How much is "enough" nowadays Sup Forums?

How much is "enough" nowadays Sup Forums?

1tb

However much you need to comfortably perform the tasks you do

4GB should be enough for anyone

>firefox, 20+ tabs open
>bloated DE
>file manager
>other programs running
>barely over a GiB
Probably 2 GB is fine unless you're a Sup Forumsideo gamer who uses Electron programs.

Here's your (You), famalam

4gb for just browsing the Web , 8-12gb for gaming

16GB, only poorfags go with less than that.

32GB. Maybe 64GB depending on what you are doing.

To do actual work, just 4
Im assuming you are using some Linux distro plus text editor plus browser with around 10 tabs

>not using chad 128GB RAM
how poor are you ?

>How much is "enough" nowadays Sup Forums?
There is no such thing

My Firefox alone uses 8gb

16GB for dev, 32GB+ for artists

>RAMlets
If you don't have 256 what are you even doing?

Why does ram price keep getting fucked? I paid $125 for 32gb of ram in q1 2013.

>grandmas facebook machine
3GB
>family Facebook/bills/amazon machine
4GB
>gaymer PC
12
>light workstation
16
>anything else
32+

...

I use around 12GB at the office with browsers, SQL studio, Visual Studio, some SAP instance and a bunch of other tools to crunch data. Just got myself a 16GB module installed in the X270 I use to work on all these tasks.

6GB is more than enough for anyone using Windows. Just close your fucking tabs when you're done with them.

If you use Linux or BSD you could easily get by with 4GB of RAM.

I have a machine with 4GB of RAM and I'm constantly running into issues with Win7 running out of memory. When it gets bad enough Win7 basically will just start closing programs that I'm using until it's satisfied.

My laptop has 8GB on it and it's better working from it but I think 12-16GB is where the happy spot will be.

16 on a desktop,
4 - 16 depending on the laptop and your use cases
3 - 4 on a phone

640k

6 for a meme machine, 12 for muh gayms, 16 for a workstation

Anons, should I build my PC now or wait for GDDR5 to be released?

Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM.

10GB
200 firefox tabs only uses half of it.

this pretty much

I usually use over 32 GB, so I got 64. I wanted 128 but RAM's expensive as hell atm and I couldn't justify it just for the luxury.

it should be. unfortunately everything's getting really bloated, especially web browsers, websites, and desktop environments

Real talk how much is decent for babies first server?
Gen8 microservers only allow up to 16gb's and that seems like trash if you want more than 2 VM's on it

Whatever maxes out your mobo. You some kind o moran?

Windows
Workstation: 16GB minimum.
Anything else: 8GB minimum.

4Gb for normal fags
8-16Gb for gamers and people who work on computer
16Gb+ waste of money

8GB DDR3 DUAL CHANNEL 665MHz

>640kb should be enough for everyone

12 MB? Great !

Wait for prices to go down, faggot bear.

that line comes from Microsoft

Don't diss IBM-chan

there is no evidence old Bill said it, actually.

Thats because it leaks like a bitch.
If not FF than one of the addons you are using.

This guy is a liar

pig reladed :--DDDD

With 16GiB on Windows 10 I can open 20+ tabs in Vivaldi (including heavily bloated sites), After Effect, Photoshop, Gimp, Ableton Live, a VM with WinXP on Hyper-V, RawTherapee editing 24MP RAW, World of tank and few smaller other programs (done yesterday).
So for a normal use, I guess 4gb is enough, 8 is fine.

ty user

with 180 tabs my firefox uses just above 2GB
chrome gets that high even with just 20 tabs

>I'll buy more later
Get at least 8GB

>I need a decent but moderate amount of RAM as I am gaming and the like
12GB

>I have disposable income and always need the meme amount
16GB

>I WANT A SERVER
32GB or more

>ITT: Windows kiddies that have never seen their RAM under half of usage
No matter how much RAM you install, it wont cure brainletness

I find 16GB enough for most things I generally do on my machine, and 32GB a nice-to-have that is definitely enough no matter what silliness I get up to and no matter how much virtualization shit I need to do.

Not sure if 16GB meme thread in a nutshell :/

I can have running
Win 10
Chrome streaming Twitch at 1080p on right screen
4-6 chrome tabs open on main screen
Spotify
VM running windows 7

Open all at the same time and I still have spare with my 4gb ram

>using Windows 10
>being this retarded

Depends on what you want the server for. My first was just an out of commission desktop P2 400MHz 512MB with OpenSUSE 10, ran a LAMP stack with PHPBB for a couple dozen people fine. These days I'd use a Pi.

For playing with Docker I'd say 4GB. Docker isn't that much overhead.

If you want to run full blown Windows 10 VMs I'd say 16-32GB.

>enough

I have uBlock, some google translations addon and that's about it.

Nope

How the fuck? I probably have like 100 tabs.
Windows or Linux? Any addons?

We need moar ads!!!!!! :D And more complicated ways of loading ads so adblockers can't win :DDDDDDDDDDDDD

Fuck the direction of software lately. And too bad hardware appears to be advancing in a logarithmic fashion.

Stop sounding so reasonable instead of just giving me an arbitrary number

At least 8, i was doing research and also some data analysis and I noticed the 4gb limitation.

4gb for people who barely know how to use computers
8gb for everyday people
16gb for doing any work or gaming
32gb+ for doing adobe crap

Server - 8GB (pretty snappy, only file/media server for me and my wife)
Desktop - 32GB (board supported it so said why not)
Encoding workstation -2GB (all it does is crunch video, Win XP is os)
Semi retro Gaming PC - 2GB (Ram cost me $200 back in the day)
Wife's Netbook - 4GB (Seems snappy to me, just use for e-mail/internet)
My Laptop - 2GB (Internet/e-mail/office work, does ok)

6GB, so 8GB is optimal for the large majority. applies to laptops and desktops. As for android smartphones, 4GB is enough because they can't properly multitask and RAM is just for cache. 6GB for Sailfish and other GNU smartphones/handhelds.

Yeah give people that know nothing about tech really shitty hardware so they learn to hate technology and never want to learn about it.

Story about my friend:

In the past, her shitty 4gb i5 Macbook made her give up on trying to learn about computers due to it's garbage performance regardless of what she did.
Once I picked a decent laptop for her (2 in 1, i7 8550U, 16gb DDR4, 512GB SSD) she actually wanted to learn more about technology and how to use it to it's fullest extent.

32

16GB sounds perfectly reasonable.

32 isn't even enough tbqh

> 4GB + 2GB page file
minimum (normally with 3GB Windows x64 works just fine, but who uses odd combinations of memory sticks?)

> 8-16GB
pefrect for most people

> 32GB+
if you need multiple VM's and/or do any form of video manipulation for a living

>t. Fat Linux virgin

Depends on what the fuck you do. I have 8GB and do batch editing of large resolution scans. If the batch has more than 15 images, then my ram gets topped off. I don't know if I would be comfortable with just 16GB either.

If your RAM isn't being used, then it's being wasted.

up until last year I was fine with 512Mb. but now I use 1gb

64Eb

If you could store 1 bit in 1 silicon atom, 64 exabytes of memory would weigh over 4 tons, not even counting all the other components.

>weigh over 4 tons

The fuck? Simple math shows it'd weigh 0.0029847722154077113189 grams.

>enough
I've got 32 GB in my desktop and 16 GB in my laptop and 16 GB in my home server. I could probably get by with 16 GB in my desktop, but no less. The 16 GB in my server limits what I can use it for.

Of course.. if I were to buy a new computer with todays RAM prices then 4 GB would be enough because screw paying more for 8 GB than 16 GB cost not that long ago.

Right now on my - this - desktop computer:
> RAM: 14333MiB / 32160MiB
So 16 GB would be possible but not ideal..

>what are you even doing?
shitposting on Sup Forums

Yes, it's beyond ridiculous. Cellphones and GPUs are pushing demand beyond supply. I also suspect there's some price-fixing going on.

>GDDR5
That's been around so long it's on the verge of being replaced with GDDR6 so I'm not entirely sure what you're asking.

And it really was - for a while. Then we got 1MB and had to fool around with himem.sys to use the "high" memory above 640k.

I honestly wish people took "640kb should be enough for everyone" seriously as a coding standard. You had to care about memory allocation back when that was a limit. Today programmers pull in libraries willy nilly instead of writing 20 lines of code without a single thought to the amount of memory, often hundreds of megabytes, that library will eat.

this, anyone who says otherwise is an idiot and doesn't know how to use a computer well and keeps way too many things they don't need open at the same time or is not really using his computer as a desktop pc but for something else or is doing very specific stuff
the only exception is if you're into the latest trash Sup Forumsideo games with way too high requirements so you have to go for 8GB

What you do on your computer? If is just browsing and games 8gb is enough, if managing huge datasets, photoshop or video editing with terabyte files then you can go at least 64gb.

I'm on 4gb and just browsing is terrible. I have to RMA my memory kit because one stick doesn't work. So I'm waiting the carnival end here to send them.

I'm pretty sure ram is always being used to the maximum possible amount by a lot of tasks for better performance up until you're close to your max amount. So under a system with less RAM it will be much less than 14GB.
Also post all your processes currently running. There is no way you should be even close to needing 16 GB or not even 8GB for most stuff.

this. my 4gb surface 3 runs everything an adult would need

>Im on 4gb and just browsing is terrible
Learn how to use a computer you retard. You should be able to browse flawless even on 2GB, possibly even 1GB if everything is right. Currenly I'm only using 1.2GB out of my 4GB of ram with firefox open.

its not leakage. windows allocates idle memory to improve performance

Haha, good luck explaining Windows memory allocation optimizations to normies.

triggered

32 GiB
I'm quite messy and lazy with open programs and virtual machines. My 16 GiB were frequently 90% used

every single year one of the big manu's have some kind of "issue in the production center of our main manufacturing facility"

32 is still comfy enough but my main rig has 64.
32 on my laptop and older main rig that I now use for bed vidyas

wait what the fuck? I literally only have chrome opened with 7 tabs and its using 4gb out of 16
>windows 10

I bought 32GB of CL12 DDR4-2400mhz when DDR4 was still considered bleeding edge. Got the 4x8GB Corsair kit from Microcenter for $130. I didn't even have a DDR4 capable system at the time. Now they're sitting comfy with my R7-1700X. But for a new builder, 8GB is ABSOLUTELY the minimum unless the PC will be for literally nothing other than office and web browsing. 16GB is optimal if you have the budget. And remember. Ram quantity over ram speed if you're forced to choose for budget reasons.

On average I float between 12GB -17GB of ram used when gaming, while streaming, while a movie plays on my wnd monitor, with 25+ Firefox tabs open. I peak at around 25GB when doing all that, but keep the game minimized and am rendering video. More often than not I'll have 3-5 games paused and idling in the background. Just alt-tab in as it suits me.

8gb. 16gb if you have money

8gb general purpose 16gb gaming

I have 8 GB and I routinely get low memory messages when I have loads of Chrome tabs open.

If I built a PC now I'd go with 32GB.

Not if you want to play highly optimized games like PubG and LoL

What? I use 8GB on my Gayming rig and it works fine.

It SHOULD BE, but unfortunately everything is an unoptimized pile of shit these days. If you use 4GBs of RAM with 4GBs of swap and you regularly have to access it, it's probably better to just get an extra 4 gig stick instead, even if you're on an SSD. And if you intend to run a bloated game, a bloated web browser and something else that takes up 2+ gigs of RAM, you'll easily go beyond 10q

Exactly. That's why I take 4 hour showers. All that water is going to waste just sitting there!

why are you such a manchild then?

>If your RAM isn't being used by bloated "apps", then it's being wasted.

4gb should be enough, but faggot web browsers and modern webpages wouldn't know efficiency if they bumped into it.

8gb is pretty sufficient for most tasks though, exceptions being video editing.

Normie tasks (music, movies, web) - 4GB
Gaming - 8GB
Lite CAD & post-production (photoshop, illustrator, premier) - 8 / 16GB
3D CAD, compositing, video editing - 16GB / 32GB +

I would say 16GB is the minimum for video editing and compositing these days.

I never run out with 8GB and I play video games occasionally. If you have a brain disorder and never close tabs you might need more RAM.

It depends, average deep learning workloads, nothing too crazy, could easily use 1TB of ram.