irregular ram amounts

[hardtofindinthefuture]

Why is it that ram amounts usually go like this (as of 2018)

1GB-Not enough

2GB-common at super low end

3GB-unheard of

4GB-common

5GB-unheardof

6GB-rare

7GB-unheard of

8GB-common

9GB-unheard of

10GB-Ultra rare

11GB-unheard of

12GB-rare

 

is there a reason that PCs dont come with odd amounts of ram? and most people when upgrading usually dont upgrade in sticks on 1GB?

[Vandorlot]

As of recently ddr4 which is a requirement for all recent amd platforms, and skylake or newer come in a minimum of 4gb. There are on occasion 2gb sticks but those are for manufacturers of laptops and 1 gb sticks weren't even a thing on ddr3 I believe. 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

4 minutes ago, v0nn_toaster said:

Why is it that ram amounts usually go like this (as of 2018)

1GB-Not enough

2GB-common at super low end

3GB-unheard of

4GB-common

5GB-unheardof

6GB-rare

7GB-unheard of

8GB-common

9GB-unheard of

10GB-Ultra rare

11GB-unheard of

12GB-rare

 

is there a reason that PCs dont come with odd amounts of ram? and most people when upgrading usually dont upgrade in sticks on 1GB?

My guess would be that it's not worth it for a manufacturer to be ordering massive amounts of 1GB sticks (which you'll need to get odd amounts of RAM as everything else is even). It's too small to be a significant upgrade so they'd rather step up to 2 and 4 GB sticks.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

1 minute ago, Vandorlot said:

As of recently ddr4 which is a requirement for all recent amd platforms, and skylake or newer come in a minimum of 4gb. There are on occasion 2gb sticks but those are for manufacturers of laptops and 1 gb sticks weren't even a thing on ddr3 I believe. 

You can get 1GB DDR3 DIMMs and SoDIMMs. But there's a reason why they are dirt cheap today on the second hand market. 

[Canada EH]

I got 12GB in this particular pc right now