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Just wondering - have any of you noticed much of a difference in your systems when going from 16GB of RAM to 32GB?
That could be it. Can you please share a link?I did add a chrome extension
Ah, no. Ranks are independent of DIMMs.
It doesn't matter if they're on separate DIMMs.
Not really true. Two DIMMs represent two separate electrical loads, with slightly different parasitic inductances / capacitances because they are on two different DIMM slots. Two ranks on one DIMM look much more like a single electrical load to the memory controller line drivers. Whether this matters depends on the robustness of the memory controller. (For instance, it likely wouldn't matter to a pre-12th-gen Intel CPU; it most certainly will matter to a Zen 1 CPU.)
That could be it. Can you please share a link?
Excellent deal!480 GB PNY SSD that I got at walmart about a year ago for $15.
$ free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 31Gi 2.1Gi 26Gi 89Mi 2.5Gi 28Gi
Swap: 4.0Gi 0B 4.0Gi
So Linux (or your particular distro) doesn't pre-cache OS components in RAM for faster access.but that is with only one tab in Firefox and three terminals ...Code:$ free -h total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 31Gi 2.1Gi 26Gi 89Mi 2.5Gi 28Gi Swap: 4.0Gi 0B 4.0Gi
[A]$ free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 15G 7.4G 442M 255M 7.7G 7.6G
Swap: 4.0G 1.3G 2.7G
[B]$ free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 62G 6.2G 48G 137M 8.5G 55G
Swap: 4.0G 0B 4.0G
For your particular use case, it doesn't make sense to upgrade unless you are running some CPU intensive workload that makes you wait too long. But you should still keep an emergency plan ready in case you suddenly need to buy a new system due to some accident or any other calamity out of your control. For me, here's my emergency plan:I keep wondering, with 7,000 MB/s NVME drives or PCIE v.4.0 and DDR5 RAM, would it make much difference?