I am happy I could still get it in red 😋
Original RAM was Ballistix Sport LT 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR4 2400 MT/s (PC4-19200), while my new sticks are TeamGroup T-FORCE VULCAN Z 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 3600MHz CL18.
I just went back looking at pcpartpicker list from my 2017/18. Paid $175 for 16GB of Corsair lpx modules, so glad prices aren’t like that any more
Original RAM was $150CAD before taxes, with tax $172.49CAD. My New RAM was $80 with tax. Love me a good sale.
When I built my 5930K system, I paid about 400 bucks for 16 GB of DDR 4. Years later when DDR 4 was finally mainstream, I was able to upgrade to 32 GB for a bit over $100.
Exactly the same for me with my 5820K system! Just upgraded to a 7900X 10 years later, and only because of failing RAM and it was CPU-bottlenecked in a few games.
Enjoy being able to run 3 extra chrome tabs!
2019 I built a new rig, 32GB to start. A little video editing and virtual machines running various networking OSs for dicking around and in 2022 I got another 32 🤣.
Heck yeah. DRAM prices are pretty good these days. I think many decent deals filter through to !bapcsalescanada@lemmy.ca
Damn, you can link to channels like that? Nice.
Yeah, it’s pretty sweet and equivalent to r/ on the other site. The part after the @ symbol makes it usable for those not on our home and native Lemmy server.
I haven’t seen that feature yet, thanks for pointing it out :)
Hmm, why is it telling me that that channel is empty when I follow the link in Voyager?
In your case, if you only see a couple posts, you likely have bot posts disabled. Or if there are none, you could have blocked it earlier on, check your blocklist on the Settings page and click “Blocks” as you might have blocked it to clear spam on the local feed.
If you still see none at all, it might be a Voyager issue (a length limit edge case possibly?)
For people accessing it outside of lemmy.ca, it may be because no one on your instance has subscribed to it yet, so it’s not federating the posts.
Looks like I had the community blocked and now I remembered why.
Need to keep an eye on that when/if I upgrade.
I gotta do this. I can’t believe one terrabyte is feeling small on the disk to.
Heh, I just upgraded my NAS to 18TB total storage. Which sounds like a large number but it’d go very fast if I were storing 4k video.
I’m at 60tb and I’m still eyeing up sales on 16tb drives. I’ve got a media hoarding problem but if the internet goes completely down y’all can come to my place for a movie night.
Count me in, Meats ❤️
Decrease the bit rate to like 200 kbps. Might look a bit blocky though.
Personally I think 1080p is good enough for me, usually.
That’s good. It really depends, for me personally.
Usually I get really good shows and movies with a lot of graphical details and special effects or other cool stuff, in 4K. But dramas and shit with just people are fine in 1080p.
Examples: 3 Body Problem, The Mandalorian, 4K. After Life (with Ricky Gervais), or Family Guy or other cartoons, 1080p.
Makes sense. For me it depends on whether I’m going to watch something on a monitor or a TV…a movie I’m planning to watch on my TV I may very well go for the 4k version. But 4k file sizes are high enough that I’ll definitely think about whether 1080p is good enough.
Samesies 😊
I’ve 3tb or 4 total SSD space and I still run out of room with my games. Also have a 1tb portable hardrive that’s almost always full too. Shits got big in size.
Im getting so old. I remember when we would put a notch on the other side of our floppy disk to get a few more kilobytes and we like it. We loved it!
That’s why I got around 20 TB in my gaming PC. 8 TB is reserved for the media.
I can tell it has more RAM in it because it is physically larger.
I’m a little similar to you. I paid like $200 for 16GB RAM sometime around 2017. I upgraded to 32GB a few months ago. For the same model and amount of RAM, it was $40. Lol. It was an upgrade I didn’t feel any pain over.
You’re making me wish Ballistix still made ram for the consumer market. Their sticks could often run much higher numbers than the “safe” xmp profile put on them.
I went 128GiB RAM on my latest build… custom water loop, 6800xt water-cooled GPU, 7900x water-cooled CPU.
But hey, I deserved it. The PC I was replacing was built in 2014 with 2013 parts (later upgraded to eBay 3770 / 1060 6GiB. It’s still a daily driver ten years later, capable of 90% of modern games, 100% of the games I play!
A PC every ten years? Not bad. Hopefully this one lasts til 2033 :-)
Actually this was for an upgrade on my current PC from 2017. I’ve been running 16GB since my last build.
I had great luck buying used PC parts from eBay, I think I paid like $40 for my 3770. Will definitely upgrade again from eBay in the future! Considering swapping out my old Mobo and getting another used CPU from the 2020ish era. Old hardware can be revived over and over and over… and I intend to make it last til somethint pops!
Something to consider if you have a niche upgrade, used parts.
That’s awesome to see an 8 year old PC still getting attention. My old PC has 32GiB RAM but that’s just because it is the max that old Mobo supports.
I’d love to upgrade my mobo, I’ve an i7-11700 and it’s still capable of playing modern games on high on at least 60 and I don’t mind lowering things to medium anyway if need be. But the mobos dated and I’ve a 6800xt and I’d like to use rebar or whatever the amd things called that you can use when your CPU and GPU are both amd.
I went 32GB on my early 2020 build, and I didn’t regret it once ever since. I still have a second 2x16GB set in my pricing watchlist just in case there’s a good sale and I feel fancy lol. It’s honestly just nice not having to think about it at all.
I don’t think I’ve run into any games that actually demanded 32GB of RAM. Video editing and maybe coding, but not games… for now.
Oh, same. I run a bunch of Docker services and VMs and stuff for work, so the extra RAM lets me dedicate some memory to it without eating at my day to day apps. Also gets rid of the Electron junk problem by brute forcing it lol. But for gaming specifically, as far as I’m concerned, it’s GPU>CPU>RAM in order of importance - as long as you’re not bottlenecked by the latter, prioritize putting money in the former.
I like to play DCS, a flight sim that is basically also a memory leaking machine because old spaghetti code so I use mine for sure.
With that said in other progeams/games it’s awesome to have so much overhead.
I have a whole seperate PC for my internet browsing and I regularly exceed 16 gigs of ram on that bad boy. I make that 8th gen i5 scream.
I was in the same thought process and then I started exploring stable diffusion and LLMs because I sprung for a 4090 and now I wished I got 64gb instead.
Yeah AI will do that.
I built a computer in 2013 with lga1150, gtx970, i7-4770. DDR3-2400, 16gb. Plenty of space for expandibility. Ten years later, everything’s obsolete and I’m lucky to find DDR3 ram. I built the computer to be upgrade-capable and ended up only able to upgrade the ram and get a new ssd.
Wow almost sounds like my first rig, though swap the intel with an AMD. The rig this RAM is for is my 2nd PC, since my Motherboard was compatible with exactly one other CPU, and it’s still going strong despite being from 2017.
Wait, ddr4 is 10 years old now? I should probably update my ddr3 builds…
Been using 16GB of RAM since ddr3. Kept using it since it was more than enough, now I’ve finally exceeded it.
And what use would “the16bitgamer” have for them? XD
YouTube video making. Id say 3D modeling but freecad doesn’t use that much ram… yet.
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