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In this crazy market, do I just bite the bullet and upgrade? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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My PC 10 years old this month and I really need an upgrade, I have a newer GPU so only need the rest of the fucking owl.

The biggest issue of course is the RAM PRICE, Do I just take the plunge and spend €1800 on 128GB of 6000MT CL40 RAM? Or do I pay more/gb for 64GB of faster RAM?

I'm buying to last me another 10 years preferably. I'll probably go for the latest top of the line AMD CPU and the best mobo/psu I can get.

I don't really have a fixed budget but I'm trying not to spend the next 6+mo worth of money on an upgrade.

Any advice?

Edit:

I use it for work, I work in tech, I run a lot of memory heavy stuff, I use it for CAD, dev, gaming, etc. I'm constantly running at 90% ram utilisation on my 32gb ram. I'll copy what I said below:

I'm sitting at around 90% utilisation constantly on 32 and FF keeps crashing because I'm out of memory.

I work in the tech field, so it's sometimes docker, lots of CAD, games (often with said cad program and browser in the background)

Current specs: i7 7700k, 32GB DDR4, 2080TI

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[–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If it saves a lot of money short term i would maybe think of considering a maxed out am4 build? The CPUs available on that platform are still pretty dang good, ddr4 should be more affordable, would also allow you to buy more of it, assuming the amount of GBs is more important than the pure speed. Depends on the usecase i guess.

[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I did consider that too, but I think I'd rather just swallow some of that price not to have to do this again any time soon.

[–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's understandable. It just sucks that these prices are like this right now. I'm still using an older am4 board that i maxed out a few years ago with the 5800X3D, so now i'm just trying to stick with that for as long as i can. Hopefully this pricing situation doesn't last long, but i'm not very hopeful about that.

[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago

Neither am I, I don't see it changing much in the next year or two.