The RAM crisis and the PC apocalypse

[Rincewiend]

PC building influencers are also to blame; "You need a Geforce x090 and 128 DDR ram to play games!"...
No you dont, especially if you play on 1K or 2K resolutions...

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Nope, CCD is the part of the (AMD) chip where the actual CPU cores are located, Core Complex Die, AMD CPU's are chiplet designs, besides CCD's they also have an IO die and on some APU's a seperate grfx die, also the 3DV cache is another die that gets fitted underneath the CCD, so to get a 16 core CPU they put two CCD's in one CPU, want only 8 then only one CCD is fitted, have a big Epyc CPU then stuff for example 4 CCD's onto you CPU for 32 cores and 64 threads.
it's very cost effective, Epyc and Ryzen CCD's are all the same so no (expensive) different design for lower end and higher end CPU's.

OK my bad I thought you mistyped CCD as in Charged Couple Devices

 

[Owain Taggart]

And here I thought you meant CCD in terms of camera sensors and here I am wondering what that had to do with PCs

PC building influencers are also to blame; "You need a Geforce x090 and 128 DDR ram to play games!"...
No you dont, especially if you play on 1K or 2K resolutions...

That has always annoyed me. Of course, part of it is that they're sometimes given stuff to promote, but the average person simply is not going to be pushing their PCs that hard. Heck, I'm still just using a 1080p monitor and it's as good and as big as I want it for the time being. I just don't have the room on my desk for something larger.

It reminds me of the recent controversy surrounding the October W11 update that corrupted some SSDs due to a bug, and I was watching one video in which the guy was trying to explain it could be triggered by playing something that quickly streams textures to the cache like a racing game, and I'd wondered at what resolution he was playing at. On top of this, it was revealed the influencers experiencing the bug were on pre-release drivers. Again, most people won't ever have access to those.