32 gig ram ... not enough?

[Jun Ishiwata]

Hey guys , I've got a quick question. For work i normally use After effects , photoshop , illustrator etc... whilst working with it i usually need to download /search for content on the internet and then i run out of  available memory. I use Corsair vengeance 32 gig 3200mhz (4 sticks)... Now i was looking to buy some new ram (64 gig 3200) but the price of ram is still through the roof ... Is it really worth it ... or should i just kinda cope with it for a while. 

[Enderman]

That completely depends on your financial status and what you consider 'worth it'.........

Nobody can tell you if it's worth it to you or not.

[Jun Ishiwata]

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

That completely depends on your financial status and what you consider 'worth it'.........

Nobody can tell you if it's worth it to you or not.

Well sure indeed. But 800euro + for some more ram seems a bit steep. 

[Ravendarat]

Thats crazy, I can buy 64 gb of corsair vengence 3200 mhz right now for about 540 CAD

[Enderman]

2 minutes ago, Jun Ishiwata said:

Well sure indeed. But 800euro + for some more ram seems a bit steep. 

Yeah so you either want to and can afford to spend that much so that you don't run out of memory so often, or it's not worth it to you and you deal with 32GB of ram.

 

This is a decision you need to make.

Nobody here has any idea how much disposable income you have, your financial status, your job, your taxes, how often you run out of memory, how much money you make from doing your work, how much you time and money gain from having 64GB instead of 32, etc etc etc

[Jun Ishiwata]

1 minute ago, Ravendarat said:

Thats crazy, I can buy 64 gb of corsair vengence 3200 mhz right now for about 540 CAD

I know right ...
 

 

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

Yeah so you either want to and can afford to spend that much so that you don't run out of memory so often, or it's not worth it to you and you deal with 32GB of ram.

 

This is a decision you need to make.

Well i was just wondering if you guys maybe knew if the prices would drop in the near future.. Don't want to spend 800 and then see the prices drop a few months later.

[NumLock21]

800 euros for 64gb?

So you have a non hedt setup?

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Memory: Crucial - Ballistix Sport LT 64 GB (4 x 16 GB) DDR4-2666 Memory  (€362.45 @ Amazon Espana)
Total: €362.45
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-04-23 00:29 CEST+0200

[Jun Ishiwata]

4 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

800 euros for 64gb?

So you have a non hedt setup?

Depends on what you mean with High end desktop 

[Wh0_Am_1]

2 minutes ago, Jun Ishiwata said:

I know right ...
 

 

Well i was just wondering if you guys maybe knew if the prices would drop in the near future.. Don't want to spend 800 and then see the prices drop a few months later.

To my knowledge the likeliness of a major price drop in the near future is slim. Now, to answer your question, about whether it is worth it or not, you first need to ask, "by how much is it slowing me down?" If you are doing this for work and have plenty of things to do, I would say that if it slow you down by more than 5% it is worth it to get more RAM, otherwise you can probably deal with it, though here is another idea if you have a free nvme slot use it for Optane, and use that Optane as RAM. 

 

[NumLock21]

1 minute ago, Jun Ishiwata said:

Depends on what you mean with High end desktop 

HEDT like those with 8 ram slots such as the X299 from Intel and X399 from AMD. Here are some ram prices of 64GB

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 64 GB (4 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  (€457.92 @ Amazon Espana)
Memory: Crucial - Ballistix Sport LT 64 GB (4 x 16 GB) DDR4-2666 Memory  (€362.45 @ Amazon Espana)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V 64 GB (4 x 16 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (€382.92 @ Amazon Espana)
Total: €1203.29
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-04-23 00:31 CEST+0200

[Enderman]

9 minutes ago, Jun Ishiwata said:

Well i was just wondering if you guys maybe knew if the prices would drop in the near future.. Don't want to spend 800 and then see the prices drop a few months later.

Well, unfortunately nobody here can predict the future either so it's up to you if you want to wait and see.

[Jun Ishiwata]

1 minute ago, Wh0_Am_1 said:

To my knowledge the likeliness of a major price drop in the near future is slim. Now, to answer your question, about whether it is worth it or not, you first need to ask, "by how much is it slowing me down?" If you are doing this for work and have plenty of things to do, I would say that if it slow you down by more than 5% it is worth it to get more RAM, otherwise you can probably deal with it, though here is another idea if you have a free nvme slot use it for Optane, and use that Optane as RAM. 

 

oh i see thats actually very helpful .. I do have a second MVME slot .. I'll look into that. Thanks for the informative comment.

[Wh0_Am_1]

Just now, Jun Ishiwata said:

oh i see thats actually very helpful .. I do have a second MVME slot .. I'll look into that. Thanks for the informative comment.

Your welcome!

[Jun Ishiwata]

1 minute ago, NumLock21 said:

HEDT like those with 8 ram slots such as the X299 from Intel and X399 from AMD. Here are some ram prices of 64GB

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 64 GB (4 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  (€457.92 @ Amazon Espana)
Memory: Crucial - Ballistix Sport LT 64 GB (4 x 16 GB) DDR4-2666 Memory  (€362.45 @ Amazon Espana)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V 64 GB (4 x 16 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  (€382.92 @ Amazon Espana)
Total: €1203.29
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-04-23 00:31 CEST+0200

No i don't use those ... just a asus z390 maximus code XI. 

[NumLock21]

1 minute ago, Jun Ishiwata said:

oh i see thats actually very helpful .. I do have a second MVME slot .. I'll look into that. Thanks for the informative comment.

Are you using Google Chrome by any chance. If so, then that might be all of your ram problems.

[NumLock21]

1 minute ago, Jun Ishiwata said:

No i don't use those ... just a asus z390 maximus code XI. 

Those memory are for your board where it only has 4 ram slots.

 

[Jun Ishiwata]

1 minute ago, NumLock21 said:

Are you using Google Chrome by any chance. If so, then that might be all of your ram problems.

I actually do use Chrome .. But Chrome has saved a lot of my passwords that i don't remember . What browser do you propose i should use ?

[NumLock21]

2 minutes ago, Jun Ishiwata said:

I actually do use Chrome .. But Chrome has saved a lot of my passwords that i don't remember . What browser do you propose i should use ?

Try firefox

[TahoeDust]

1 hour ago, Jun Ishiwata said:

No i don't use those ... just a asus z390 maximus code XI. 

Sooooooo......not HEDT

[fargonaz]

12 minutes ago, TahoeDust said:

Sooooooo......not HEDT

Thank God we have you!

 

 

[TahoeDust]

Just now, fargonaz said:

Thank God we have you!

 

 

Why didn't you just answer it the first time when someone was trying to help you?  Instead of "Depends on what you mean with High end desktop".

[fargonaz]

2 minutes ago, TahoeDust said:

Why didn't you just answer it the first time when someone was trying to help you?  Instead of "Depends on what you mean with High end desktop".

Umm K. Have a great life.

[circeseye]

question...would buying a 64gig or bigger ssd and throwing the page file on it help if running out of actual ram? i know its not as fast but would work wouldnt it? it would be way cheaper then him buying more ram?

the reason i ask this..majority of stuff running like projects use both and when main ram is full will use page file till its full then you get the running out message...just like a game that had a memory leak..i use a 64gig ssd for my page file and thats because one game i played had a memory leak and ran out all the time..gave the page file its own hard drive and no more running out

[TahoeDust]

1 minute ago, fargonaz said:

Umm K. Have a great life.