I'm seeing more and more people opting for 32GB RAM these days

Cuz Chrome is a ram hog.
People like to flaunt that they've got 32gb.

I only have 32gb because ram prices are so fucking high, or I would have 64gb.

Sitting at 14gb used just at 18% cpu utilization from the sheer amount of multitasking being done. Easily limited by 32gb when I'm doing heavy PS or video editing.

I've got 16gb and the only thing that ever used that much was an old version of Cemu that was really inefficient with it's memory usage. Although at the time I was actually considering upgrading to 32gb because I've got the slots and why the fuck not right?

I upped my old rig to 32gb cause i got a killer deal on ddr3 that actually matched my old set. Then a few weeks later i decided to build a new pc instead so now my mum has this pc with 32gb of ram and not even a storage drive that she does her work on

Because simple programs get ever more resource hungry. That's not necessary at all, but they do it to make you buy more RAM. It's all one big conspiracy.

I bought 32GB before the prices skyrocketed. DDR3. My friend bought 16GB for the same price I payed for 32GB.

Why did I do it? it was 40 dollars more? I'm not poor enough where I care about 40 dollars. I do video editing, but even that never gets above 18GB used. Cemu emulator will eat the most RAM though with shader caches. That's like the only program that'll utilize all of it, because of an Nvidia bug.

CAD based programs can use up a lot of RAM if you want a simulation to have fine enough detail, thats why im looking into getting 32

fucking "webdevs" that's why we have web bloat, thus chrome eating more RAM.

Maybe future proofing, or maybe they just need it.

I bought it before prices skyrocketed. It was like 50% as expensive as 16GB, and in total cost less than 16GB does today. I had ran out of 16GB a few times before, so I thought why not?

Basically it's nice to have freedom. You can have a whole bunch of large games open at once and not have to close any of them. You can allocate 8GB to a couple of VMs at once and basically have freedom to do most things in the VMs, or you can allocate 2-4GB and still be able to do most things while also being able to spin up like 14 at once, no trouble. You can feel absolutely free to cache everything; I can use large texture packs in Dolphin (like the Xenoblade one) with the "load to ram" option, meaning zero stutters during gameplay, and I can run cemu with absolutely never worrying about memory - and I can usually have some other games and stuff idling in the background while doing this. I even once had to run a PDDL planner for an assignment and having 32GB meant I could let it run for longer and get more solutions out of it than my ramlet classmates.

In short, it's nothing essential unless you're doing something specialised which you KNOW requires a lot of RAM (like fucktons of raw 4k editing or something), but it's just nice to have if you didn't overpay for it (or are a richfag with two 1080tis and don't care about "overpaying").

I'm pretty sure this isn't true, at least in my country. Most people here have 4GB or 8GB, the more rich have 16GB and that's it. I have 64GB only because it was $300 in 2016.

>16GB

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Tell me one reason other than the cost?
I ordered 32gb for my new system, and I did that because I've been on 16gb for years and have had a few instances were the ram hasn't been enough. And as applications are getting bloatier I see no point in not trying to futureproof a new build by buying less than 32gb. My current system wouldn't have lasted me this long if I opted for 8gb instead of 16gb back in the day, so I see no point in not doing the same again.
And there's nothing bad with having too much ram, even if your applications doesn't fill your ram, your OS will fill it with cache and therefore boosting your system and saving your drives.

But people who buys either 4x8 for their dual-channel system or 8x4gb for their quad-channel systems today should be beheaded.

jfl at niglet tier casuals who don't max out 16gb

altho tbqh it's mostly bc chrome is a piece of shit

Future proofing. I guess they're gonna keep their system for a while. My 2600k is 7 years old and I bought 16gb of RAM with it and glad I did.

because they want to be on the high-end pc train. unless they use google 99% of them dont even know what RAM does to their computers and why they would need 32GB of it. those are the idiots these companies target and sell them products making them think they definitely need them because they have higher numbers on them. hur dur brainlets

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Because they're gamer fags who have a bunch of bloatware running in the background while running demanding games...
>le discord
>le 15 chrome tabs with twitch open

>futureproof.
if someone bought early 64gb kit with shitty mhz and CL then never maxing them out, i will laugh at them.

Because I didn't want 4GB DIMMs and I have a quad channel motherboard.

So 4x8GB is 32GB.

Only reason you need that memory is because you have bunch of malware/botnet infections on your computer and you get high memory and think you need to upgrade cuz thats the problem, or an actual programmer that need to compile ton of shit.

Probably due to the fact everyone is a cheap shit when it comes to software optimization now days.

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I have 8GB of RAM and only shut down (reboot) my pc once a month when I run pacman -Syu

>32gb of ram
>spending more on ram than a 2700x

tfw full fledged KDE isnt even an issue on RAM, and I use nightly with 50 tabs open at all times
Wincucks btfo

What if they bought a 2700x or 8700k as well?
Because everyone is using their computer for internet browsing only.
This is a factor, and that applications are getting more features all the time, and that they are getting so complex that they are hard/impossible to program without help that makes the application bloaty.
I fucking hate those gaming computer-centers with >200K cores and terabytes of ram. Why would anyone buy a better computer than the one I have, they are surely not doing anything else with it than me.
>Nobody else knows anything about computers, I'm the only enthusiast out there.

I got really lucky and got 32GB for the price of 16GB.

When I got my 32GB of RAM it was only $160

good luck rendering a scene with materials containing several 16bit 8k textures.

because fucking shitty windows and all the fucking bloated spyware that auto updates and phones home. auto sends telemetry and usage.

blocking 9000 google ads eats memory

Which is why i said renders. For the gamer, businessman and like theres no need for 32gb and 16gb is still on the higher end.

To use all DIMM slots

processor threads are easy to share among guest systems
ram is harder to share

I edit video and need ram

Because 128GB is fucking expensive
t. spent more on ram than cpu and motherboard combined

Chrome + GTA V can easily use 10GB+ of RAM.

Better buy it now than wait for the upcoming 200% increase in the already inflated ddr4 prices.

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soon on Jow Forums

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I honestly think it's just bragging rights. When 8GB was standard for gaming people would gloat about you being a pleb because they have 16GB. Now 16GB is becoming the de facto amount, people buy 32GB. Unless you're doing specific tasks that demand that much RAM, it's unnecessary. For gaming purposes, it's a waste.

Also this. If you're buying 32GB now for "muh future proofing" then what's the fucking point? By the time games actually demand 32GB yours is going to be outdated and there will be much better, faster and (hopefully) cheaper RAM available.

I have that mouse

you mean

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I have 128GB of ram because I am using a rack server as my main

Why do people use gaudy cases stuffed full of liquid cooling pipes and reservoirs filled with brightly colored liquid? Why do they meticulously route their cables like its the large hadron collider, and stuff everything full of LEDs? Why do they use two or three graphics cards where one will suffice? Why do they get sound cards when their motherboard already puts out a 128db SNR?

Its cause
>muh temps
>muh framerate
>muh resolution
>muh audio quality
>muh aesthetics
>my god it even has a watermark

DCS Word recommends 32gb and only runs at acceptable performance out of a ramdisk.

They use Chrome as browser, probably.

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I honestly would if RAM prices weren't so insane

8GB is the basic needed for browsing the web. 16GB will let you use a lot of tabs. 32 will let you do more. 64 GB is for VMs.

Everyones a youtuber these days and want to render 4k ranting videos. No one needs careers or degrees.

Well some people want to future proof their machine. I got 16GB ddr3 ram in 2012 and my PC runs fine. Most can't get the full benefits of higher clock speeds.

Might as well get it if you can afford it. Same mindset behind getting 16gb. It's way more than the average user will need, but it's always good to have it available.

I'm a gamer and a dev and my current setup is i5-4460 with 8gb RAM and my fucking piece of trash still works.

maybe they're all developing for Android, who knows

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>No this is for normal gaming setups as far as I know.
computers are used for work too, you fucking retard

Because 16GB is the standard these days for not needing to close programs if you want to do something intensive. 32GB is just futureproofing for years down the line when 16GB is now "yeah it's usable tier but..." like 8GB is right now.

I guarantee this exact conversation happened 4 years ago with people buying 16GB.

I got 32GB DDR4 2133MHz for ~$270, from a seller that sold them as used... RAM turned out to be new, sealed modules.

Make that 6 years ago

Literally the only thing that requires more RAM for home use are graphical applications with high-resolution textures and complicated models. You're not running a server, nor are you dealing with big data sets so the RAM is in fact a complete waste unless you are purposefully trying to reach that limit by leaving tons of programs running that you don't need.

>I guarantee this exact conversation happened 4 years ago with people buying 16GB.
You'd actually be correct. Except it was only two years ago. I remember those threads. People ended up agreeing that 16gb was perfectly fine while the few 4gb cucks insisted that even 8gb was too much.

>GiB
Gibs me that correct Gb spelling

You mean crypto mining?

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What a waste. 8GB is all you need.

Can't wait for this shit to shift over to specialized hardware so everything else drops back down in price. Fucking pricks.

gnome

I can't afford 16Gb DDR4, let alone 32Gb!

>he fell for the asic meme
All worthy coins are asic resistant bby.
Pic related, making $200 on 0xbtc/day with this shitty 1070 rig

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3D rendering workloads that are still CPU bound, editing and color grading raw cinema DNG files in Resolve

Maybe you should stop printing money, faggot.

>by leaving tons of programs running that you don't need.
But that's the point, if I didn't need them I wouldn't have them open. If you have to close things you're running in order to do something else you need more RAM.

>crypto mining
how does crypto mining use non-GPU memory?

>But that's the point, if I didn't need them I wouldn't have them open.

You won't have so many programs open that you need to close them in order to do something else if the only programs running are the ones you need. My point still stands.

I have to close things to do something else because clutter on my task bar makes me have an autistic fit, you fucking bigot.

you need 8-16gb for some algos

More number is more better, because obviously my dick is huge if I have 64Gb Sharon please come back honey I have 64Gb now soon 128Gb Please tell me you aren't with that small Mexican boy again

Unused ram is wasted ram. Pointless having that much of you don't need it.

I need it.
If you don't know how to use 32gigs of ram you're clearly a brainlet.

Looks better to fill up the motherboard.

Why do people buy over priced anything?

Why the fuck is RAM so expensive these days? Back when I built my PC I got 4x 4GB DIMMs for $80. $5/GB. Now looking at upgrading to 32GB DDR3 (4x8GB) the prices are insane, like $270-300+. What happened. It's been years since the Hynix fire now, there's no excuse for these prices.

I use slack sometimes

>there's no excuse for these prices
lel
theregister.co.uk/2018/04/30/dram_vendors_sued_again_for_price_fixing_again/

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Hope they get fined.

But I hope they get fined something like a symbolic dollar, so people will think that's been settled. Then they can do it again, pocket huge profits, pay the tax again, and my stock will go up.

Because everything needs RAM these days and demand outpaced supply super hard. Even if you don't count phone's being disposable and everyone buying 16GB in their laptops because it's non-upgradable there's still unfulfillable demand from the cloud/server market.

He fucking types out commands...that's pathetic.

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hope they die in brutal "accidents"

and im over happy with my 4GB Ram, kys nerds.

Question is, how much did they drive up the price? 10%? 50%?

They enjoy getting fucked by the ram cartels

Try 85-100%

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Given the prices were about $5/GB in 2011-2012 it's now gone up to about $9.375/GB which is an increase of 187.5%. Given some small variation in prices from different vendors let's say on average 175-200% increase.

So it will take you 20 days to repay for those cards..... nice...

No, the GPUs aren't his only cost and fake coins worth 200 dollaridoos doesn't mean you'll receive 200 dollars by selling them.