is 16GB of ram now helpful for gaming

sunshinewelly · 7 Jun 2016 at 11:57

there seems to be a cheap deal on hyper x fury ram at the moment for around £20 for 8GB.

just wondering whether i should go from my current 8GB to 16GB

Zefan · 7 Jun 2016 at 12:01

Like most questions with reference to whether it's worth upgrading, it depends what you're doing. You can cut out all guesswork by running task manager/resource monitor while gaming. You'll be able to quit or just alt+tab out and see what your RAM usage is. By doing this you're seeing it for yourself, instead of upgrading based on guesswork or taking someone else's word for it

snips86x · 7 Jun 2016 at 12:01

If you can afford the upgrade, go for it! 8gb will be fine but 16gb will guarantee you for the future.

smilertoo · 7 Jun 2016 at 12:01

Doesn't do any harm.

chroniclard · 7 Jun 2016 at 12:02

8GB is fine, though I came pretty close to maxing that in GTA V so I upgraded to 16gb.

Stoner81 · 7 Jun 2016 at 13:15

For me personally I won't go lower than 16GB these days but that is my personal preference more than anything else.

Stoner81.

beany_bot · 8 Jun 2016 at 08:57

I would say 12gb Is the new safe minimum

Rozzy85 · 9 Jun 2016 at 19:36

If you do gaming and nothing productive then 8GB is enough. RAM is so cheap now though that it's not going to cost much extra to up it to 16GB.

Mercutio · 9 Jun 2016 at 22:52

There's a couple of games that can now push past 8GB if more is available (I think fallout 4 being one). Don't think anything is pushing 16GB for gaming but... for got the sake of a pair of matched sticks, eh, no reason why not.

Quartz · 9 Jun 2016 at 23:43

16 GB will mean that your game will start faster as less stuff will have to be paged out to disk to make room.

ukxenon · 10 Jun 2016 at 06:44

Always nice to have more

HACO · 10 Jun 2016 at 07:59

8GB is now just about enough. Best to go 16GB to be sure.

kully1972 · 11 Jun 2016 at 12:39

Its a must. Rainbow six uses around 12gb and new doom around 10 @4k.

ATOJAR · 11 Jun 2016 at 14:39

I still remember years ago when i went form 4GB to 8GB ... Noticed a massive difference. Going to 16GB from 8GB around a year ago though not so much.

Doug73458 · 11 Jun 2016 at 16:42

snips86x said:
If you can afford the upgrade, go for it! 8gb will be fine but 16gb will guarantee you for the future.

Couldn't have said it better, I personally still use 8gb but my make the transition to 16gb in the future

ToTheMax · 14 Jun 2016 at 19:19

Playing Elite Dangerous on one screen while watching Netflix on one screen and a Twitch stream on another was using 12Gb. Maybe a bit of an extreme example but I'd say go with 16Gb

GinGo · 17 Jun 2016 at 01:10

I've been thinking this, i have 8Gb and never really saw the point of getting 18Gb, but with how cheap RAMM actually is i was thinking of just getting it for the sake of it!

passey89 · 17 Jun 2016 at 07:05

GinGo said:
I've been thinking this, i have 8Gb and never really saw the point of getting 18Gb, but with how cheap RAMM actually is i was thinking of just getting it for the sake of it!

This is my theory ATM as rams has gone cheap again. Need another 2 sticks in mine for quad channel so might swap out.

But I wouldn't put less than 16gb in now especially as the price is too cheap

XeNoNF50 · 17 Jun 2016 at 14:11

Go with 16gb. I've had mine plenty of times > 8gb usage.

Jamielicious · 18 Jun 2016 at 16:32

It's a good idea to see what you currently use, 8GB will be enough for a good while yet but no harm in moving to 16GB on a good deal.