

I felt the pressure of only running 16GB and after one of the RAM sticks died, I wanted to upgrade. Because of a promotion, I had the choice to either run 32GB or 64GB for about the same price. Compared to today, I paid a laughable price for that RAM back then (IIRC a little bit more then 100 bucks for 4x16GB). I rarely use more than 50% of the RAM, but hey, who am I to complain?
Side effect: My old RAM always failed, when I tried to activate DOCP/XMP so this upgrade gave me another performance boost back then.
I’m only really using it when either playing around with some datasets or when running a local LLM. The really big ones are still a problem because your CPU is a huge bottle neck then.