32Gb RAM worth it for gaming?

[PhysicsMan94]

Well I think you only need 1GB!

Plenty enough for playing minesweeper

Nah, 256MB is where it's at at the moment!

 

[Akagi]

Nah, 256MB is where it's at at the moment!

256MB? You will never need more than 64K!

 

[Christmas themed thank]

256MB? You will never need more than 64K of memory!

No 8K.

 

[arknor]

I should add that if you plan to play Skyrim with an insane amount of mods (and, in particular, graphics mods) then 16GB is the way to go.

for what reason? most skyrim mods will only effect vram.

I never had any problems with skyrim and 8gb

 

[Christmas themed thank]

I should add that if you plan to play Skyrim with an insane amount of mods (and, in particular, graphics mods) then 16GB is the way to go.

No.

8GB is more than enough for gaming. 16GB for Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects. Gaming, no.

 

[Shocky-FM]

I'm still on 6GB and it's perfectly fine, due to the memory configurations allot of users have 8-16GB of memory but have no idea how much they actually need for games.

Trust me you can get by just fine with 6GB of memory in any new titles, the only game I recently had an issue with was COD Ghost which was a bit of a joke because the textures looked like crap, they also fixed it with a patch anyway.

 

[Akagi]

It's gitta be cluthable too.

 

[Christmas themed thank]

It's gitta be cluthable too.

Tony Williams!!!!

 

[Gav_881]

you looking at performance only

I'm looking at price per performance, reliability, upgredability , monitorsizeability, and dropping juice on laptop keyboard and computer keyboard.

Had one, graphic went faulty replacement was very expensive, never again

Your forgetting portability, took my whole rig to the Falklands for 4 months but now in an on the road job so lappy is the only sane option

 

[Kurisu Makise]

3GHz RAM is just stupidly expensive and utterly pointless.

not for bf4

http://www.corsair.com/en/blog/bf4-loves-high-speed-memory

 

[biuro74]

My 2 pennies are soo boring Gb relates to "giga-bit" and GB relates to "giga-byte". Byte is 8 bits, so you can easily calculate how much 16Gb is

 

[Akagi]

not for bf4

http://www.corsair.com/en/blog/bf4-loves-high-speed-memory

But BF4 is also utterly pointless at the moment is it not?

 

[rhysduck]

Nope 8 let alone 16 is a waste for gaming

Please explain why 8gb is a waste for gaming?

What do you use your sig rig for?

 

[teppic]

not for bf4

http://www.corsair.com/en/blog/bf4-loves-high-speed-memory

Not surprisingly when a non-memory manufacturer tested to compare, there was no difference at all.

http://www.sweclockers.com/image/diagram/4967?k=688ae22e8c22550a8a0ffb151257d02e

 

[PhysicsMan94]

No.

8GB is more than enough for gaming. 16GB for Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects. Gaming, no.

I beg to differ, I exceed 8GB of RAM usage when playing my version of Skyrim (with a lot of mods).

 

[teppic]

Skyrim can't physically use more than 4gb RAM.

 

[PhysicsMan94]

Skyrim can't physically use more than 4gb RAM.

Not from my experience.

 

[Gav_881]

My 2 pennies are soo boring Gb relates to "giga-bit" and GB relates to "giga-byte". Byte is 8 bits, so you can easily calculate how much 16Gb is

But then you have to take into account that they have reclassified it all to round numbers of 1000 for KB rather than 1024 now for some unspeakable reason. can't remember what 1024 is called now though

 

[Akagi]

Help, this is getting out of control!

 

[teppic]

Not from my experience.

A 32bit app cannot use more than 4GB RAM. It's as simple as that.