POLL - How much RAM do you have?

[P4-630]

16GB now, but will have 32GB in my next build.

Same what I'm gonna do.

 

[Bill_Bright]

It is surprising how quick 8GB can appear with many tasks when used with a decent CPU, decent graphics card, and most importantly, a nice SSD (assuming plenty of free space and you let Windows manage the PF).

 

[Volvo240]

I have from 128MB to 24GB. I was thinking of doing a 32GB build soon. X58 is getting too old….

 

[theFOoL]

Y'all remember that ASRock board LINK With 128MB onboard memory for... Something

 

[Hachi_Roku256563]

No idea why 32g is becoming the standard
guess people just like BIG empty numbers
i perfer to see my ram actually being used
not one game needs 32g
not one game even needs 16g

 

[theFOoL]

What about WoW or games like it?

 

[Mr.Scott]

Main rig is a SR-2 with 12 gig of memory. Does everything I need it to with no issues at all.

 

[Zyll Goliat]

No idea why 32g is becoming the standard
guess people just like BIG empty numbers
i perfer to see my ram actually being used
not one game needs 32g
not one game even needs 16g

Star Citizen is known to "Eat" a lot of ram 'tho that game is buggy mess in alpha....Some people (me included)love to keep open hundreds of pages in Chrome/Opera/browser in mulitple monitor setup+ playing some game in a same time and maybe streaming.....and here you go......not saying that is necessary of course Is not and I believe that 16Gb atm is going to do just fine atm but having more ram could be beneficial sometimes.....

 

[Hachi_Roku256563]

Star Citizen is known to "Eat" a lot of ram 'tho that game is buggy mess in alpha....Some people (me included)love to keep open hundreds of pages in Chrome/Opera/browser in mulitple monitor setup+ playing some game in a same time and maybe streaming.....and here you go......not saying that is necessary of course Is not and I believe that 16Gb atm is going to do just fine atm but having more ram it's kinda luxury in some weird sense.....

I do leave a bunch of stuff open buy that takes about 6gb Max

 

[Zyll Goliat]

I do leave a bunch of stuff open buy that takes about 6gb Max

Sure as I said...there is no need for it.... heh I love to keep even more stuff open...

Here me atm. playing RDR2 keeping open hundreds of tasks in Oprera and watching something on youtube....it's just exceed 16Gb of use(40%)...still more than 24GB free memory....as I remember I come close to the 30 Gb of memory use few times.....

 

[Hachi_Roku256563]

Sure as I said...there is no need for it.... heh I love to keep even more stuff open...
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Here me atm. playing RDR2 keeping open hundreds of tasks in Oprera and watching something on youtube....it's just exceed 16Gb of use(40%)

Yeah but a 16g system would actually probably be a ok doing that chause swap is

 

[Zyll Goliat]

Yeah but a 16g system would actually probably be a ok doing that chause swap is

Yeah sure...tho' if you exceed your total amount of ram you may experience some FPS drops in games or micro freezes

 

[Hachi_Roku256563]

Yeah sure...tho' if you exceed your total amount of ram you may experience some FPS drops in games or micro freezes

Only if the PC swaps out the game which is unlikely

 

[rtwjunkie]

The results so far are surprising. I went 32 GB a year ago just because I could and wanted to get ahead of the curve. I still felt like I was in the minority, but it turns out not so much, at least among TPU members.

 

[lexluthermiester]

The results so far are surprising. I went 32 GB a year ago just because I could and wanted to get ahead of the curve. I still felt like I was in the minority, but it turns out not so much, at least among TPU members.

While the number of programs and games in common use that will utilize 32GB are still in the minority, there are enough of them to justify 32GB becoming common use. I'm a bit surprised that the number of people using 64GB isn't higher.

 

[Ruru]

Ah, this was moved to this subforum, I should've posted this here already. Thanks to that moderator anyway who moved this here.

I'm actually kinda surprised that us 32GB users are a such majority.

 

[Hachi_Roku256563]

I'm actually kinda surprised that us 32GB users are a such majority.

i mean it is a forum of tech enthuisats
i bet if you looked at less enthusaists
it would be 8 and 16 in the lead

 

[Ruru]

i mean it is a forum of tech enthuisats
i bet if you looked at less enthusaists
it would be 8 and 16 in the lead

Well, on io-tech (the largest Finnish tech forum) 16GB is the majority so I'm surprised that here so many has 32GB

 

[Mussels]

64GB here, i dont need it but i wanted a "final" DDR4 purchase so that two sticks would max out whatever i left it with

In 10 years time this 5800x and 64GB should still be with me, running my home server or HTPC (my dads got my old 4770k w/ 32GB DDR3 2000, and its kicking ass for its age)

edit: for the post after mine, just pick the biggest one you have in the poll.

 

[Ruru]

Some of us have more than one system. You should allow for more than one answer. For example, I have 6 systems, 2x8GB, 12GB, 24GB, 32GB and 48GB.

But... I mean our main systems

I have 8GB on my HTPC and laptop myself

64GB here, i dont need it but i wanted a "final" DDR4 purchase so that two sticks would max out whatever i left it with

In 10 years time this 5800x and 64GB should still be with me, running my home server or HTPC

Well, I also got 32GB just because some futureproofing. 64GB would be more than enough as 32GB is already too.

 

[theFOoL]

Can I ask what's the highest ram on a graphics card and how much would we expect in the future? meaning the price/amount *Dear Lord

 

[biffzinker]

I started out with 16GB when prices were $280 then later added another 16GB for $80.

 

[Ruru]

Can I ask what's the highest ram on a graphics card and how much would we expect in the future? meaninbg the price/amount *Dear Lord

Well, RTX 3090 has 24GB but professional cards have more. Personally I have 11GB as I have a 1080 Ti.

 

[Mussels]

Can I ask what's the highest ram on a graphics card and how much would we expect in the future? meaninbg the price/amount *Dear Lord

Consumer its 24GB on the 3090, some workstation/rendering cards go even larger, supposedly a 48GB model is coming from Nvidia and AMD has 32GB cards
(that's going a little off this topic, however)

 

[joemama]

I have 32GB but it seldom uses over 16GB