Does RAM really make that much of a difference?

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I am planning on upgrading my computer in the next few months,

here are my current specs :

i5 2500k OC at 4.5GHz
ATI 6770 1GB Graphics Card - soon to be upgraded to a 7950
2GB DDR3 RAM Corsair Value
OCZ ZS Series 750W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply
Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
500GB HDD
Pretty Basic Disk Drive (not sure exact model)

i can run games fine; Skyrim, AC3, XCOM etc. at max settings but the after attempting to run the new crysis 3 beta and struggling i have decided it is time for another upgrade - i am planning on buying the Ati 7950 which ofcourse is going to cost abit of money

what i am wondering is if the RAM makes that much of a difference to gaming? and if so what amount would you recommend to increase overall performance?
 
8GB is the norm for gaming rigs nowadays.
I recently went from 4 to 8, and couldn't really notice much of a difference (FPS wise) however some stuttering went and alt-tabbing was a lot snappier.
I'd say go for 8GB.
 
^Agreed

Bump it up to 8. You should see a fair bit of an improvement, but anything over that would be overkill atm.
 
8gb is plenty, had 16gb, (bought 8gb on a whim one evening as it was cheap). Didnt really need it tbh. Removed it as it also made overclocking a bit easier.
 
8gb is what's considered a healthy minimum these days, largely because it's pretty much the same price as 6gb, which would also probably suffice. 2gb, -no- -way-. upgrade your ram first, it's cheap and easy
 
2GB of ram...how the hell do you live.

Alt tabbing must SUCK.

8GB minimum for gaming, 16gb for video/photoshop/3d/music editing.

I sometimes play minecraft with over 70 mods installed and see the java application in the task manager creeping over 3gb.
 
you are running that system with 2gb of ram...

stick in 8gb and downclock the CPU to 200mhz or slap in a ide card and stick the os on a 3600rpm maxtor 1GB hdd
 
upgraded to this last night: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-017-AD

massive performance increase!! alt tabbing is much quicker and games load a lot faster than before, haven't seen much increase in game performance except for in DayZ which for some reason was running at 12fps on with my previous ram - now running at around 40fps on medium, i suppose it must be an extremely Ram reliant game

anyway thanks for the help guys!! :D
 
Now, buy an SSD and put Windows on it. You'll start crying and wish you'd done it sooner.

Even in my netbook, I've put 4Gb ram in it, makes a huge difference over 2Gb
 
4gb is worth it. 8gb because it is so cheap. However I still see a lot of people putting 8gb ram into a 32bit windows machine. . .

4gb fine for everything.

8gb+ when you want lots of appz open, or running really large screen gaming, with all the bells and shinny bits turned on!

I run 16gb because I needed quad channel ram, and really wanted the samsung green. Most i've used is about 7gb.
 
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