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Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts (www.tomshardware.com)
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"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?"

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[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

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?

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago

For normal use like that 16GB is generally just fine. Some games can use enough that you'll need to close Firefox and other RAM hungry programs though.

As far as needing more than that, people who do heavy design work or edit videos and that kind of thing generally do. For example 32GB running Fusion in Davinci Resolve can be a bit limiting sometimes with higher resolution or 10 bit footage.

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