What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM?

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• ausMuenster@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You can run AI Models in it. Probably ones with 70b or up to 60b of you want to do other stuff while running them.

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• scarilog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I built my PC recently and splurged to get about 100gb of ddr5, thinking it was going to be a waste of money.

  I couldn’t have been more wrong, there are occasionally times when I’m almost running out of memory. How? Multiple desktops, each with tons of programs and stuff open, including probably like several hundred Firefox tabs open at the worst of times.

  Basically, extra ram has allowed me to kinda postpone the responsibility of having the close programs, maintain cleanliness, etc. I still have to stay organised using desktops so I don’t go crazy with the number of things I have open, but I’m the limiting factor here, not my computer. And that’s a super liberating feeling.

  TL;DR: you can NEVER have too much ram.

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• joe_archer@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Does it have RGB? If not just bin it. It is worthless anyway.

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• the_q@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Unused RAM is wasted RAM.

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• MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  More than I could do on my Apple IIe at 64k.

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• SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Keep it and wait for the applications to bloat up. You won’t feel like you have an excessive amount of RAM in a few years.

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• yarr@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Here’s what you can do with your impressive 64 GB of RAM:

  Store approximately 8.1 quintillion (that’s 8,100,000,000,000,000) zeros! Yes, that’s right, an endless ocean of nothingness that will surely bring balance to the universe.

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  • yoevli@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unless something’s gone over my head here, this is off by around 6 orders of magnitude.

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    • yarr@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A long sequence of zeros compresses really well :)

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• eyeon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I used to have a batch file to create a ram disk and mirror my Diablo3 install to it. The game took a bit longer to start up but map load times were significantly shorter.

  I don’t know if any modern games would fit and have enough loads to really care…but you could

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The best thing about having a lot of RAM is that you can have a ton of apps open with a ton of windows without closing them or slowing down. I have an unreasonable number of browser windows and tabs open because that’s my equivalent to bookmarking something to come back and read it later. It’s similar to if you’re the type of person for whom stuff accumulates on flat surfaces cause you just set stuff down intending to deal with it later. My desk is similarly cluttered with books, bills, accessories, etc.

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  • scarilog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah this is exactly me. Also a quick tip, if you’re on windows, there are some registry tweaks you can do to help prevent the GUI slowing down when lots of programs are open at once.

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have 64 and am about to upgrade to 128GB

  I run windows in a VM. Nothing heavy, just to test some things on the shitty windows systems

  I run multiple databases, MySQL, PostgreSQL, redis, MongoDB, memcached, all with extra memory available, for development

  I run a large array of services directly and in docker containers. Transmission web, the ARR suite, jellyfin, next cloud, immich, onlyofffice, various PHP apps, the list goes on.

  8GB is the bare minimum if you only browse 16GB Is the bare minimum if you also run other apps 32GB Is a good amount to work with 64GB is a requirement if you do development or have a lot of services 128GB is a normal amount for a developer

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• Shape4985@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Run a local LLM

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• Shape4985@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Be in virtual machine heaven

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• fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  700 Chrome tabs, a very bloated IDE, an Android emulator, a VM, another Android emulator, a bunch of node.js processes (and their accompanying chrome processes)

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• BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Keep (checks math) 3 more teens open in chrome.

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• Ordoviz@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Store your Firefox profile and all tabs in RAM for snappier browsing: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox/Profile_on_RAM

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• stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Download DeepSeek’s 64B model.

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I actually did. I deleted it as soon as I realized it wouldn’t tell me about the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

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    • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But the local version is not supposed to be censored…? I’ve asked it questions about human rights in China and got a fully detailed answer, very critical of the government, something that I could not get on the web version. Are you sure you were running it locally?

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh, c’mon, I’m sure it told you all about how there’s nothing to tell. Insisted on that, most likely.

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• user1234@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You could use it to finally level off that wobbly table in the kitchen.

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• janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fold At Home!

  foldingathome.org

  You can essentially donate your processing power to various science projects that need it to compute protein folding simulations. I used to run it whenever I wasn’t actively using my PC. This does cost electricity and increase rate of wear and tear on the device, as with any sustained high computational load. But it’s cool! :]

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  • Willy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thought this was obsolete as of like a year ago. Did they update it?

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    • janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      seems like the last update was 23 Jan 2025

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  • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Does additional 32 GB of RAM actually help there? I’d assume this is mostly CPU-intensive work.

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    • janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      looking into it, seems like you’re actually right. looks like it runs best with a solid GPU. there may be other distributed computing projects better suited for abundant RAM.

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• XTL@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You could run a Java program, but you’d quickly run out of ram.

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• Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Depends a lot. If you are going from 2 ram slots in use to 4 ram slots in use, usually the max clock speeds go down a lot. So the performance will decrease for just about everything you do, whilst the use case for such a setup is very limited.

  I have a couple of extra ram sticks to get from 32 to 64gb when I need it. I bought them because I was debugging a rather memory intensive tool. Not only did the tool run in debug mode, which added a lot of overhead. The memory profiler needed to be able to make memory snapshots and analyze them. This just about doubled the memory requirement. So with 32GB I often ran out of memory.

  However my Ryzen 5950X does not like 4 sticks of ram one bit. Timings need to be loosened, clocks need to be reduced and even then the system would get unstable every now and again for no reason. So I pulled out the 2 sticks going back to 32GB as soon as the debugging job was done. They are in a drawer in an anti static bag, should I need them. But for day to day 32GB with 2 sticks is a much better experience.

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  • QuarterSwede@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And that was with the same RAM on all 4 sticks?

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    • Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes 4 identical sticks, same brand, same series, same type, same physical chips on the stick.

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• potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Qubes OS

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  • QuarterSwede@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Honestly, this is the answer and also the future of OS’s.

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• potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Run a LOT of VMs

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• JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I can take 'em off your hands. Three fiddy.

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  • I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    God damn Loch Ness Monster, get your own damn memory!

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• vividspecter@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  • Compressed swap (zram)

  • Compiling large C++ programs with many threads

  • Virtual machines

  • Video encoding

  • Many Firefox tabs

  • Games

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• Jesus_666@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Run a fairly large LLM on your CPU so you can get the finest of questionable problem solving at a speed fast enough to be workable but slow enough to be highly annoying.

  This has the added benefit of filling dozens of gigabytes of storage that you probably didn’t know what to do with anyway.

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• grandel@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sell it to somebody at a medium, medium cost who needs it

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• nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  im sorry but you can’t do anything with it i guess you’re fucked

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• scottmeme@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Open 1000 instances of vim

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• remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Photogrammetry (with Meshroom) or 3D scanning (point cloud alignments and processing has some beast requirements).

  Meshroom would gladly use any resources it can find within a 20 mile radius.

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  • razorozx@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    +1 For meshroom Used it with side hobbies. Was fun! 👍

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This looks promising. Do I have to be artistically gifted to use it?

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    • remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not at all. It absolutely is horrendously complex at times, so be warned. However, it’s an awesome learning project, if you like those kinds of things. (Paw through YouTube for photogrammetry projects as it’s really neat stuff.)

      I “stole” a big fossilized rock specimen by taking a 4k video with my phone from all angles. Extracted a few thousand frames and rebuilt it. It doesn’t look like much without the surface texture, but I was able to generate a reasonable 3D model. (Meshroom has also been the only app to thermal-throttle my 7950X3D.)

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• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You can install it in a compatible computer.

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Which I did

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    • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Excellent!

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    • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      thanks

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