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piskov 13 hours ago

> replacing a stick of ram

How often does your RAM fail you?

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Octoth0rpe 12 hours ago | parent [-]

The use case is to replace an existing working stick with a higher capacity stick, not just for repairs.

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culopatin 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

On my experience, every time I’ve been in the situation of looking for more capacity because the software requirements have gone up, I’m 1-2 generations of DDR behind and it doesn’t really make sense to do the upgrade anyway.

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IshKebab 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How often are you actually going to do that though? My desktop from 12 years ago has 16GB of RAM and Apple only just upgraded their base specs to 16GB.

Ok granted my new desktops have 128GB, but that's massive overkill so I can have like 12 VSCode's open. For normal people 16GB has been the sensible amount for at least a decade.

	▲	Octoth0rpe 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I tend to agree. But some people at least want the option. I would also say only in 2025 has that shifted for me as well. I've been perfectly fine with 16gb of ram for at least a decade, but local LLMs have me wanting for more.