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RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously!
(hackaday.com)
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this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2026
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I've got a PC with an i7-4770k, 32GB of RAM, and RTX 3090 that plays games just fine (and does runs local LLMs just fine too).
Forget the RAM, don't you get CPU limited?
Every game I've tried works fine. Including resource hungry games like Cyberpunk 2077. It's my understanding that games are typically light on the CPU because they typically also try to target consoles which don't have very good CPUs. It is noticeably slower at some (highly parallelize-able) tasks, but is fine for any game I've tried. The CPU is probably roughly equivalent to the CPU in a Steam Deck.