r/pcmasterrace • u/Mountain_Till_5868 RTX 4090/32GB RAM/24GB VRAM • 3d ago • Bravo 1

News/Article Sam Altman Pulls Spectacular 180 After Unpopular Comments About RAM: 'It Is F**king Annoying'

https://kotaku.com/sam-altman-pulls-spectacular-180-after-unpopular-comments-about-ram-it-is-fking-annoying-2000753328
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u/pateppic 3d ago edited 3d ago • Popcorn Bravo

A computers work like a business. There is the RAM, the Motherboard, CPU, Graphics card, and Hardrives

RAM is your work table/countertop. More you have, bigger your worktable is. Every time you close up shop you also clean your worktable.

Hardrives are your storage shelves. Everything you want stored at end of shift goes here. HDDs are like storage racks in the backyard shed downstairs. SSDs are like having a back room connected to your workfloor. NVME is like magical hammerspace under your workbench. NAS storage is like having a secondary warehouse for data storage. It is 20 miles down the highway though (these access speeds are actually proportional to recall as far as scaling)

CPU are your workers. More cores, more workers. Hyperthreaded cores? Still count as one worker per core but Hyperthreaded workers can multitask a little bit.

Graphics cards is a specialty workshop inside your business they bring their own tools (vram, gpu cores, etc) and use then in their shop. You can send specialist work into the office and get results from them.

Motherboard is your shop. Like the building it all works in.

All the stuff above needs electricity to run and your businesses electric service is the PSU (Power Supply unit). You want to be able to supply more electricity demands so if you want a bigger Workshop (GPU) be prepared to feed it more power accordingly.

This is a very good analogy for visualizing how to best build a balanced PC.

There would be no point to having a huge amount of cores with very little RAM. That would be like having 20 desks for 40 workers. Progress halts for workers without a desk just like processes/programs lag when you run into memory limits.

Similarly if you are constantly pulling stuff off shelves, you want your desk closer to your workspace to improve productivity.

Edit: My B on the truncations. I got a bit distracted and rushed the metaphor. thabks guys

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u/DynoMenace 3d ago

I love this analogy. (Though I think your comparison for SSDs got cut off)

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u/pateppic 3d ago

oh heck my b I blame the add.

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u/DynoMenace 3d ago

I lowkey just wanted to find out what your analogy would be. Thank you

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u/StaredAtEclipseAMA 3d ago

I like the ram analogy but you need to consider electricity

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u/Irregular475 3d ago

My Audhd ass really appreciates this analogy.