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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

 

[Colif]

Dell have been beaten by Asus in a competition neither want to be in

 

[ZedClampet]

It's the CPU using the extra RAM in Ghost Recon Breakpoint, probably to reduce paging and decrease the amount of writes/reads to the SSD or NVMe. Open world games still overly tax laptop CPUs. It would be extremely rare for you to be GPU bound in an Ubisoft open world game on a laptop. Plus that GPU has 12 GB of VRAM, so there shouldn't be any overflow to regular RAM.

 

[Colif]

It's the CPU using the extra RAM in Ghost Recon Breakpoint, probably to reduce paging and decrease the amount of writes/reads to the SSD or NVMe. Open world games still overly tax laptop CPUs. It would be extremely rare for you to be GPU bound in an Ubisoft open world game on a laptop. Plus that GPU has 12 GB of VRAM, so there shouldn't be any overflow to regular RAM.

were you replying to a post in here or was this for another thread?

 

[Colif]

We finally convinced mum to upgrade TV today, we going from a
46inch Sony Bravia from 2011 that was 3d capable - I have the glasses but I never really used feature.... or TV.
to a
55inch Sony Bravia 7 mini led

That is not bad, 14 years out of one TV.

They prefer Sony, I would have chosen Samsung if given choice.

She has needed a new one for a while as her current one is scratched. She tried to clean it and got it wrong.
I have been trying to get her to upgrade for about a year or so... I gave up. Brother found a good deal and suggested she buy it... always case, no one listens to me. Next thing she needs is a new PC... I not going to wait a year for that.

bit of a jump, to a 4k HDR display. I will have to watch a few videos on it to see what I am missing (don't have HDR on PC). I will have to learn how it works just to help her.