Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices

• Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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      • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s not that it’s excessive, that’s a lot of money to spend right now with the way things are.

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