Why the fuck do people have 16gb+ of ram...

Why the fuck do people have 16gb+ of ram? Why not just have 8gb and then create a swap partition/page file for another 8gb? Why waste over $200 on overpriced colluded ram when your spare hard drive space is basically free potential ram?

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swap is a lot slower than ram

To avoid swapping.

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god i want to fuck her

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It's useful if you run shit in vms or if you use more than one tab in chrome/Firefox :^)

For using Gentoo and compiling everything in tmpfs, of course.

Because I do actual work on my PC, user.

16 GB of DDR3 costs around $120, not $200

She's not legal.

16GB of DDR4 3200 only cost me like $80

Because I use Windows.

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you don't need more than 4 gigs of RAM, that's a fact

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>having zero understanding of RAM while posting on Jow Forums

Using the very fastest SSD would be infinitely slower than RAM, let alone a HDD. This is EXACTLY why RAM is even used in computers in the first place.

If you've ever run out of GPU VRAM while gaming, you'll see things literally become a 1fps slideslow, and that's basically the equivalent of what happens to an OS/software when all the RAM is taken up and disk swapping has to be used. Such a fucking retarded question OP.

woah, back off creep

>She

Because this is hell and I'm ready to die.

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Room temp IQ OP.

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>over 200 burgers

should've bought 16gb kit when it was less than 80 burgers

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>swap partition
Swapping is slow. If there is ever a point where you can expect your computer to use more than 8 GB of RAM, you should buy the fucking extra RAM.

I bought 32GiB of RAM specifically so I don't have to use swap.

I have 128GB of RAM. I bought it before the prices started to rise, for around ~$500 USD.

in my case I NEEDED 16gb of ram for my CS class

I had 16 GB in 2013. No really.

Back when "good" computers had 4GB or maybe 8GB.

in my case I NEEDED 16gb of ram for my CS class

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nice naime girl

Nice move, except that by the time all that RAMS becomes usefull you'll have like DDR200 in the market....

Cause I have a job and make money

16GB? What do you need 8GB for? 4GB should be enough for anybody. Here's 40 bucks kiddo, go buy a 2 gig stick.

But she's a ship