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[Goofy]

My current desktop was bought in 2010. 8 gigs ram, GTX 460 vid card and an I5-2500k processor. I recall some people here making fun of me because I took four weeks picking out the parts and purchasing it. That's why I didn't just pull the trigger on any store-built POS or laptop. Just so I could make this post today

Read an interesting article on ram, processor and component interactions and why no regular home users need more than I've listed above. Think you need 16 or 32 gigs of ram? Your PC will never get close to maximizing 16 gigs of ram unless you work with large video files compressing them, multiple Photoshop projects, AutoCAD software, or play cutting edge games with an open Twitch stream where people are viewing and interacting with you as you play.

In fact most new games won't touch 16 gigs of ram, because games prefer to go to Vram on the videocard first, then go to the physical ram (in some cases). Windows still prefers creating it's own swapfile rather than max out the physical ram when gaming.

A ram test user opened 100 browser tabs, all different sites, his media player, Youtube video and started playing Grand Theft Auto Five which is now an older but still a CPU and Vram intensive game. He touched 10 gigs ram usage at times and said 3.6 of that was coming from the Windows OS itself, attempting to do background tasks while all of that other crap was going on.

If you're surfing the net and gaming at levels similar to mine (games circa 2010-2016), 8 gigs of ram will never slow you down. Of course the norm is now 16 but as that guy demonstrated, even demanding users rarely if ever use that much memory. There's more about how motherboard buses and processors bottleneck before that much ram can be used, but it's fairly technical.

Of course YOUR mileage may vary depending on what you do at home.

4 weeks my arse 4 months is probably closer to the truth


Talking about SSD's, i bought one for my desktop probably 6 or 7 years ago (Sansung 840 pro), cost a fuckload at the time (£170 for 256gb) but what a difference it made, everything just loads waaaaaay faster!

[Hal-9000]

4 weeks my arse 4 months is probably closer to the truth


Talking about SSD's, i bought one for my desktop probably 6 or 7 years ago (Sansung 840 pro), cost a fuckload at the time (£170 for 256gb) but what a difference it made, everything just loads waaaaaay faster!

Started in the beginning of the year and ordered in late February. Got it in March. I may have added a day or two because a girl needs time to pick out the color


Hey!

[Hal-9000]

Yeah, it's ridiculous to upgrade home systems, whether it be a desktop or a laptop, when you really don't need to. Especially now that SSD's have come way down in price compared to when I put mine in. I still use a 2 TB HDD for storage of media and whatnot, but the SSD runs all the software on the PC. Plus I maxed out the RAM from 4 to 16 gigs at the same time. My PC at home runs better than most of the newer ones we have here at the shop. All for around $100 to $150 depending on the SSD you get VS like you said, $1000 for a loaded new laptop.

Speaking of which, my laptop at home is equally as old and it was a dog when I bought it, low on specs but didn't need it for much. Eventually Windows was really slowing it down, so I just decided to turn it into a Linux laptop (running Linux Mint) and it works fine for what I use it for.



My 10 year old PC is a stock one from Dell and still going strong, total time to pick it out, about 20 minutes, so

You're a stock one from Dell

[Teh One Who Knocks]

You're a stock one from Dell

[Pony]

My current desktop was bought in 2010. 8 gigs ram, GTX 460 vid card and an I5-2500k processor.

Almost identical to my PC. Still purrs along just great. Currently using it as a media server in my entertainment center. It has a small SSD and two 2TB drives in it for movies, music and DVR storage.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Almost identical to my PC. Still purrs along just great. Currently using it as a media server in my entertainment center. It has a small SSD and two 2TB drives in it for movies, music and DVR storage.

I'd have to go back and check the specs on my PC. I know I didn't upgrade the GFX card, so it may be an integrated one in my rig. But I know I got at least an i5 chip, maybe even an i7 in it.

[DemonGeminiX]

Mine's an i7 920.

I was the 4 month guy. Hal kept making fun of me because of it.

I have 24 gigs of RAM and my resource usage usually hovers around 11 gigs. Never goes above 12. But I never lag either.

I've been thinking about building a new one because ASUS ended support for my motherboard a while ago, and the newer boards have a ton of cool features that I'll probably never use, but at least I'll be able to say, "Hey! My board can do this...".

But honestly, I have absolutely no issues with performance.

[DemonGeminiX]

Spartacus has declared.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Corey Booker announced his candidacy for president for 2020.

Spartacus has declared.

[DemonGeminiX]

Doesn't matter. This is probably the only amount of time we'll devote to discussing the bastard on this board any way.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

[Teh One Who Knocks]

[Teh One Who Knocks]

[DemonGeminiX]

I can't wait for all the dirt on him to come out of New Jersey and watch his campaign disappear over night.

[Hal-9000]

Mine's an i7 920.

I was the 4 month guy. Hal kept making fun of me because of it.

I have 24 gigs of RAM and my resource usage usually hovers around 11 gigs. Never goes above 12. But I never lag either.

I've been thinking about building a new one because ASUS ended support for my motherboard a while ago, and the newer boards have a ton of cool features that I'll probably never use, but at least I'll be able to say, "Hey! My board can do this...".

But honestly, I have absolutely no issues with performance.

Untrue! I was a sister in solidarity of support when the other guys LANCE were making fun of you.

Your resource use hovers around 11 gigs? May I ask what you're doing daily, Skynet?