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In this crazy market, do I just bite the bullet and upgrade? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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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

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[–] halfwaythere@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] halfwaythere@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

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!!