16gb RAM?

If you get 7 to preload loads of stuff I guess it might feel nice. There won't actually be much of a performance change between 16GB and lower amounts until said smaller sticks are actually filled and the pagefile comes into play.

Personally, I wouldn't even buy 8GB today. I don't do editing of any kind though. :p
 
In terms of home use 16GB is only going to come in useful doing heavily layered photoshop (100's high res layers or panoramic stitching), similarly complex HD video editing/rendering or VMs as mentioned.

I use a rig with 48GB of RAM and it is fairly easy to hit this RAM limit, we could use 96GB+ but its not worth the outlay. Its used in volume mesh generation for CFD analysis if you were wondering. CFD workstations with 192GB of RAM are not unheard of and the clusters that the simulation is run on can have TBs of RAM available over the nodes. The very top end hardware nodes can each have 512GB RAM on board.
 
Liquiduk said:
More money then sense kind of person but seriously is there any use at all for that much ram at the moment?
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People who say "then" when they mean than have no sense, so hush! :p

I'm gonna be upgrading to 24GB as soon as I possibly can, I like a lot of RAM and my current computer with 8GB of RAM is too little for me.
 
I had 8GB, but opening many RAW picture files memory would be used up.

Just picked up 16GB at under £100 of the Kingston Blu. 16GB is perhaps little overkill but it was dirt cheap and should be plenty for another 2-3 years.
 
yesterday for some reason (i wasnt running anything major just chrome evga precision and hardware monitor) and in the clock at the top it said i was using 8gb of ram O.o

currently using just short of 2gb for desktop and a single chrome page.. so i dont think having too much ram is a problem at all, more the merrier!
 
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