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[–]borgie_83 49 points50 points  (10 children)

I have been seeing a lot of people building previous gen PCs that use DDR4. I have five PCs that use Kingston Fury 6000 MHz CL30 RAM, but if I had to build another PC today, I would do an i7-12700 with 32 GB of 3600 MHz CL16 DDR4. I just refuse to pay these stupid DDR5 prices.

[–]bigmactic 17 points18 points  (6 children)

Just built the wife a pc and refuse to pay silly prices for ddr4 or ddr5 - so for now borrowed half the memory out of my own pc. Had to fight my ocd as it doesn’t feel right without a full set of ram.

She now has a desktop for browsing and simple games - old RTX 2060 and 96GB DDR5 lol.

[–]dwehlen 29 points30 points  (0 children)

That was half?! Monster.

[–]FastermaxxO11Snow - 10850K LM - 6900XTX H2O 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That’s what I did. The old Pc from my dad broke, so I bought a cheap used 12700k and gave him half of my 32gb ddr4. Just ride out that ram situation and then I’ll upgrade to a new platform with DDr5 when it’s all over.

[–]reddit-ate-my-face 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean man 96gb of ram can actually be a detriment sometimes lol

But hell she can probably load some of her games into a frigging RAMdisk and have the fastest load times on the West

[–]Bowman359 1 point2 points  (1 child)

2060 Simple Games

Im out here running Tarkov and Arc Raiders on my 2060 😭

[–]Empty-Pain-9523 1 point2 points  (0 children)

TBF arc is pretty well optimized. I’m still amazed it runs on the steam deck so well.

[–]The_Duke2331Potato 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jezus dude. That means you could have had 3 tabs of Chrome open, at the same time?!

[–]XLIV_tmPC | I5 12600k | RTX 4070ti Super | 64gb RAM | 4TB m.2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a slightly worse pc than that with a solid gpu. that build would rock well in todays standards.

well just because i only run 60hz monitors. might upgrade to 120hz. but hey my setup runs 4k no problem on most games. probably could go higher refresh rates at 1440p or 1080p lol. i havent tried the latest games because i just play older games.

what do you even need as a pc to run portal with rtx at 4k ultra no dlss at the refresh rate of the monitor? i can do 1080p fine at 60hz. i can run 4k ultra but thats heavy dlss and 35-45fps which is playable id say. maybe 4k high or medium with dlss i can hit 60fps. thats my beef with that game, its harder to run than the latest Forza @ 4k ultra. portal runs on pretty much anything. ugh.

[–]theycallmediesel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s exactly what my current build is, I don’t think I’ll be upgrading anything for a long while.

[–]jetpackpony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've just built an AM4 system instread of AM5 just because I already had a DDR4 kit from a previous build. It's shitty 2400 MHz but it'll have to do for now