MxPhenom 216
ASIC Engineer
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- Aug 31, 2010
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System Name | Ryzen Reflection |
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Processor | AMD Ryzen 9 5900x |
Motherboard | Gigabyte X570S Aorus Master |
Cooling | 2x EK PE360 | TechN AM4 AMD Block Black | EK Quantum Vector Trinity GPU Nickel + Plexi |
Memory | Teamgroup T-Force Xtreem 2x16GB B-Die 3600 @ 14-14-14-28-42-288-2T 1.45v |
Video Card(s) | Zotac AMP HoloBlack RTX 3080Ti 12G | 950mV 1950Mhz |
Storage | WD SN850 500GB (OS) | Samsung 980 Pro 1TB (Games_1) | Samsung 970 Evo 1TB (Games_2) |
Display(s) | Asus XG27AQM 240Hz G-Sync Fast-IPS | Gigabyte M27Q-P 165Hz 1440P IPS | Asus 24" IPS (portrait mode) |
Case | Lian Li PC-011D XL | Custom cables by Cablemodz |
Audio Device(s) | FiiO K7 | Sennheiser HD650 + Beyerdynamic FOX Mic |
Power Supply | Seasonic Prime Ultra Platinum 850 |
Mouse | Razer Viper v2 Pro |
Keyboard | Razer Huntsman Tournament Edition |
Software | Windows 11 Pro 64-Bit |
4Gb is enough, but the gains in responsiveness with 8GB are quite high imho. Especially when you use a couple of different programs regulary and dont totally shut down your pc, but instead let it stay on standby.
With 8GB in my laptop, I notice theres almost never 'free space'(task manager shows there is lots of RAM 'available' but practically never alot of it is 'free'). Most of the 8GB is always being used as prefetch buffer which in turn decreases loading time for the various programs I use.
Especially when you dont have an SSD or very fast hard drive, more ram usually means quicker loading of random things that are getting prefetched.
So yeah, 4GB ram is enough, but more is better!
not only is it not "Free" is in the cache. which is waht Windows Vista did to the ram and made everyone think Vista was a ram whore