24GB of ram is it worth it

manius · 6 Mar 2015 at 16:45

Hi
I have 8gb of the amd gamer series that came with my motherboard bundle i just had a look for another 8Gb to upgrade but i found a 16Gb B grade deal on oc so (2 stick)is it worth getting ?? or should i just see about getting another 8GB

corsair 540
Intel Core i7-4790K 4.00GHz
Asus Maximus VII Ranger Intel Z97
AMD Gamer 8GB
Powercolor Radeon R9 290 PCS+ OC 4096MB
Crucial ssd 256.06 GB
Corsair Force 3 SSD

Skiddley · 9 Mar 2015 at 16:57

For games no. For specific applications that you know to need 24gig, yes.

I have 32GB, games never appear to push it beyond 8GB utilisation.

McGraw · 9 Mar 2015 at 20:30

I have 16gb and only ever get near it doing panos in Photoshop and Premiere editing.

GamerCub · 9 Mar 2015 at 21:32

8gig is plenty for gamers/games to be honest. I do have 16gig in mine and the only the time I see it reaches 13/14gig. When I use 3D Max/Maya, Photoshop and UE4 for work and small projects of mine.

mrbazmondo · 9 Mar 2015 at 21:33

I have 32GB, but run several virtual machines. My desktop VM has 8GB assigned to it which is fine for playing games with chrome keeping over 100 tabs open at the same time.

More memory used to mean more disk is cached in memory, but its not such an issue any more if you have an SSD.

I'd just make sure you can make use of all the memory channels as that will increase memory bandwidth, rather than sticking it all in one slot.

Jamielicious · 9 Mar 2015 at 22:29

It'll be fine in 2020 let alone now so go for it.