I got 32 additional GB of ram at a low, low cost from someone. What can I actually do with it?
I apparently used all 64GB of my RAM in a video game when using cheats and it crashed my computer lol
Open 10 extra tabs in chrome
LOL, maybe If I used Chrome.
An extra 20 Firefox tabs
♾️ extra Orion tabs
In my case, it’s less about being able to open more Firefox tabs and more about Firefox being able to go longer between crashes due to a memory leak. (I know, I know… Firefox doesn’t have memory leaks anymore. It’s probably due to an extension or some bad JavaScript in one of my perpetually-open sites or something. One of these days I’ll get around to troubleshooting it…)
You never have to close a browser tab again. If a window is full just minimize it and start a new one!
I hate having more than 5 open at a time. Apparently this is not normal.
I do the same. Spare tabs are bad and drain data.
Only 5?
Or did you forget to type a zero or two?
5 tabs
Wow, I’ve got more than that pinned
The way it was meant to be
I just hit 230 on my phone.
Mobile browser tabs are both too persistent in that they don’t get cleaned up when you close the browser, and too amnesiac in that they can kill a connection if they are placed in background for even for even a couple of seconds.
Its the worst of both worlds.
I’ve opened infinity on my phone if Firefox is to be trusted.
You could run a Java program, but you’d quickly run out of ram.
Keep it and wait for the applications to bloat up. You won’t feel like you have an excessive amount of RAM in a few years.
More than I could do on my Apple IIe at 64k.
Depends… If it’s DDR5 it might not work with the other stick… I was unable to add on another 64GB to my desktop a last year and had to eventually just buy a whole new 128GB set.
You could build another computer/server and self host things…
It’s DDR4, I’m too poor to upgrade right now. Doubt I’d benefit from it much anyway. I am thinking of building a server however. I have most of the parts minus a power supply.
Photogrammetry (with Meshroom) or 3D scanning (point cloud alignments and processing has some beast requirements).
Meshroom would gladly use any resources it can find within a 20 mile radius.
+1 For meshroom Used it with side hobbies. Was fun! 👍
This looks promising. Do I have to be artistically gifted to use it?
Not at all. It absolutely is horrendously complex at times, so be warned. However, it’s an awesome learning project, if you like those kinds of things. (Paw through YouTube for photogrammetry projects as it’s really neat stuff.)
I “stole” a big fossilized rock specimen by taking a 4k video with my phone from all angles. Extracted a few thousand frames and rebuilt it. It doesn’t look like much without the surface texture, but I was able to generate a reasonable 3D model. (Meshroom has also been the only app to thermal-throttle my 7950X3D.)
That’s super neat!
Open 1000 instances of vim
Here’s what you can do with your impressive 64 GB of RAM:
Store approximately 8.1 quintillion (that’s 8,100,000,000,000,000) zeros! Yes, that’s right, an endless ocean of nothingness that will surely bring balance to the universe.
Unless something’s gone over my head here, this is off by around 6 orders of magnitude.
A long sequence of zeros compresses really well :)
im sorry but you can’t do anything with it i guess you’re fucked
I used to have a batch file to create a ram disk and mirror my Diablo3 install to it. The game took a bit longer to start up but map load times were significantly shorter.
I don’t know if any modern games would fit and have enough loads to really care…but you could
Sell it to somebody at a medium, medium cost who needs it
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Compressed swap (zram)
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Compiling large C++ programs with many threads
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Virtual machines
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Video encoding
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Many Firefox tabs
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Games
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Run a fairly large LLM on your CPU so you can get the finest of questionable problem solving at a speed fast enough to be workable but slow enough to be highly annoying.
This has the added benefit of filling dozens of gigabytes of storage that you probably didn’t know what to do with anyway.
