I joined the 64gb ram master race

64bitmodels said:
if its 32gb of ddr5 not really
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Seth Meyers Omg GIF by Late Night with Seth Meyers
 
I've been on 16GB DDR4 for years now.
Running an RTX 4090 too. Not sure if it's affecting me much. It probably is somewhat, I'd upgrade my CPU, RAM and MB but I'm trying to save money.
 
64bitmodels said:
low effort thread. I am just happy to be off 16gb. That's all.

It's still sad we need so much ram to run modern apps these days, though. 64gb was an unthinkable amount to me a while ago

it's DDR4 by the way.
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I upgraded to 32GB in 2016 to be able to run Xenoblade Chronicles with the 8k textures mod. 0 regrets.
 
EverydayBeast said:
What is the logical amount of ram these days? And what purpose does ram serve again?
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32GB for modern AAA games, 64GB for big games like Sims or modded games. Ram is system memory it's the fast low latency memory your CPU uses, the human equivalent is working memory where the CPU is the brain and ram is parts of the frontal lobe.

Consoles have merged system memory and the specific GPU memory know as VRAM into one pool called shared or unified memory. But this comes with many compromises such as forcing your CPU to use slow high latency GDDR memory (good for GPU very bad for CPU).
 
Sentenza said:
I've been on 32 GB since 2020 and frankly I'm not sure if I would even benefit to any degree of upgrading to 64.
Is there even anything out there that benefits meaningfully of having that much?
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Professional apps, Sim games like Flight Sim, heavily modded games, running multiple heavy apps at the same time.
 
i've been on 64GB for a couple years now. yeah it's overkill but i like seeing numbers get bigger :)

can't wait to throw in a 5090 with 32GB VRAM. I'll have total 96GB RAM (6x PS5 Pro lmao)
 
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Only 24 here so still in the peasant range of the master race spectrum. Happy for your upgrade though OP. Maybe. Not really.
 
64gigabyteram said:
low effort thread. I am just happy to be off 16gb. That's all.

It's still sad we need so much ram to run modern apps these days, though. 64gb was an unthinkable amount to me a while ago

it's DDR4 by the way.
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Assuming your use case is not just gaming. If not, no game is requiring that much system ram, ever.
 
64gb for gaming and than ddr4 is just to much. Better go with 32 Gb of fast memory.
I target 64 GN, when I switch over to ddr6 (still on ddr4). It is just not required for gaming right now.
Even developing I don't need that much memory. And I don't see the workflows I would need this. Maybe 🤔 if I would cut videos or would develop AI, but that is just not my use case.
 
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UnrealEck said:
I've been on 16GB DDR4 for years now.
Running an RTX 4090 too. Not sure if it's affecting me much. It probably is somewhat, I'd upgrade my CPU, RAM and MB but I'm trying to save money.
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Get 32gb because you'll see your 1% lows come right up, 32 actually does help a fair bit with frame times and stutters.
 
Sentenza said:
I've been on 32 GB since 2020 and frankly I'm not sure if I would even benefit to any degree of upgrading to 64.
Is there even anything out there that benefits meaningfully of having that much?
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You can create a large RAM drive and load a game into it for near instant load times.
 
It makes a difference. The more ram you add, the more of it Windows will use. Windows will easily use10gigs out of 32gigs. That's just windows. It uses more to make things faster. Why have all that unused memory sitting there?

I feel like 32 is fine for now, but if ram was cheap, I'd always get as much as possible.
 
Speaking of 64GB RAM, are there any applications that can use the RAMdisk and become significantly faster? Provided how the gap in speed difference between RAMdisk vs SSDs is even bigger than SSDs vs HDDs.

I have used RAMdisk in the past but i haven't noticed any noticeable improvements compared to using an SSD. Even if there are, they must be very small.
 
Any performance gain in gaming from 6200 CL36 to 6600 CL 32? There's a good deal on the 96gb Dominator Titanium 6600 CL 32.
 
nkarafo said:
Speaking of 64GB RAM, are there any applications that can use the RAMdisk and become significantly faster? Provided how the gap in speed difference between RAMdisk vs SSDs is even bigger than SSDs vs HDDs.

I have used RAMdisk in the past but i haven't noticed any noticeable improvements compared to using an SSD. Even if there are, they must be very small.
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it would be fun to see how it impacts rift apart
 
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