While Valve jokingly asked the industry for spare RAM at GDC, Markiplier was streaming Resident Evil Requiem with 192GB of memory and 96GB of VRAM

A side by side image of Markiplier in Iron Lung and a marketing image of someone using the Steam Frame.

As the games industry awaits the arrival of Valve's Steam Frame VR headset, Steam Machine mini PC, and brand new Steam Controller, the RAMpocalypse is raging on. So much so that Valve jokingly asked at GDC last week if anyone had any spare RAM, could they send it the company's way to help with the launch of its new hardware. While everyone scrambles to find the best RAM for gaming, it seems that not everyone is short of memory in their at-home rigs.

While scrolling through my feed today, I found an absurd screenshot from one of Markiplier's Resident Evil Requiem livestreams, during which his PC specs were on show. The screengrab was caught by Twitter user @KipAshleyy, who observed that the content creator and Iron Lung star had an absurd 191.25GB of RAM in his machine, along with an RTX 6000 Workstation GPU and 95GB of VRAM.