Thread 107112817

Do you think 16GB RAM is still enough in the year of the lord 2025

the minimum, since many browser tabs take GB each, deepseek quickly climbs to 2GB

Depends.
Bare minimum for anyone working on Windows 11. Teams + office + browser will eat up >8GiB easily. Heck, I've seen it eat almost 12GiB on some users machines that I maintain on a customer office.
For light use, 8GiB should still be fine, but I wouldn't run it with windows. If it is a terminal that only needs to have a browser or lightweight system, I would do this with either linux or a very optimized version of Linux.

I worked on a company that used a few precision scales connected to serial port and ran software that connected directly to a server. The PCs were AIOs from HP running openSUSE 13.2. Good times. It ran perfectly in 8GiB ~7 years ago or so, and they're probably still using it.

>>107112817 (OP)
No, but it will have to do until RAM prices come back to Earth

>>107112817 (OP)
No.
128Gb is the minimum to play Ai mine sweeper
Check out the RAM prices compared to 2 years ago, have fun ranting, anon.

>>107112817 (OP)
Most of the retards on this site insist on keeping 40 or 50 tabs open on their browser which they'll probably never look at.

>>107112897
>zoomer issue
No, we just love Ai
So at least 64Gb is a sane setup.

>>107112897
# of tabs open means fuck all if you don't use them.
Modern browsers deactivate the tabs not open. I keep ~50 tabs open on my home PC, running Brave, and I have 3 browsers on my work laptop: Firefox, Chrome and Edge. I use less RAM on my work laptop because of the content on them, even though I have more tabs overall between all three browsers.
Check the browser's task manager, it usually tells you what tab is hoarding RAM.

>>107112887
this

I am fine with a Haswell CPU and 16GB of RAM, I am using a ZRAM disk to "download more RAM" though.
So the answer is yes, you can get by without major issue, even if you leave all your tabs open all the time.

I'm fine with 16gb ram because I keep 5 tabs open at a maximum,don't give two shits about AI slop or about playing the latest AAA humilitation rituals

>>107112979
See >>107112918
# of tabs mean fuck all in modern browsers. Unused tabs usually get deactivated and only use enough RAM to display them on the tab bar.

>>107112979
I routinely have over 100 tabs on 16gb.

>>107112817 (OP)
i have 20GB of DDR4 in my dual core shitty laptop dude ram is cheap

>>107113341
Not anymore.

>>107112897
>50 open
+100 open and +1000 unloaded.
>needs to remember something
>opens 100 extra tabs
If you can do that then go back go 1985

>>107113341
Just a week ago I wanted 32gb of ddr4 for my laptop that had 8gb, looked up prices and noped out. Got a secondhand second 8gb stick instead on ebay, not even a matching brand but everything else matched, works fine. 20 bucks, should have been like 12.

Look up the current prices.

>>107112817 (OP)
I think 8GB is a more sane and safe option.
I'm always wary of getting a virus on my computer. By maintaining a low amount of RAM, any hypothetical virus I would catch by accident wouldn't be able to work properly because it would have been programmed to work in a large RAM environment like a 16GB RAM or a 32GB RAM PC. This way my PC and all my data stays safe because the virus wouldn't be able to function proprely, not accounting for marginal individuals like me who use outdated technology out of a mix of paranoia and laziness. Why do you people need all that RAM for anyway? Modern video games are all pretty bad, and I never have more than 30 chrome tabs open at a time.

>107113560
Baits used to be believable

>>107112817 (OP)
It's fine if you have an older pc, not fine if you're building one now.

x200 maxes out at 8GB, why do I need 16GB?

>>107112817 (OP)
Depends.
On linux, for general purpose and gaming, yes.
Windows 10/11? No.
But for Adobe After Effects? No.
Google Chrome and Better Discord? Fuck no. I have 386GB of ram and it's still not enough.

>>107113419
You had a decade to max out your ram and now when prices went up a bit you are complaining. Just how retarded can you be?

>>107112887
>He thinks it's coming back down

>>107112887
Only when after the dollar dies.

>>107112887
Only after the dollar dies.

>>107115282
BRICS working on it

They're still selling laptops with 4gb. I don't understand why

>>107112817 (OP)
in 2025 AD, 16GB is all you can hope for.

hell no, i have 256gb of ram and its still not enough

>>107112840
I understand Office, but do people still use Teams? I thought everyone moved to Slack or Zoom.

>>107112817 (OP)
All the smart people could see the price increases over the horizon and upgrade to 64 gb minimum by last summer at the latest. If you're a ramlet, you probably deserve it.

>>107112817 (OP)
The last time I had a machine with 16GB of RAM was... 2016? The lowest I would go these days is 32GB and even then only on a laptop.

>>107112817 (OP)
4 is still enough unless you are a gaymer

Unless you're running vms and using ram disks 16gb is enough, but yeah more is better, I still use a laptop with 4gb of ram, it's comfy because you have to optimize everything

>>107112817 (OP)
With as fucked up as prices are, no one here has a fuckin choice... Fuck AI niggers.

>>107116438
Teams is extremely popular.

It's enough for me but I don't play slop/western games or have hundreds of tabs open. I peak around 70 - 80% usage and even that's rare. In hindsight, I probably should had future-proofed to 32GB now prices are retarded.

>>107112839
>AI Sloppa
Not my fucking problem.

lmao. RAM prices really have skyrocketed. Used to be one of the cheaper components you didn't worry about. Just buy 2x16gb and be done with it.

2GB chad here. I can browse /g/ and watch YouTube and still have 1GB to spare.

i just ordered 128 gb of RAM to fill half the slots on my mobo because the CPU cooler will make them inaccessible, and eventually i'll get another 128 gb to fill the other half

>>107117135
when programs are actually OPTIMIZED you really don't need more than 2GB
FACTS
OOP SHITLETS BTFO

>>107112817 (OP)
Yes. If you don't think it's enough then you need to download more RAM with zram.

>>107114153
>went up a bit

A bit? They fucking doubled and sometimes more. I got the laptop a week ago. I already invested in the battery, an ssd, cooler pad, couldn't afford the ram, 16gb is enough but I wanted 32.

>>107116618
4 is enough.
8 is still okay.
16 is good.
32 is Great.

Anything above that is usually literal waste but 99% of people who buy more than that don't understand how ram works.

>>107116618
I always hit 20+ GB usage daily
I have 32 GB installed

no, planinng on getting 96GB for my desktop
t. average qubesos enjoyer

16 for normies
32 for gamers / devs
64 for gamers and devs with money

>>107112817 (OP)
not an issue. I use arch btw.

i use 1gig of ram