Help me figure out how I am going to do SCIENCE*!
Okay. I am in the market for a beefy machine, but I am trying to weigh how much RAM to get. I have some science I want to do, but cannot justify spending for 1TB from any vendor (they ask for like $4K minimum). Since polls are fun and I am a bit indecisive, how much RAM should a research machine have? I can find machines in my budget ($2.5K) with this amount of RAM. And no, I am not getting a beefy GPU off the bat. Might add later, but moreso for gaming instead of research.
How much RAM for my new workstation?
64 GB
128 GB
256 GB
512 GB
Other (less than 512GB)
Voting ended onFeb 20, 2023
*science here meaning any type of research in the STEM field, not any particular discipline, but for those who know, I am solving PDEs with millions of degrees of freedom, or that is the goal.