How much RAM does your primary home desktop have?
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tsupersonic
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32GB for mine (it was under $90 for 16GB 3200 DDR4, why wouldn't I?). 12GB in the GF's (upgraded from 6GB <2yrs ago).
fleshconsumed
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Had 64, but one dimm was damaged when my water cooler leaked. Too cheap to replace it.
And 32 is more than sufficient !!
And 32 is more than sufficient !!
BonzaiDuck
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The unit with the most memory of 20GB = 2x8GB + 2x2GB is not the computer for which I'd rather have that memory.
But I don't think they make 2x2 kits for DDR4. My best bet is to simply double my memory size to 32GB with purchase of an identical kit. Hopefully, that will be almost as good as having a 2x16GB kit, except for a chance I could run the latter at command-rate = 1.
The 2x16 kit likely costs north of $200. the 2x8GB is probably close to $120+. These are TridentZ DDR4-3200 1.35V 14-14-14.
What I discovered was that my caching strategy needs less RAM on the faster DDR4 and Skylake i7-K processor. The benchmark scores are ridiculous. The system trains itself over some period of time to speed up just about every application I could hope to use in a week's time. The Windows Hibernate feature saves the contents of the RAM cache, so the hit rate for the boot drive and the program drive continue to simply grow. For instance the hit-rate for my boot-system drive is about 65% now, and hit-rate for the program HDD drive's SSD + RAM cache is about 98%.
So I can't make up my mind what to do. and if I choose to do it, it has a priority that could delay it several months or longer.
But I don't think they make 2x2 kits for DDR4. My best bet is to simply double my memory size to 32GB with purchase of an identical kit. Hopefully, that will be almost as good as having a 2x16GB kit, except for a chance I could run the latter at command-rate = 1.
The 2x16 kit likely costs north of $200. the 2x8GB is probably close to $120+. These are TridentZ DDR4-3200 1.35V 14-14-14.
What I discovered was that my caching strategy needs less RAM on the faster DDR4 and Skylake i7-K processor. The benchmark scores are ridiculous. The system trains itself over some period of time to speed up just about every application I could hope to use in a week's time. The Windows Hibernate feature saves the contents of the RAM cache, so the hit rate for the boot drive and the program drive continue to simply grow. For instance the hit-rate for my boot-system drive is about 65% now, and hit-rate for the program HDD drive's SSD + RAM cache is about 98%.
So I can't make up my mind what to do. and if I choose to do it, it has a priority that could delay it several months or longer.
PliotronX
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That's pretty awesome, my main desktop just has 16GB, NAS/HTPC 8GB and Hyper-V host 20GB.
The machine itself has 64GB, with 32GB each for the linux host and Win10 guest VM.
I don't remember if X99 limited me to 64GB or I just thought that 128GB would be wasted over the lifetime of the machine.
I don't remember if X99 limited me to 64GB or I just thought that 128GB would be wasted over the lifetime of the machine.
jimbob200521
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32GiB. As Skylake platform it has the 64GiB option. (Not all do though. For example Dell SFF desktops, which have Skylake, have motherboard that has room for only 32GiB).
There are logically only two amounts of RAM: (1) not enough and (2) enough. The line between those classes depends on circumstances and is likely to change over time.
There are logically only two amounts of RAM: (1) not enough and (2) enough. The line between those classes depends on circumstances and is likely to change over time.
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