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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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[–] halfwaythere@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (7 children)

What are you doing on a 10 year old PC that would necessitate 128GB of memory on the new one? 32GB should be sufficient when it comes to ram for most users. 64GB max. Even for the next 10 years.

Edited to reflect OPs edit!

[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

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)

Edit: just realised I typoed, it's 10 years, not 20, sorry.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You may want to check if that's 90% of active utilization or things just holding onto the memory "just in case". If your running CAD, gaming, and have containers actively running at the same time, then yeah 32GB may just be cutting it, but I would find it suprising that you're actively using 90% frequently.

I guess more ram could mean not having to worry about spinning the containers up and down, but the only time I hit anywhere near 32GB is when doing heavy data workloads and those are times I'm not worried about running anything else.

[–] 0xKesh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

I have one thing that drives my RAM usage up to about 45ish GB (64GB in my desktop) and that's Star Citizen, and the whole reason why I installed 64GB.

Outside of that though, it is nice to have the headroom to basically do whatever I want, and multitask like crazy. But I rarely see my usage get over 25GB outside of SC.

For reference, this is on my desktop running Nobara

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