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[–] 4 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

Depends on what you wanna use it for. If you wanna host a bunch of services, do scientific computing, or play modded video games with really bad memory leaks and memory optimization, perhaps?

The problem is memory is expensive because fabs have switched to making HBM3 and EEC LPDDRX5 (soldered memory, like what's in a phone and some laptops). So even when the crash happens, we won't get a mass sell-off of useful consumer hardware. Likewise, the "GPUs" don't even have video outputs.

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  • [–] 2 points 17 hours ago

    I'm just a casual user today, I used to stress my computers to the limit, but not anymore.
    So I most definitely would make very poor use of maxing my RAM.

    Back in the day I loaded DVD 's into virtual drives in RAM, to make games load faster.
    For some reason the Linux kernel works best with a swap disk, so I had that in RAM too, and of course temporary files.

    These things are of course banal although they were extremely efficient back in the day, and this was a thing I learned already back in the 80's where the Amiga made similar things possible.
    Today with fast SSD drives I don't feel the need, and to be honest I already have more RAM than I need. And since I don't program anymore either, which I always found interesting to explore the capabilities of new hardware, I have become an "average" user. 😳

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