Everywhere you look, RAM prices are skyrocketing

“I’ve been saving for months to get the Corsair Dominator 64GB CL30 kit,” one beleagured PC builder wrote on Reddit. “It was about $280 when I looked,” said u/RaidriarT, “Fast forward today on PCPartPicker, they want $547 for the same kit? A nearly 100% increase in a couple months?”

  • utopiah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    4 hours ago

    Genuine question here, for a “normal” computer user, say somebody who :

    • browses the Web
    • listens to music, play videos, etc
    • sometimes plays video games, even 2025 AAAs and already has a GPU relatively recent and midrange, say something from e.g. 2020
    • even codes something of a normal size, let’s say up to Firefox size (which is huge)

    … which task does require more than say 32Go?

    • Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      31·
      2 hours ago

      If by normal you average, they don’t even really need 16gb.
      Creative work can gobble up ram, heavy ass multitasking does as well.
      So it’s more in the digitally productive professional or hobbyist cases where you need such amounts as a person.

      For development high amounts of rams can be useful for all sorts of stuff, it’s not just compiling, but also testing, though 32 is often enough.