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My new system: Ryzen 7950X, RX 7900XTX, 64gb RAM, 2x2tb 980 pro, 1x1tb 990 pro (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Perroboc to c/pcmasterrace
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And I installed Linux. And it’s awesome.

EDIT: yes, the GPU was a bit tilted. Fixed it now!

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[–] BallShapedMan 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thank you, I wondered. I keep thinking I need to upgrade to 32GB from 16 but have get to run into a need other than the prices are pretty cheap these days

[–] Perroboc 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you want to upgrade, get better speeds. AM5 Expo settings are quite stable nowadays, and the less RAM you have, the faster a cold boot is.

IMHO 16gb @ 8000 > 32gb @ 6000. I’m thinking of doing this in the future.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not that sure about 16gb for gaming nowadays. Games are starting to explode in ram and vram usage. With windows on the side and plenty of other apps in the background, I was pretty close to the limit while running a vm with 16gb of memory on a 32gb ram setup, while running warframe (The game was using 5-5.5gb of memory).

Tho running Linux, can reduce that memory usage.

[–] Perroboc 2 points 1 year ago

I agree. 16 is enough, but 32 is safe. And 64 is too much!

[–] BallShapedMan 1 points 1 year ago

I'll consider that, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't really need to upgrade. But for a new pc, 32gb is advised for anything gaming.

For other things like content creation or work with the computer other than basic computing, I don't really know. It would change depending on what someone needs to so with the computer.

[–] BallShapedMan 2 points 1 year ago

I haven't run into issues on my gaming rig with 16. If I was building new I'd get 32 for sure. But my old 10700k and 4090 seem to do just fine on 16. Even when running unoptimized emulation like early days with ToTK I hardly used more than 12.

I feel those days are ending soon though and will need more in the next year or so.