My PC 10 years old this month and I really need an upgrade, I have a newer GPU so only need the rest of the fucking owl.
The biggest issue of course is the RAM PRICE, Do I just take the plunge and spend €1800 on 128GB of 6000MT CL40 RAM? Or do I pay more/gb for 64GB of faster RAM?
I’m buying to last me another 10 years preferably. I’ll probably go for the latest top of the line AMD CPU and the best mobo/psu I can get.
I don’t really have a fixed budget but I’m trying not to spend the next 6+mo worth of money on an upgrade.
Any advice?
Edit:
I use it for work, I work in tech, I run a lot of memory heavy stuff, I use it for CAD, dev, gaming, etc. I’m constantly running at 90% ram utilisation on my 32gb ram. I’ll copy what I said below:
I’m sitting at around 90% utilisation constantly on 32 and FF keeps crashing because I’m out of memory.
I work in the tech field, so it’s sometimes docker, lots of CAD, games (often with said cad program and browser in the background)
Current specs: i7 7700k, 32GB DDR4, 2080TI
What are you doing on a 20 year old PC that would necessitate 128GB of memory on the new one? 32GB should be sufficient when it comes to ram for most users. 64GB max. Even for the next 10 years.
I’m sitting at around 90% utilisation constantly on 32 and FF keeps crashing because I’m out of memory.
I work in the tech field, so it’s sometimes docker, lots of CAD, games (often with said cad program and browser in the background)
Edit: just realised I typoed, it’s 10 years, not 20, sorry.
Maybe just not run everything at once? If you’re gaming then you’re not working and you can shut down Docker and CAD. Or just get a Steam Machine. Way cheaper than trying to buy 128GB RAM.
You may want to check if that’s 90% of active utilization or things just holding onto the memory “just in case”. If your running CAD, gaming, and have containers actively running at the same time, then yeah 32GB may just be cutting it, but I would find it suprising that you’re actively using 90% frequently.
I guess more ram could mean not having to worry about spinning the containers up and down, but the only time I hit anywhere near 32GB is when doing heavy data workloads and those are times I’m not worried about running anything else.
I have one thing that drives my RAM usage up to about 45ish GB (64GB in my desktop) and that’s Star Citizen, and the whole reason why I installed 64GB.
Outside of that though, it is nice to have the headroom to basically do whatever I want, and multitask like crazy. But I rarely see my usage get over 25GB outside of SC.
For reference, this is on my desktop running Nobara
Impressive that you were able to do any CAD on a 20yr old PC. Then yeah you sound like you would benefit from more ram though even at the pace that CAD has blown up in size, I also work in teac with CAD (NX/Creo) 64GB is sufficient. Even over the next 10 years that should be enough. As far as Firefox and other browsers in general they’ve added so much bloat I’m not surprised it’s running out of memory. Good luck! And
Sorry, I made a typo in my original post, I meant to say 10 years, which changes things dramatically 😅
VS code and the rest of the BS JS applications really do chew through memory. Though the other day I realised that the Terraform linter in VS Code for Linux has a memory leak.
No lie there. Seems that devs have given up on optimization in software. Fear that trend will continue with all the vibe coding. Hell in 10 years you might need 512GB if that trend continues!!