RAM is expensive you don’t need a ton of it to enjoy your games
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Yeah, this is my point and experience too. 32 is better, I’d say 16 min. But people crying about needing 128 should rethink their priorities for gaming, were in a recession lol. Save your money.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 hour ago
Are people throwing 128GB in for shits and giggles these days? I’m kinda out of the loop and still used to people arguing about if 32GB is excessive or not. Used to be only needed for media production and honestly it’s still debatable for pure gaming systems if more than 16GB is overkill