>inherit a ~5 year old midrange laptop
>turn it into a desktop replacement
>it's not bad for free
>decent enough CPU for normal tasks
>has an extra SSD slot, mitebcool.jpeg
>redo thermal paste, set up Windows 11 from scratch
>bottlenecked big time by single channel 8GB RAM, Task Manager shows a lot of swap going on. and there is a second slot.
>upgrade to 32 or 64?
>go with 64 because it goes takes a DDR4 SODIMM with unusual timings not commonly available type...if I want to upgrade it further later down the line and the motherboard is autistic, 64 might not be available any more, the type it wants is already quite rare (can only find 3 models)...plus I don't want to have it open it up again, ever, if I don't have to
>reason that I'm saving time and money ultimately because everything is just gonna keep getting bloatier and bloatier, all programs, all websites, not to mention Wangblows, smarter just to max out now
>decide to daily drive it for a while and test to see just how much 64 can hold
>i change my web browsing habits to that of an ADHD boomer/zoomer
>just non stop tab hoarding, i dont close any tabs, open as many tabs as I want, never closing them, including youtube video pages
>this is difficult for me, very unnatural, but I want to see how far 64 will go
>Firefox on Windows 11 btw
>a couple of weeks into it check how full the RAM is
>cycle through each tab to make sure they are all open
>also have a couple of other programs open (a couple of docs in LibreOffice, a movie in VLC, another in MPC-HC
>...I'm literally not even hitting 20GB RAM. Currently at 17, highest I saw it was 18.something

I legit did not expect it to stretch so far. I feel kinda dumb for wasting that money, could have spent it on food. Also autistic so feel bad that 44 gigs are going to waste. There are people out there begging for more RAM, their shitty computers are in pain, swapping to disk like crazy, and here I am, hogging all the RAM. Feels weird man.

Change your browser settings dumbass. Go to about:config.

DDR4 is (was?) pretty cheap. Might be the best time ever to splurge on it.

>my only use for a computer is the browser.
found the problem, you arent even doing anything with a computer.

>>105725971 (OP)
64gb is just the right amount of based

I need 64GB Vram

>>105727126
64gb vram is just the right amount of gigabased

>>105725971 (OP)
Use cases for 64GB ram on home PCs are setting up a virtual homelab with several VMs running simultaneously, and some heavily modded video games that can reach 32+ GB ram usage. I do both these things so 64GB was a good investment for me.

If all you do on your PC is web browsing then yeah, 64GB is retarded.

>>105725971 (OP)
You don't actually use your computer for work
It's just a way to access a browser
You'd have been fine with a chromebook or on another linux distro if win11 was slow as shit on 8GB

>normalfagget usage
what do you expect