about right yeah, my brother recently asked me about a PC build for civil 3D and.... it needs 32GB of ram
On Linux, there’s a thing called a swap partition; it’s a small portion of the harddrive that’s been set aside for the system to use in a way like RAM. The mechanics of this involve writing memory pages to the swap partition as they go out of immediate use and reading them back once they’re called for by applications. This obviously involves a pretty significant speed penalty, but it is a way to essentially expand the memory limits of your computer. Some modern distros support using a swap file, rather than a partition, which can grow and shrink as needed by the system.about right yeah, my brother recently asked me about a PC build for civil 3D and.... it needs 32GB of ram
and most prices here are insanely expensive, doing a raw conversion it's 2000$ for 16GB without a gpu, i was thinking on telling him to buy a i7-12700F dell and be done with it but he would have zero possibility of upgwading in case a update uppens the system requirements.
Should be ReadyBoost, just stick a usb 3.0 or higher drive and in the preferences go to the ReadyBoost tab. Though knowing Microjeet it might be broken now
Looking around a bit, that appears to be something else. The closest thing to what I’m talking about seems to be called the Pagefile. I found this guide from Tom’s Hardware about how to expand it.
Windows uses a pagefile that is active by default. It resides on the system partition and is usually the first thing I deactivate after a fresh install.
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 124Gi 46Gi 12Gi 391Mi 66Gi 78Gi
Swap: 59Gi 21Gi 38GiA sensible choice when RAM was cheap and plentiful.
Being a terminal laptop and ewaste enjoyer, I’m always astounded at the amount of memory some people have in their systems. I don’t think I’ve ever owned a computer with more than 16 gbs of RAM. What do you use it for? Running 5 AAA games at once? A council of LLMs to argue with each other and advise you? Opening 12 tabs in Chrome? Incredible.
13 tabs in Brave.
If there's a fat German guy on the team mysteriously in the future. Nobody reveal it's me. There likely won't be. It's most likely just going to be jeets and women like always. But if there is, pretend you don't know who.
When DDR4 was obtainable for maybe $1.50-$2.00/GB (or less if used/open box, picked up 4x16GB for ~$70), it was trivial to have 32-128 GB.
I wonder if this is actually why ram is so expensive now. We're about to get a new set and there's market speculation about the old rams' continued supply. AI companies clearly aren't the reason as the ram is still for sale on most sites. It's not scalpers either as its on Amazons main sellers, not some retard on Ebay. Plus AI companies want HBMRam, not DDR Ram, so it makes 0 sense why they'd be responsible. So I bet it's actually about wonders of the supply of old ram continuing to be made, rather than what everyone else has been yapping about.
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When I was troubleshooting my 5090, I tried undervolting as part of that whole rigamarole. Besides sometimes fixing my problem, it also did a good job at tamping down that classic ASUS coil whine. The go-to software for that is MSI Afterburner, which I haven't used with an AMD card. I think Adrenalin can do that same kinda stuff. Not sure how positively RX 6000s respond to undervolting, but it couldn't hurt to try.
Just today, I have upgraded an old system that wasn't properly usable anymore due to lack of RAM (it had 4 GiB) to 16. DDR3-2400 I got for €40, plus an SSD for €10.
I have 64GB of RAM because anything I don't need can be used to cache file access, and when I bought the 64 GB kit it was around $200.
