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this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2026
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Every PC gamer in my circle did an emergency purchase of a new PC this year because as bad as it's now, we all know it's going to get a hell of a lot worse and probably won't go down in at least 4 years if ever. Even my broke ass bought a 5080 and a 5800X3D (because I had 96GB DDR4 RAM already). Even my wife agreed better do it now than having to buy during peak AI price stupidity.
What does one use that much DDR for?
Virtualization work, also helps a with memory leaks with games occasionally. I've had 64GB RAM since 2011 with the x79 boards and never went below that quantity. RAM was cheap so why not.
Web browser tabs.
(I only have 64GB, but that's my answer. Firefox still eventually runs out of memory and crashes, BTW. Not blaming the browser itself; I think there's a memory leak in the JS in some of the tabs I keep open.)
Interesting. I use tons of bookmarks and close tabs/firefox frequently so I often forget that web browsers are capable of using that much memory.