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    [–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago (13 children)

    I remember building my gaming machine in 2008 and put 4GB (2x2) in, then RAM prices tanked 6 months later so I added another 4GB. I remember having lots of conversations where I was like "yeah, 8GB is over kill" but what I didn't expect is that it was such overkill that when I built my next machine in 2012, I still only put 8GB on it.

    It wasn't until 2019 that I built a machine and put 16GB in it. I ran on 8GB for over a decade. Pretty impressive for gaming.

    [–] vox@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

    I'm still using 8 for gaming and stuff
    (i built my pc in 2021 and don't see a huge reason to upgrade it yet except modded Minecraft/skyrim)

    [–] lemmyaccount01@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    I too have 8gb and I hate it ( although i do use a lot of browser tabs on second screen it just isnt enough if you wanna do something else on the side :prolly can even do with 4 if I really limited myself and hated every second of it but even 8 isn't good enough

    [–] vox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    8 is enough if you're not multitasking too much
    wanna play a game? close absolutely everything except maybe discord (if you need it), but keep it in the tray
    wanna look sth up while playing? don't forget to close the browser afterwards

    [–] lemmyaccount01@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

    yeah I agree thats why i said i hate every second of it ( coz without movies or second screen browser everything gets really boring even the most engaging games ( ofc any newer game is out of the question )

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