[Yajiuma Mini Review] 16GB may be out of date ... I tried to increase the memory of my notebook PC to 64GB --PC Watch
notebook-laptopThe author has shifted to working from home almost 100%, but the chances of using a notebook PC have increased. I have a desktop PC with powerful specs in my work room, so I do most of the work there, but I also have the opportunity to do my work in the living room, and I use my gaming notebook.
I've been working with ASUS's Zephyrus G14 for almost a year now. Since the processor has 8 cores and 16 threads, I haven't felt any shortage in processing, but there was one concern when editing photos using Photoshop CC. The 16GB of memory, which was initially thought to be vast, is used up just by opening about 20 images.
In June, I bought a camera called "PowerShot G1 X Mark III" instead of "PowerShot G16" which has been used for many years and the leather of the grip part has peeled off, and I used it for photography of the article, but the number of pixels The biggest reason is probably the increase in the amount of data, thanks to the doubling from 12.1 million pixels to 24.2 million pixels. About 200MB to 300MB of memory is consumed each time one sheet is opened.
In my work, it is natural to release about 100 to 200 shutters in about an hour of coverage. First of all, I select the out-of-focus and out-of-exposure photos with the photo viewer and delete them, but for the time being, I leave all the remaining photos with proper focus / exposure and load them all together in Photoshop. .. Among them, it is a work flow that compares multiple photos while switching the tabs of Photoshop and edits the one that is better taken as it is.
Then, of course, even if you say "only the best shot", about 100 shots remain, and if you try to read it all at once, 16GB of memory will be exhausted in a blink of an eye, swapping to SSD will start, and the speed will drop significantly. On the contrary, when I throw in 143 photos, it spits out an error during reading and kills it.
Photoshop crashed when trying to load 143 imagesSo, in order to work a little more comfortably, a cheap gaming notebook with 32GB of memory ... So, it is equipped with Core i7-11800H, 32GB of memory, 1TB of storage, GeForce RTX 3070, and WUXGA liquid crystal which is an essential requirement of the author. I ordered a note called "Thun de Robot Zero" from Banggood on an overseas EC site, but for some reason it arrived after waiting for 3 weeks because it was a model with 16GB + 512GB of memory. Of course, I contacted Banggood and asked for a refund of the difference, but as expected it was genial to the same memory capacity.
However, since this notebook uses a general DDR4 SO-DIMM module, it can be expanded. So, this time, I tried to increase the memory to 64GB at once with G.SKILL's "F4-3200C22D-64GRS", a 32GB x 2 memory module. This product has a high speed of DDR4-3200 and a large capacity of 64GB in total, but it is sold at a relatively low price of 30,000 yen.
A notebook called Thunde Robot Zero that was the target of the replacement.It's made by a medium-sized manufacturer in China. When I opened the bottom, Samsung's 8GB x 2 was used in the package standard of F4-3200C22D-64GRS.
It's easy to add, remove the screw on the bottom and remove the bottom cover while paying attention to the claws. Replace with the original module. That's it. By the way, the first power-on after memory replacement is a long initialization of a little over 1 minute while the screen is dark, but it is normal unless the power is turned off immediately or an error beep sounds, so wait for a while. ..
By the way, as far as I can see from this memory of G.SKILL, HWiNFO64, it seems that the chip of SK hynix is used. The CL is 22-22-22-52, and the voltage is 1.2V, which is JEDEC compliant. The heat generation is also suppressed, giving the impression of being extremely stable. I felt that this area was G.SKILL, which has been dedicated to memory for many years. It also comes with a limited lifetime warranty, so you can use it with confidence.
The machine was reborn with 64GB of memory in this way, but when I threw the same 143 photos into Photoshop as before, all of them opened without problems. At this point, the task manager showed that it was consuming about 41.4GB of memory. It would be a great answer to choose 64GB instead of 32GB. In this case, it seems that you can throw all the photos taken at one time into Photoshop and work on it.
After increasing the memory to 64GB, I tried throwing in 143 images that became available up to about 50GB in Photoshop, and 40.9GB was consumed.The amount of memory consumption has a lot to do with how users use it, and the camera I'm using happened to be in the 24MP class, so 16GB of memory was a bit cramped ... but honestly. I wasn't aware that I was a heavy memory user, but when I realized it, 16GB wasn't enough.
If you think about it, memory management and usage are different depending on the OS, but 8GB is commonplace even on smartphones, and if you pay 100,000 yen, you can buy a machine with 12GB or 16GB memory. Tasking is a matter of course, and the fact that it is a more expensive PC and has the same amount of memory as a smartphone is a strange story.
Perhaps there are many users who are using the swap file without noticing it even if they are accessing the swap file at the timing when the HDD is changed to SSD? You may find out what resources are missing on your PC.
8GB is still the mainstream for mainstream PCs in the streets, about 16GB for gaming, 32GB at the high end ... The situation seems to be similar to the relationship between 8MB, 16MB, 32MB when Windows 95 was released. I think, as Windows 11 became more widespread, I thought it wasn't too far away when 64GB of memory was the norm.
