8gb Vs 16gb

well 16gb would provide more headroom to be able to game and not have issues with background programs but it also depends on whether the extra cost of 16gb v 8gb ~£100 is worth it for your budget. I just built a new pc and ended up dropping from 16gb to 8gb at the moment and have found no issues with most of the games i'm playing at the moment (Doom, Quake Champions)
 
Well you just validated by thoughts on this xx my current fx8350 with 16gb hardly ever gets close to using 16gb, only really when I have some vm's up. Gaming I think 8gb but I have not played any new titles and was unsure on how they run.
The price difference is ridiculous, my 16gb ddr3 was so cheap at the time.
 
For more recent games like bf1 8gb is no longer enough as games have now starting going beyond the 8gb limit to run at their best.

It depends which games really. In older games 8gb is fine.
 
Oh that turns out in its head then, I have been looking to rebuild for some time but current prices are putting me off. Looks like I need to budget for 16gb then as I want to go down the itx route.
 
Depends on what you do when not gaming and if you have lots of things running in the background. All the computers in my house run a minimum of 16GB, including my NAS (well, it's overkill for the NAS). Right now with just my usual applications open and Chrome browser I'm sitting on 5.6GB in use. Once I add Excel, Outlook and a few other things I can easily be at 7-8GB. If I load up a game then that's easily another 4GB+ on top.
 
how are people using so much ram just sitting using a browser? (I'm at less than 3.5gb with 6 windows open in edge and my usual startup apps,steam,origin etc.)
I have 8gb ram ive never even hit close to full use while gaming on bf4,assetto corsa,iracing,mordow,fallout 4 and that's using triple monitors.

I did use the barnacules windows guide tho to remove a lot of bloatware which helped a ton.

he does rattle on a bit but worth it in my opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1kGMCfb2xw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgKJMsJ-6XU
 
Games are exceeding 8GB so 16GB would be the minimum.

It wasn't that long age that 6GB was still doable, not sure if it's sign of bad coding or actual necessity, either way we need more memory these days.
 
depends on your PC use. i have a system with 4gb and it runs fine.
i myself and my son had 8gb of ram are gaming systems until about 3 months ago and we never got a low ram warning @ 1080 and 1440.

How ever for gaming and a mean gaming new games not playing 10 year old titles you need to be getting 16gb, 8gb would be fine for older games.
when you look at the cost of ram now days it not really much more expensive to pick up 16gb so you may as well because its only going to get more expensive.
also a lot of the lower cost kits over clock very well so dont feel you need a £350 kit for games as the £120 stuff will run games and 99% of all app just as good.
 
fastboy said:
how are people using so much ram just sitting using a browser? (I'm at less than 3.5gb with 6 windows open in edge and my usual startup apps,steam,origin etc.)
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By running a lot more than you are. 80+ chrome tabs is not an unusual number to be running on my machine here, and by the time you factor in background apps 16GB really gets lean. My machine (16GB) has run out of ram while gaming quite a few times.

We have a 2nd machine here that has 32GB ram with a 4GB pagefile. That crashed while gaming recently as the machine went OOM, we had to increase it's pagefile as 32+4GB isn't cutting it. I've just looked at that machine again and it currently sitting at 32.5GB committed, so if we open a game on that right now it will probably got OOM again as I doubt it has enough headroom.

If you run a lean near-console experience on your PC then I'm sure 16GB (or maybe even 8GB) will do more than fine, but once you start pushing a machine hard then RAM usage skyrockets very very quickly.
 
DarkBahamut said:
By running a lot more than you are. 80+ chrome tabs is not an unusual number to be running on my machine here, and by the time you factor in background apps 16GB really gets lean. My machine (16GB) has run out of ram while gaming quite a few times.

We have a 2nd machine here that has 32GB ram with a 4GB pagefile. That crashed while gaming recently as the machine went OOM, we had to increase it's pagefile as 32+4GB isn't cutting it. I've just looked at that machine again and it currently sitting at 32.5GB committed, so if we open a game on that right now it will probably got OOM again as I doubt it has enough headroom.

If you run a lean near-console experience on your PC then I'm sure 16GB (or maybe even 8GB) will do more than fine, but once you start pushing a machine hard then RAM usage skyrockets very very quickly.
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Never understand 80 tags, that's what I use favourites for.
 
DarkBahamut said:
By running a lot more than you are. 80+ chrome tabs is not an unusual number to be running on my machine here, and by the time you factor in background apps 16GB really gets lean. My machine (16GB) has run out of ram while gaming quite a few times.

We have a 2nd machine here that has 32GB ram with a 4GB pagefile. That crashed while gaming recently as the machine went OOM, we had to increase it's pagefile as 32+4GB isn't cutting it. I've just looked at that machine again and it currently sitting at 32.5GB committed, so if we open a game on that right now it will probably got OOM again as I doubt it has enough headroom.

If you run a lean near-console experience on your PC then I'm sure 16GB (or maybe even 8GB) will do more than fine, but once you start pushing a machine hard then RAM usage skyrockets very very quickly.
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Usually when I game I close my browser down... Never mind having 80 pages open...
 
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