Every PC gamer in my circle did an emergency purchase of a new PC this year because as bad as it’s now, we all know it’s going to get a hell of a lot worse and probably won’t go down in at least 4 years if ever. Even my broke ass bought a 5080 and a 5800X3D (because I had 96GB DDR4 RAM already). Even my wife agreed better do it now than having to buy during peak AI price stupidity.
(I only have 64GB, but that’s my answer. Firefox still eventually runs out of memory and crashes, BTW. Not blaming the browser itself; I think there’s a memory leak in the JS in some of the tabs I keep open.)
I’m pretty much the same except for the last part. I’m no stranger to opening dozens of tabs and seeing my RAM usage go up, but instead of leaving them open long term, I’ll bookmark some and use Tab Stash to stow away the rest.
If I kept all my tabs open long term, I wouldn’t have enough RAM to do anything.
Virtualization work, also helps a with memory leaks with games occasionally. I’ve had 64GB RAM since 2011 with the x79 boards and never went below that quantity. RAM was cheap so why not.
Every PC gamer in my circle did an emergency purchase of a new PC this year because as bad as it’s now, we all know it’s going to get a hell of a lot worse and probably won’t go down in at least 4 years if ever. Even my broke ass bought a 5080 and a 5800X3D (because I had 96GB DDR4 RAM already). Even my wife agreed better do it now than having to buy during peak AI price stupidity.
What does one use that much DDR for?
Web browser tabs.
(I only have 64GB, but that’s my answer. Firefox still eventually runs out of memory and crashes, BTW. Not blaming the browser itself; I think there’s a memory leak in the JS in some of the tabs I keep open.)
Interesting. I use tons of bookmarks and close tabs/firefox frequently so I often forget that web browsers are capable of using that much memory.
I’m pretty much the same except for the last part. I’m no stranger to opening dozens of tabs and seeing my RAM usage go up, but instead of leaving them open long term, I’ll bookmark some and use Tab Stash to stow away the rest.
If I kept all my tabs open long term, I wouldn’t have enough RAM to do anything.
I’ll never understand people who use browser tabs as bookmarks. Tabs are meant to be temporary.
Virtualization work, also helps a with memory leaks with games occasionally. I’ve had 64GB RAM since 2011 with the x79 boards and never went below that quantity. RAM was cheap so why not.