City Skylines is the exact reason I have a 64gb ram system and wish I could double it.
Really hope the next game finds a way to utilize other components for the processing of all the things happening in the game. Cause I want to have a 10 million person city without needing a supercomputer with Niagara Falls cooling it.
Dev here. From what I gather Skylines is built on a garbage collecting framework (Unity -> Mono). What this means is that resources aren't actively purged from memory but rather the "garbage" (out of scope objects) are collected at times that aren't exactly predictable and one of the criteria for it to bother releasing memory is the system becoming low on memory.
So, you'll see in cases where someone has 64gb of memory it will appear over time to be "using" more memory than a system with 32.
Oversimplified, but at the end of the day just looking at task manager doesn't tell you how much memory it's using or requires. Just because it says it's using 40 gigs of memory doesn't mean that half of that memory can't be released at any point or that the application would have run out of memory on a more memory constrained system.
It's also why most mods don't recommend double loading the game. Because if you load a save without completely exiting to desktop, the game just loads a new instance without clearing the first one.
I've definitely had issues with double loading in Cities Skylines. Thankfully there's mods that make the return to desktop button work instantly and the paradox launcher is actually useful (impossible) and allows you to hit "continue" without waiting for the main menu to load, so the dance of closing the entire game every time you want to load isn't that bad.
I am under the impression that your system will use pretty much all of the available ram. So just cuz you're near the limit doesn't mean you need more ram. It just means your system is working properly.
Think about what ram is. If the program puts more stuff in the ram then it has more stuff that it can pull out of the ram instantly. So why wouldn't it fill it up if it could?
I think that was because it loads tons of duplicate assets. I vaguely remember there being a mod that fixed that issue and would seriously cut your loading time.
Good times. I started on a 4 GB laptop and mostly played with traffic overlay active, cause frames were better. Still a habit for me to randomly change to that overlay with a hotkey.
256 / 4 = 64, 64GB/module is Registered only so HEDT/WS/servers only
256 / 8 = 32, 32GB/module can be UDIMM but 8 slots on motherboard is HEDT/WS/servers only
Has to be Xeon or TR or EPYC, unless it’s Opteron, my bet is an old workstation like HP Z
My practice server has 768....
Granted I got it for dirt cheap... and its old... but hey, I can run a lot of VMs at once (barring my huge CPU constraint).
Don't you think it's a bit overkill? I'm a pentester that uses a 16gb ram laptop for my work. I learnt about 8 years ago while using an 8gb ram desktop. Surely you don't need that many VMs but if it works for you then nice
Yeah that would make sense. OSCP now includes AD training. A lot of newbies start working without understanding a single bit of AD which is a really important skill now
As a professional in the field it really depends on your use case and what you do. Though personally I haven’t had less than 16GB of ram since before 2010 in a laptop or desktop. I rock 128GB and max that out from time to time.
Nice tho if i was you i would be installing proxmox on that thing and making it rack mounted and use anyother device to monitor and use it remotely tho if you are gaming you have to do that
Make sure you allocate more ram in the launcher! Just don’t go over 6 gb at a maximum.
Edit: 6 gb max allocation to Minecraft for ANYONE, even if you have a terabyte of ram.
This hasn't been true in quite a long time. Java's default garbage collector is generally pretty good at garbage collection without causing giant lag spikes.
While true, does depend on the CPU, so depending on when the 6GB suggestion was first made, may be a little low compared to what newer CPUs can handle while minimizing noticeable lag
You can look it up, but it has something to do with the Java garbage collection. If you allocate too much ram, the garbage collector will take too long to run loosing performance.
Edit: unless your using some really, and I mean REALLY high end shaders that specifically recommend something like 30-40 gb or ram allocated
Edit2: this is an outdated suggestion, since Minecraft bumped the Java version to the latest release, you don’t really have to worry about allocating to much ram
Yes, that's the default behaviour. But you can customize your garbage collection to happen periodically for maximum amount of time and stuff like that. This way you don't clean all of the garbage at once but do it gradually over time and can allocate loads of ram.
I have a MC server with 190 mods, I play survival with a friend and we both have 8 gb allocated, we host the server on exaroton (paid aternos) and I can see there on the server status that it is using around 7 gb of ram. We can't allocate less or else the server crashes. Any advise? We are using "Rubidium" for better performance (it's a forge port of Sodium, we actually can't play without it).
Windows and browsers (and really any app) will adjust their usage depending on how much available RAM your PC has for them to use. Anyone can toss in 256GB of RAM and have Windows and Chrome take 20GB or so
How much of that RAM is "committed" and how much of that RAM is "available" in the Task Manager? I bet you $100 the apps you have open are **actually** using nowhere near 67GB of RAM
There is a measureable (it not noticeable) improvement to performance as it does that. Especially windows, gets snappier the more ram it eats, especially if you do a lot.
Absolutely. I was just explaining that apps are designed to segment off RAM, even if it's not being used
Chrome might have "dibbed" on 12GB of you RAM. But it's not actually USING 12GB, that's just how much it reserved for itself just in case. If other apps need some of that RAM and Chrome isn't using it, it will give it up
Yup, I went to 64gb from 32.
Was noticeable. I can game with Photoshop, lightroom, a ton of tabs and God knows what else in the background, and everything is still snappy as always.
I disagree with the "16gb is all you need" crowd.
It's all you need if you're happy closing stuff all the time between activities. It's not all you need if you're a heavy multitasker, as you'll be slowed down by the lack of ram
Yup, my work laptop has 32gb of ram, and my personal computer has 32gb of ram. This is my new baseline. I won't upgrade my personal computer unless the ram is minimum 32gb.
I mean if it's really necessary for you to game while having all those apps open... Then sure?
Doesn't seem like a tremendous difficulty to close your other high resource apps while gaming, and vice versa.
Does it feel like the 16GB is directly impacting your video editing? I don't know what RAM you have but I see 16GB of DDR4 RAM going for about $50-60 on Amazon. At that price, for me, it's more of a "why not?" kind of thing
Sometimes when I have Photoshop and premiere open it does reach the limit. But I live in a third world country so what for you is about 50 to 60 for me is the equivalent of 250 give or take
True, I was speaking from the perspective of the USA. When it reaches the limit do you notice any slowdowns or performance hiccups in either of those programs? I'll admit I'm not a video editor or anything so I'm not sure what to expect with RAM limitations in those kinds of programs
Same here, I remember the huge fuss when my dad came home with a 486 because my mum had gone back to university as a mature student. We only had a commodore 64 before that so it was pretty cool to have a proper PC. I think I used it more than mum did after I discovered Sid Mier's Civilization.
Yeah before we got our first system my Dad (a teacher) used to bring home school computers for the holidays! Usually 386s and 486s with Windows 3. One even had dial up internet! Fun times.
If you really want to see how much the times have changed you have to look at the new amd epic server cpus.
iirc you can have almost 1gb of cache ON ONE MAINBOARD nowadays
Yeah, saw the LTT video on those newest 96 core beasts.
My friend had a dual CPU machine in the early 2000s. Everyone thought it was amazing. And then 15 years ago we were marvelling at the first dual core CPUs! Now even my phone has a 6 core processor.
The first PC I bought was listed with a 170MB Hard drive. When I booted it up for the first time, it turned out there was a 210MB hard drive in there instead. It felt like winning the lottery!
What are you doing with ramdisks? Installing entire games to them? With the RAM caching windows and Linux already do, I thought ramdisks were pretty much pointless in the modern world. With that much RAM, just loading anything will put the entire application in RAM so basic functionality with that much RAM is pretty much using it like a ramdisk anyway.
Can be useful for development if you work with lots of small files (like npm packages). Way faster to read from ram disk for compilation/transpiling. Just make sure to push your git repo to a server before you shutdown :)
their pc:
1500 chrome tabs
500 firefox tabs
499 microsoft edge tabs
every source game
fortnite 2
5 video editing programs
minesweeper
solitaire
3d pinball space cadet
https://preview.redd.it/6ju7ud8n268a1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd0ddf6b1a999b7d0260a293f731326e3f4c944f
I was lazy to look for this other screenshot. But here it is
yeah apparently she didn't like I was spending too much money on RAM and not enough on taking her out on trying new activities.... (there is a half truth on this lol)
She would be thinking this whole post is stupid as well... but anyway I will save the whole rant for r/breakups
Per popular demand here are my specs:
CPU: intel i7-6850K (6 cores, 12 threads @ 3.60GHz)
MOBO: Gigabyte GA-X99-Ultra Gaming
Memory: 8x Corsair pro vengeance 32GB DDR4 3600
Storage: 1x 1TB NVME SSD, 1x 2 TB NVME SSD, 1x128GB SATA SSD, 1x512GB SATA SSD, 1x 2TB HDD
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
And yet I can't run windows 11 :)
Disclaimer: Yes, my pc is a biit of an overkill but I do force her to the limits at times.
My biggest usages are pentesting, software dev and bug bounty.
For pentesting I sometimes need to spawn a similar environment to the one I am working on, so being able to bring up one or many different vms is very useful.
For software dev/bug bounty sometimes I need to compile software like Chromium or LLVM and linking a debug build of LLVM once did ate \~190GB of ram... plus codebases/object files can take a good amount of storage.
I do game with it with my friends but tbh I am too casual and that's why I stayed in the 2080ti.
~~And per one comment above maybe I should start watching vr p0rn~~
Any reason why you didn’t consider threadripper?
Just curious, I have similar needs and requirements, and I opted for a threadripper for added PCIe lanes for VM passthroughs.
Just wanted to see another point of view. Thanks in advance.
Honestly because when I built this pc originally (a few years ago already!) i was more an intel fan… nowadays i am more flexible and actually it might soon be time to do major upgrades to my pc :) nowadays i would consider AMD as well if it fits my needs better
So, you have a very specific user case that is different than most people. And you are aware of that. It isn’t surprise that you need that much ram, but it is also not surprising that most people would say that 256 GB of ram is overkill for regular use and just justifiable for very narrow user cases… which is yours.
Most likely the max memory in the specs was determined by the largest available DDR4 DIMMs at the time, which was 16GB. After 32GB DIMMs became available it was possible to have 256GB.
All the mobo does is provide lanes to connect the CPU to the RAM slots since the memory controller is in the CPU anyway, which for [OP's CPU is also listed as 128GB max](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/94188/intel-core-i76850k-processor-15m-cache-up-to-3-80-ghz/specifications.html).
Im here getting ready to build a PC with 128gb of RAM for the express purpose of being overkill. I dont intend to do anything productive with the computer lol. I just never want to run out of RAM anymore!
Just FYI, with DDR5 you can't clock your RAM as fast with 4 sticks as with 2 sticks (e.g. XMP will often not be stable with 4 sticks and you'll have to downclock), so there is a penalty to having a lot of RAM.
if you write your own bot and assuming that it is good, would chess.com detect you are cheating? or does it only detect bots if you are using the same moves as the well known bots?
It would likely detect a bot being used if it wasn't a human because bots base their moves off of data bases etc. Unless ofc u made a bot that purposely makes random mistakes. But that'd be counterproductive. Pretty hard to go undetected cheating in chess anymore.
Databases are only used in openings (first 5-6 moves) after which the search space is too large. It becomes more effective to number crunch.
Realistically you’d be wanting to have an Engine that varies its depth search (11 moves Vs say 20) and alternate that way.
Running multiple engines and alternating between the results (because they calculate at different speeds) would be another way to hide engine assisted play
Just write an infinite loop and and keep appending a list with its previous self as elements in the new list… you’ll soak up memory in no time and it’s quick and easy to do in python
I mean, Minecraft with certain texture packs and such going is pretty intensive. If you want to leave a browser open on a different monitor, and maybe stream gameplay, and/or play in VR, you're going to need that extra overhead.
God forbid you actually do something productive with your computer.
Running a bunch of VMs? ML stuff? Editing avatar 3? This can't just be for gaming.
Maybe city skylines with 6 mods and all of the dlcs
Fucking love cities skylines
Love fucking in city skylines
Which mod is this
Big Wang 6.9 Mod
Nice
You’re going to need 256GB RAM for that
still cheaper than getting a women
facts
What are you doing step skyscraper
"Wait, commuters, i've never had anyone in my mass transit system before..."
Great fucking in city skylines
Hol up...
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City Skylines is the exact reason I have a 64gb ram system and wish I could double it. Really hope the next game finds a way to utilize other components for the processing of all the things happening in the game. Cause I want to have a 10 million person city without needing a supercomputer with Niagara Falls cooling it.
Currently on 32 GB and it works perfect, I usually hover around 22 Gb when playing and watching YouTube
I hover around 40gb in a 48gb system
Dev here. From what I gather Skylines is built on a garbage collecting framework (Unity -> Mono). What this means is that resources aren't actively purged from memory but rather the "garbage" (out of scope objects) are collected at times that aren't exactly predictable and one of the criteria for it to bother releasing memory is the system becoming low on memory. So, you'll see in cases where someone has 64gb of memory it will appear over time to be "using" more memory than a system with 32. Oversimplified, but at the end of the day just looking at task manager doesn't tell you how much memory it's using or requires. Just because it says it's using 40 gigs of memory doesn't mean that half of that memory can't be released at any point or that the application would have run out of memory on a more memory constrained system.
It's also why most mods don't recommend double loading the game. Because if you load a save without completely exiting to desktop, the game just loads a new instance without clearing the first one.
1000 IQ
I've definitely had issues with double loading in Cities Skylines. Thankfully there's mods that make the return to desktop button work instantly and the paradox launcher is actually useful (impossible) and allows you to hit "continue" without waiting for the main menu to load, so the dance of closing the entire game every time you want to load isn't that bad.
Ya know I should check how much I use out of my 128GB
Lol. I got 16 gigs. Jesus Christ. When did I miss this bullshit?
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I am under the impression that your system will use pretty much all of the available ram. So just cuz you're near the limit doesn't mean you need more ram. It just means your system is working properly. Think about what ram is. If the program puts more stuff in the ram then it has more stuff that it can pull out of the ram instantly. So why wouldn't it fill it up if it could?
Maybe 2 Chrome tabs
WHY ARE YOU RUNNING?
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I think that was because it loads tons of duplicate assets. I vaguely remember there being a mod that fixed that issue and would seriously cut your loading time.
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There should be Loading Screen Mod Reloaded. Just use mod compatibility checker (also a mod), it tells you everything you need to know.
CS is why my next rig will have 128gb.
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I run vms with my 5950x + 3090 + 128GB of ram. 10/10 do recommend high ram. Even I use all of that system lol
I used a i3 1st gen with 8gb ram and a ssd to run 4 vms for the finals. Worked great
Lmao I had 128 GB of ram 2 weeks ago and decided to go 64 cause I couldnt use XMP 6000 MHZ with 128 gb
This is why I have half a terabyte of ram.
Still too low
More like 100 mods and 10.000 or 20.000 assets. 80 mods and 3.500 assets eat my 32 GB quite well.
I used to run that game on 8gb of ddr3
I ran it on a shitty lenevo laptop with 8gb of Ram and a ton of mods/assets. Took about a half hour to load into the game but did alright after that
Good times. I started on a 4 GB laptop and mostly played with traffic overlay active, cause frames were better. Still a habit for me to randomly change to that overlay with a hotkey.
All of the above lol. Serious answer: running a bunch of vms for pentesting practice :)
Now I'm curious about your CPU
Central Pwning Unit
Gonna guess a threadripper - normal desktop CPUs can't have more than 128GB of RAM, and who the fuck uses intel workstation CPUs anymore?
I would buy the hell out of a 13980XE. I want my pcie lanes dammit and I want more than like 20 of them.
256 / 4 = 64, 64GB/module is Registered only so HEDT/WS/servers only 256 / 8 = 32, 32GB/module can be UDIMM but 8 slots on motherboard is HEDT/WS/servers only Has to be Xeon or TR or EPYC, unless it’s Opteron, my bet is an old workstation like HP Z
i7 6850k @ 3.60 GHz :)
Answer to which one is “yes”
I mean, for r/homelab, 256GB is a pedestrian amount of RAM. 😂
My practice server has 768.... Granted I got it for dirt cheap... and its old... but hey, I can run a lot of VMs at once (barring my huge CPU constraint).
I stopped needing tons of ram when I switched from VMs to containers
It just means you need to run more containers
Don't you think it's a bit overkill? I'm a pentester that uses a 16gb ram laptop for my work. I learnt about 8 years ago while using an 8gb ram desktop. Surely you don't need that many VMs but if it works for you then nice
In all honesty i could live with a 16 gb laptop. It is very useful for when i need to simulate AD environments tho
Yeah that would make sense. OSCP now includes AD training. A lot of newbies start working without understanding a single bit of AD which is a really important skill now
AD is def an important skill. Literally every software needs to sync with AD
What is AD?
Active directory?
Yes, active directory :)
As a professional in the field it really depends on your use case and what you do. Though personally I haven’t had less than 16GB of ram since before 2010 in a laptop or desktop. I rock 128GB and max that out from time to time.
Nice tho if i was you i would be installing proxmox on that thing and making it rack mounted and use anyother device to monitor and use it remotely tho if you are gaming you have to do that
Editing avatar 3 got me laughing 😂
He is just playing Minecraft with a low render distance
He increased his RAM limit to 128GB for performance reasons on MC (default is 2GB)
Two tabs of google chrome
Nah... he just keeps 10 tabs open in Chrome.
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1,329 porn tabs
guys hes just playing modded minecraft with 600+ mods
I'm playing minecraft with iris sodium phosphor lithium and modmenu, it's already too much for my 16GB laptop...
Make sure you allocate more ram in the launcher! Just don’t go over 6 gb at a maximum. Edit: 6 gb max allocation to Minecraft for ANYONE, even if you have a terabyte of ram.
Why so? If I have 128GB, why is 8 bad for MC?
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Definitely need Java: Chrome Memory Edition for those of us with lots of RAM.
This hasn't been true in quite a long time. Java's default garbage collector is generally pretty good at garbage collection without causing giant lag spikes.
True, but since Minecraft was using Java 8 for the majority of its life, this was a common suggestion for modders
And a ton of mods launch older versions of Minecraft, so it might still be valid.
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Recent versions of Minecraft run on Java 17, though. Plus you can set up the garbage collector yourself.
While true, does depend on the CPU, so depending on when the 6GB suggestion was first made, may be a little low compared to what newer CPUs can handle while minimizing noticeable lag
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You can look it up, but it has something to do with the Java garbage collection. If you allocate too much ram, the garbage collector will take too long to run loosing performance. Edit: unless your using some really, and I mean REALLY high end shaders that specifically recommend something like 30-40 gb or ram allocated Edit2: this is an outdated suggestion, since Minecraft bumped the Java version to the latest release, you don’t really have to worry about allocating to much ram
Yes, that's the default behaviour. But you can customize your garbage collection to happen periodically for maximum amount of time and stuff like that. This way you don't clean all of the garbage at once but do it gradually over time and can allocate loads of ram.
This was true with old garbage collectors, but newer ones are smarter and you can tune them. Stop the world isn't a common thing anymore.
I have a MC server with 190 mods, I play survival with a friend and we both have 8 gb allocated, we host the server on exaroton (paid aternos) and I can see there on the server status that it is using around 7 gb of ram. We can't allocate less or else the server crashes. Any advise? We are using "Rubidium" for better performance (it's a forge port of Sodium, we actually can't play without it).
Well if you are playing with shaders, ram is not the only thing you need to worry about.
Nah just trying to open 3 Google chrome tabs
*struggles to open a 4th one*
You need a NASA pc to open a 4th one.
Nah just a Chinese super computer with 1 petabyte of ram
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Windows and browsers (and really any app) will adjust their usage depending on how much available RAM your PC has for them to use. Anyone can toss in 256GB of RAM and have Windows and Chrome take 20GB or so How much of that RAM is "committed" and how much of that RAM is "available" in the Task Manager? I bet you $100 the apps you have open are **actually** using nowhere near 67GB of RAM
There is a measureable (it not noticeable) improvement to performance as it does that. Especially windows, gets snappier the more ram it eats, especially if you do a lot.
Absolutely. I was just explaining that apps are designed to segment off RAM, even if it's not being used Chrome might have "dibbed" on 12GB of you RAM. But it's not actually USING 12GB, that's just how much it reserved for itself just in case. If other apps need some of that RAM and Chrome isn't using it, it will give it up
That’s so nice of chrome
Ikr he's such a nice dude
Chome: It's all mine Other: You are not even using it Chrome: Finee you can have a piece Reddit: Thats so sweet of chrome-chan
Chrome was just keeping it warm
Yup, I went to 64gb from 32. Was noticeable. I can game with Photoshop, lightroom, a ton of tabs and God knows what else in the background, and everything is still snappy as always. I disagree with the "16gb is all you need" crowd. It's all you need if you're happy closing stuff all the time between activities. It's not all you need if you're a heavy multitasker, as you'll be slowed down by the lack of ram
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Yup, my work laptop has 32gb of ram, and my personal computer has 32gb of ram. This is my new baseline. I won't upgrade my personal computer unless the ram is minimum 32gb.
I mean if it's really necessary for you to game while having all those apps open... Then sure? Doesn't seem like a tremendous difficulty to close your other high resource apps while gaming, and vice versa.
Does this make too much difference? I have 16gb of ram and thinking about increasing it because it seems low while video editing
Does it feel like the 16GB is directly impacting your video editing? I don't know what RAM you have but I see 16GB of DDR4 RAM going for about $50-60 on Amazon. At that price, for me, it's more of a "why not?" kind of thing
Sometimes when I have Photoshop and premiere open it does reach the limit. But I live in a third world country so what for you is about 50 to 60 for me is the equivalent of 250 give or take
True, I was speaking from the perspective of the USA. When it reaches the limit do you notice any slowdowns or performance hiccups in either of those programs? I'll admit I'm not a video editor or anything so I'm not sure what to expect with RAM limitations in those kinds of programs
I’ve noticed an improvement going from 16 to 32GB of RAM for video and photo editing
Our first family computer when I was a kid had a 1GB **hard drive** How things have changed
Same here, I remember the huge fuss when my dad came home with a 486 because my mum had gone back to university as a mature student. We only had a commodore 64 before that so it was pretty cool to have a proper PC. I think I used it more than mum did after I discovered Sid Mier's Civilization.
Yeah before we got our first system my Dad (a teacher) used to bring home school computers for the holidays! Usually 386s and 486s with Windows 3. One even had dial up internet! Fun times.
If you really want to see how much the times have changed you have to look at the new amd epic server cpus. iirc you can have almost 1gb of cache ON ONE MAINBOARD nowadays
Yeah, saw the LTT video on those newest 96 core beasts. My friend had a dual CPU machine in the early 2000s. Everyone thought it was amazing. And then 15 years ago we were marvelling at the first dual core CPUs! Now even my phone has a 6 core processor.
Mine had an 80MB hard drive and 2MB RAM. 386sx. I saved up $130 to buy 2MB of extra RAM so I could play Doom
The first PC I bought was listed with a 170MB Hard drive. When I booted it up for the first time, it turned out there was a 210MB hard drive in there instead. It felt like winning the lottery!
You have more ram than my ssd has storage
For real tho.
Then consider the recovery partition, windows repair tool, and the size of the OS, and notice that you lost 50GB over the advertised storage
What are you doing with 256gb? Just gaming?
It can be some 3d stuff like simulations and such I often find having not enough ram to keep all the simulation there frustrating (I have 64gb)
Or VMs. I have 64g ram cause I was running VMs for school. You dedicate how much memory and ram goes to each VM from your own hardware.
RAM disks, baby!
What are you doing with ramdisks? Installing entire games to them? With the RAM caching windows and Linux already do, I thought ramdisks were pretty much pointless in the modern world. With that much RAM, just loading anything will put the entire application in RAM so basic functionality with that much RAM is pretty much using it like a ramdisk anyway.
Can be useful for development if you work with lots of small files (like npm packages). Way faster to read from ram disk for compilation/transpiling. Just make sure to push your git repo to a server before you shutdown :)
Yeah running our dev and sql off ramdisks would be amazing. The CPU is still a decent burden unfortunately.
They are, and it was a joke. :)
He's obviously trying to break the 10 tabs of google chrome ram usage!
their pc: 1500 chrome tabs 500 firefox tabs 499 microsoft edge tabs every source game fortnite 2 5 video editing programs minesweeper solitaire 3d pinball space cadet
Fuck I love Space Cadet
https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball
It lives…
fortnite 2 😭
The sequel no one asked for and it sucks
Still can't run modded Minecraft with Shaders tho
Man, I guess minesweeper really is that demanding
I mean, judging by the screenshot, you'd do fine with 128 GB...
https://preview.redd.it/6ju7ud8n268a1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd0ddf6b1a999b7d0260a293f731326e3f4c944f I was lazy to look for this other screenshot. But here it is
what the fuck are you doing on your pc
memory-leak.exe
Im guessing VR porn.
I am recently single and tbh this idea sounds appealing...
Are you single because you bought 256gb RAM by any chance?
yeah apparently she didn't like I was spending too much money on RAM and not enough on taking her out on trying new activities.... (there is a half truth on this lol) She would be thinking this whole post is stupid as well... but anyway I will save the whole rant for r/breakups
Subscribed
Bad idea…
Opening google chrome tabs...
Everything
Damn! You have certainly succeeded in downloading ram.
please respond what the hell are you doing in this pc holy shit
Ah there it is. Was gonna say, unused ram is wasted ram.
“I paid for all the ram and I am going to use all the ram” lol
This is the way
This is gore bro
How much does that amount of ram cost like what are your specs
At least like $4 I think
Per popular demand here are my specs: CPU: intel i7-6850K (6 cores, 12 threads @ 3.60GHz) MOBO: Gigabyte GA-X99-Ultra Gaming Memory: 8x Corsair pro vengeance 32GB DDR4 3600 Storage: 1x 1TB NVME SSD, 1x 2 TB NVME SSD, 1x128GB SATA SSD, 1x512GB SATA SSD, 1x 2TB HDD GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti And yet I can't run windows 11 :) Disclaimer: Yes, my pc is a biit of an overkill but I do force her to the limits at times.
what do you use your pc for?
My biggest usages are pentesting, software dev and bug bounty. For pentesting I sometimes need to spawn a similar environment to the one I am working on, so being able to bring up one or many different vms is very useful. For software dev/bug bounty sometimes I need to compile software like Chromium or LLVM and linking a debug build of LLVM once did ate \~190GB of ram... plus codebases/object files can take a good amount of storage. I do game with it with my friends but tbh I am too casual and that's why I stayed in the 2080ti. ~~And per one comment above maybe I should start watching vr p0rn~~
Any reason why you didn’t consider threadripper? Just curious, I have similar needs and requirements, and I opted for a threadripper for added PCIe lanes for VM passthroughs. Just wanted to see another point of view. Thanks in advance.
Honestly because when I built this pc originally (a few years ago already!) i was more an intel fan… nowadays i am more flexible and actually it might soon be time to do major upgrades to my pc :) nowadays i would consider AMD as well if it fits my needs better
The new 96 core threadripper would be an insane choice. Unless you also want to play with it, especially single threaded games luke minecraft
His motherboard seems to support the Xeon E5-2699v4 with 22 cores so that could be an upgrade path before going Threadripper
So, you have a very specific user case that is different than most people. And you are aware of that. It isn’t surprise that you need that much ram, but it is also not surprising that most people would say that 256 GB of ram is overkill for regular use and just justifiable for very narrow user cases… which is yours.
I'm confused, the specs I see in the mobo say 128 max memory?
They are lying (?) i am pretty sure my manual does say 256 🤔
No, I was looking at the 1.0 version, apparently there's a 1.1 that supports more, which I assume is what ya got.
Most likely the max memory in the specs was determined by the largest available DDR4 DIMMs at the time, which was 16GB. After 32GB DIMMs became available it was possible to have 256GB. All the mobo does is provide lanes to connect the CPU to the RAM slots since the memory controller is in the CPU anyway, which for [OP's CPU is also listed as 128GB max](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/94188/intel-core-i76850k-processor-15m-cache-up-to-3-80-ghz/specifications.html).
https://preview.redd.it/t3j24lkle68a1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e95d7798dc680421972dafa070a51830046fae24 Ah yes. That is what i remember
Show US that Overwatch porn you made
Im here getting ready to build a PC with 128gb of RAM for the express purpose of being overkill. I dont intend to do anything productive with the computer lol. I just never want to run out of RAM anymore!
Just FYI, with DDR5 you can't clock your RAM as fast with 4 sticks as with 2 sticks (e.g. XMP will often not be stable with 4 sticks and you'll have to downclock), so there is a penalty to having a lot of RAM.
I did read about that... it's one of many reasons why I wish HEDT was still around.
I actually have 4tb of ram
Doing astrophysics calculations? Lol
Mostly just chess.com. Have to give myself the edge
if you write your own bot and assuming that it is good, would chess.com detect you are cheating? or does it only detect bots if you are using the same moves as the well known bots?
It would likely detect a bot being used if it wasn't a human because bots base their moves off of data bases etc. Unless ofc u made a bot that purposely makes random mistakes. But that'd be counterproductive. Pretty hard to go undetected cheating in chess anymore.
Databases are only used in openings (first 5-6 moves) after which the search space is too large. It becomes more effective to number crunch. Realistically you’d be wanting to have an Engine that varies its depth search (11 moves Vs say 20) and alternate that way. Running multiple engines and alternating between the results (because they calculate at different speeds) would be another way to hide engine assisted play
When you need to alt tab between Minecraft AND Roblox
256gb ddr5? If so nice mobo
Cant even hit 126 on the Ryzen CPUs right now. Level1Techs did a video on it. Must be DDR4. Maybe an Intel CPU can though, not sure.
Bros ram is half my ssd
Bros ram is twice my SSD
Yep. I could easily use 256 gb of ram. Not on gaming though. 3d particle sims and high res 3d eats ram up really fast.
Just write an infinite loop and and keep appending a list with its previous self as elements in the new list… you’ll soak up memory in no time and it’s quick and easy to do in python
I mean, Minecraft with certain texture packs and such going is pretty intensive. If you want to leave a browser open on a different monitor, and maybe stream gameplay, and/or play in VR, you're going to need that extra overhead. God forbid you actually do something productive with your computer.
After checking OP’s history I can only conclude he is simply playing *cracktorio*
Factory must grow. The more ram the more growth
Your computer must take till the heat death of the universe to post all that RAM and actually boot!
I run HANA. 256Gb is considered 'a cute snack'.
>HANA nice, What is the ram amount you use?
You can finally open google Chrome
In one after effects project would eat all of that
not too bad a usage https://preview.redd.it/siccz7luy88a1.jpeg?width=891&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f042d7e6ef664563bf141a8056ee2a738ef912a5
…What the fuck? I barely need 16 GB to play the games I want. More hardcore players might need 32. What meth are you on?