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[Colif]

Sounds like an excuse to upgrade main rig if laptop passes it.

Do you need it all? I have 32gb and most I ever used was when a game (Diablo 4) had a vram memory leak. I only get to 20gb ram usage if I open a Virtual Machine

Having said that, tempting to get 96gb in next PC, just cause I can. Kind of pointless. More likely to change CPU to a 9950x3d instead, 64gb is probably enough ram.

 

[red_5ive]

Sounds like an excuse to upgrade main rig if laptop passes it.

Do you need it all? I have 32gb and most I ever used was when a game (Diablo 4) had a vram memory leak. I only get to 20gb ram usage if I open a Virtual Machine

Having said that, tempting to get 96gb in next PC, just cause I can. Kind of pointless. More likely to change CPU to a 9950x3d instead, 64gb is probably enough ram.

lol I'm fine with 32 GB on my main rig. It rarely goes above 60% with a new(er) game, along with all kinds of other garbage I might have running. But I have 2 slots free, so if I start seeing that hard drive chunking...

I don't really need the 48 GB. The simple answer is I just didn't want to spend the $ on RAM. My prior gaming laptop (Asus F15) came with 2 x 8 GB of RAM, but one stick was soldered to the board. Being that it supported up to 40 GB, I figured I'd just go with a 32 GB stick instead of 16 GB which would have made it 24. I restored the old 8 GB stick and moved the 32 GB stick to the Zephyrus, which similarly has a single 16 GB stick soldered to to the board and 1 open slot. So that's how I ended up with the 48 GB.

While I think 48 GB for now is still kind'a pointless (and also the 40 GB I had previously) for gaming, and 96 would be overkill if not for something like a server, I wouldn't argue on doing it just because you can. I tend to go overkill with some of my other hobbies so who am I to say otherwise. Why not?

 

[red_5ive]

Also, I hadn't tried a game yet after adding the RAM, until now. The laptop has a 4070 M gpu (which I think is the equivalent of a 3070). I was only getting 60 FPS in a 2019 game (Ghost Recon: Breakpoint), but after installing the RAM it jumped to 100 FPS and running very smooth at 100Hz.

 

[Colif]

Guess that is one reason for more ram on a laptop, the GPU gets more resources to access.

If I use the lian li software to control my AIO fans, I can hear this noise all the time from one of the fans.
If I let the bios control then, I don't get the noise.

I can't recall why I swapped back to letting software control them.

 

[Colif]

Progress, went from 32mb of ram in 2001 to 32gb of vram in 2025.
Price almost stayed in line with increase in amount...

ASUS V7100 MAGIC Specs

NVIDIA NV11B, 175 MHz, 2 Pixel Shaders, 0 Vertex Shaders, 4 TMUs, 2 ROPs, 32 MB SDR, 166 MHz, 64 bit

www.techpowerup.com

 

[isleepinabed]

Progress, went from 32mb of ram in 2001 to 32gb of vram in 2025.
Price almost stayed in line with increase in amount...

ASUS V7100 MAGIC Specs

NVIDIA NV11B, 175 MHz, 2 Pixel Shaders, 0 Vertex Shaders, 4 TMUs, 2 ROPs, 32 MB SDR, 166 MHz, 64 bit

www.techpowerup.com

I think I got mine for GTA 3 about that time