This is why I bought the system with 16gb of RAM

"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel) 12/05/2016 at 08:06 • Filed to: None

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Because sometimes its 8 AM and you already have all this open. RAM usage currently sitting at ~11 GB.

*Some things hidden (E.X. what I’m actually working on in Solidworks and Eagle) because they are not ready to be shared. Also my window management is awful, I’m not actually working with either of the Word documents.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 12/05/2016 at 08:09

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I don’t think I’ve ever used more than about ten even with my PC in workhorse mode.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 12/05/2016 at 08:10

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To think I somehow managed to get by with 3GB of ram in my old laptop. This thing uses >3 at idle.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 12/05/2016 at 08:13

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My work PC only has 3. May as well be using my phone.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 12/05/2016 at 08:15

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I take it you don’t do anything resource intensive at work?

OPPOsaurus WRX > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 12/05/2016 at 08:16

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What is it that u do?

macanamera > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 12/05/2016 at 08:17

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I’ll get 128GB of RAM in my next one so I can use Chrome with like 4 tabs open

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > OPPOsaurus WRX 12/05/2016 at 08:18

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This is assorted school work. I’m studying electrical engineering and am currently working on stuff for an electric race car for a club I am part of.

BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest. > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 12/05/2016 at 08:20

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I’ve got 16 in mine, because Space Engineers will easily eat up about 12 by itself if you’re on a planet.

Jarrett - [BRZ Boi] > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 12/05/2016 at 08:21

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I just built a new one last week, and there was a 2x16gb kit on sale. I couldn’t resist!

random001 > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 12/05/2016 at 08:21

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I have the feels. Currently cranking 22 GB out of 32 on my work computer.

bob and john > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 12/05/2016 at 08:23

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yikes. I dont think i’ve ever maxxed out the 8 in mine.

I know for my next build I want dual GB cards and a triple (or quad) screen set up. (I have a thing for screen real estate)

spanfucker retire bitch > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 12/05/2016 at 08:24

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I’ve got 32GB in mine. Comes in handy when running a VM or two along with running other CAD applications or modern DX12 games.

facw > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 12/05/2016 at 08:28

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It’s a good thing to have, though I did get with another developer over whether we could use the “Standby” RAM:

Which of course we can, since that is just caching stuff since free RAM is wasted RAM (all RAM is just caching stuff, but the “Standby” is just proactive caching by the OS of things that might be useful.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 12/05/2016 at 08:33

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Nothing like CAD or CFD, but develop medical documentation software. The PCs can barely handle it.

Nibby > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 12/05/2016 at 08:34

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Sometimes when I use aftereffects I run out of 32GB

Frenchlicker > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 12/05/2016 at 08:47

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How is that possible? I had more than that on a MacBook Air and could barely survive.

TheRealBicycleBuck > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 12/05/2016 at 09:04

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My laptop has 16gb of RAM. I’m never far from an outlet.

I’m usually using GIS, but I often have AutoCAD and/or Microstation, Word, Excel, and multiple browser windows open at the same time. I’m fortunate to have a couple of servers to offload tasks that take a long time to process (i.e. processing LIDAR or mosaicking large image sets).

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 12/05/2016 at 09:10

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Sometimes I get error messages from trying to copy and paste because that’s going to use too many resources and the clipboard is full :/

Jake Huitt - Two Alfas And A Nissan, Not A Single Running Car > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 12/05/2016 at 09:14

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7 am here and I’m over 26gb of my 32 so far and I haven’t opened anything but the insane amounts of web tabs and a few instances of excel.

E90M3 > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 12/05/2016 at 10:01

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Electrical engineering? That sounds way too hard.

jimz > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 12/05/2016 at 10:05

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Hell, Chrome is reason enough for 16 GB of RAM.

TylerJ > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 12/05/2016 at 10:06

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Must be a medical thing. I work in healthcare IT and the PCs we are told to buy only have 4GB ram and the hardcore PC users are always calling to say that their PC says it is out of resources.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > TylerJ 12/05/2016 at 10:11

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Get better PCs! At leat yours are 64 bit though. I’m stuck with 32, which is gross.

Tekamul > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 12/05/2016 at 10:27

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uh-huh.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > E90M3 12/05/2016 at 11:03

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Gotta wrangle them pixies.

E90M3 > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 12/05/2016 at 11:04

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I did chemical engineering aka advanced plumbing.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Tekamul 12/05/2016 at 11:14

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rip

TylerJ > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 12/05/2016 at 11:29

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 Only some are 64-bit. And we can’t. The configurations we order are specified by our corporate overlords.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > TylerJ 12/05/2016 at 11:32

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My computer all day every day.  Taking this screenshot was a struggle for it.

jasmits > E90M3 12/05/2016 at 11:33

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Having many of my friends studying ChemE it looks more like miserable advanced plumbing.

jasmits > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 12/05/2016 at 11:36

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They gave me better than that as a software engineering intern at (insert major tech company), but then proceeded to load it with so much bloatware and antivirus software that it was all pointless

E90M3 > jasmits 12/05/2016 at 11:45

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Can confirm, it was miserable.