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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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[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Do I just take the plunge and spend €1800 on 128GB of 6000MT CL40 RAM?

Even if your DIMMs are speced for high data rates, you may not be able to achieve it with a full 128GB with the current crop of processors if you're using slotted DIMMs rather than soldered memory.

[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I saw something about that, that they struggle with large memory sticks, does it slow down overall performance?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well, it's slower than what one could theoretically achieve if you could run that much at that rate. I believe that the MT rating is per stick and the memory is used interleaved, so it's not that you put in 128GB and the overall throughput spanning all sticks drops, but rather that you won't get the throughput that the more-expensive memory is rated for.

I have a Framework Desktop that's running 128GB of soldered memory at 8000 MT/s. In contrast, my desktop can only manage 3600 MT/s on 128 GB of slotted DIMMs.

$ sudo dmidecode -t memory|grep Speed
	Speed: 4800 MT/s
	Configured Memory Speed: 3600 MT/s
[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago

Very interesting, thank you!