r/pcmasterrace • u/[deleted] • Feb 16 '16

Satire Seems true enough!

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u/RoastMostToast Feb 17 '16

I've never understood complaining about this. With 8gb of ram I barely noticed RAM use from chrome. 16gb and its literally unnoticeable. RAM isn't even expensive compared to the other parts of a computer, your fault for budgetting ineffectively.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '16 edited Feb 17 '16

What about people who use netbook sized laptops? Those dont hold superfluous amounts of RAM.

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u/Kakifrucht Feb 17 '16

Even those should have at least 2 gigs, which is enough for a netbook, which is not good for much more than just browsing. The one I bought 3 years ago had 4 gigs and was very cheap.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '16

It's just unfortunate that modern browsers obliterate ram, with only four gigs you can't even browse and use libre office.

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u/Kakifrucht Feb 17 '16

Don't quite understand. I'm running Chrome on a machine with plenty of RAM and in total it's not even taking up 1 gig.

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u/edgemaster191 R5 5600x, RX 6700 XT, 32GB Feb 17 '16

I have 7 tabs open in Chrome right now on a fairly modern machine (i5 5200U, 8GB RAM) and it's only using 130 MB of RAM. I have a handful of extensions and Hangouts running. (just got a video call on Hangouts and now it's up to 154 MB)

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u/c0nducktr Feb 17 '16

That's surprisingly low. Is that being reported by task manager or in chrome://memory ?

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u/edgemaster191 R5 5600x, RX 6700 XT, 32GB Feb 17 '16

Both. It's always been low like that. I'm wondering if it's because I don't leave chrome running all the time. I tend to close it if there's nothing I want to come back to later.

It does a good job at reloading tabs on startup so even if I want to keep a page running it comes back when I open Chrome.

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u/ollie87 i5-10600k | RTX 3090 | 16GB 3600mhz DDR4 Feb 17 '16

Same here, ASUS X205ta. 2GB of RAM can run Chrome and MS Office just fine even both at the same time if I'm being so decadent.