Yea, after the natural disaster, the tsunami, prices have slowly crept down as factories have been rebuilt.
8GB vs 16GB - Really?
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Yea, after the natural disaster, the tsunami, prices have slowly crept down as factories have been rebuilt.
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I'm on 8gb and haven't noticed and performance issues with GTA V.
I'm on 8GB (+) ram use with just games like Cities: Skylines on. With GTA5 I was well in the 10gb range before.
I can manage 6gb ram use when just ''working'' on the pc ( browser, IDE's like VS, mail, utilities, etc).
Anything ''free'' is used for caching, I don't see why people think it's pointless, if anything 32gb should be the way to go.
I turn my pc on from standby and my last used games are all cached and load much faster, and that's with just 16gb ram...
8GB ram is enough for GTA 5, but it means a lot will get chucked out you want to keep in, like all the browser windows/tabs and everything you run in the background.
I can manage 6gb ram use when just ''working'' on the pc ( browser, IDE's like VS, mail, utilities, etc).
Anything ''free'' is used for caching, I don't see why people think it's pointless, if anything 32gb should be the way to go.
I turn my pc on from standby and my last used games are all cached and load much faster, and that's with just 16gb ram...
8GB ram is enough for GTA 5, but it means a lot will get chucked out you want to keep in, like all the browser windows/tabs and everything you run in the background.
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what's your page file size ? I've had memory warnings on arma 3 and it's set at 6gb I have 8gb it was just a windows page file related false flag bug imo
I thought caching was just if you had superfetch enabled ?
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Well GTA V uses 3.2GB of VRAM for me and 3.3GB of system RAM:
At high resolutions (1440P+) you will find that 8GB of system RAM may not be enough if you use higher quality settings in game. I close nothing down when gaming, Lightroom/Photoshop and browsers etc remain open. It's faff closing stuff down when you have enough RAM to not have to do that.
Hey, another reason for 16GB
At high resolutions (1440P+) you will find that 8GB of system RAM may not be enough if you use higher quality settings in game. I close nothing down when gaming, Lightroom/Photoshop and browsers etc remain open. It's faff closing stuff down when you have enough RAM to not have to do that.
Hey, another reason for 16GB
What's MS got to do with this?
It all depends on what resolution and features you have on as to what is required. As you've said 8GB memory is nothing really though it depends if you're going to use it or not.
Memory is one of those really cheap upgrades which actually does more than you may notice. If you run out of memory then you start paging to the hard disk which is slower and then it severely affects performance.
I'd say buy memory if you are going to use it - if not then don't.
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No reason not to have 16GB these days.
Like you say, Windows tends to carry a bit of an overhead, and it's always nice to have some headroom.
I'm currently using 4GB out of 16 and I don't have any 3D apps open, just my 15 tabs in Firefox, but **** having to close the internet just to load a game!!
Like you say, Windows tends to carry a bit of an overhead, and it's always nice to have some headroom.
I'm currently using 4GB out of 16 and I don't have any 3D apps open, just my 15 tabs in Firefox, but **** having to close the internet just to load a game!!
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What's the rest of your rig? I've read about problems using 4 sticks with z97, I don't remember the specific details now but I'm on a 4790k with 8 gb and after reading about it I scrapped the grab an extra 8 gb plan and decided to go with 2 x 8 sticks and sell the 2 x 4 I've got.
You should Google the issue as it may be certain motherboards or something else if you're also on Z97.
You should Google the issue as it may be certain motherboards or something else if you're also on Z97.
Has been mentioned already, little reason not to grab another 8gb, especially if you seem to go through new and demanding titles which as time progresses will be more likely to actually utilise it (such as the few mentioned in thread)
To be fair seeing a 980ti mentioned I'd generally assume the system to already be running with 16gb as part of some 4690k/4790k monster build so picking up some more will simply round it off and future proof you for the next several years.
Especially when games seem kinda bottlenecked, in the respect the developers can't push specs too hard or they would put the product out of reach of most of their userbase, those on lower/mid range systems, they are only now even beginning to try to scrape the surface
To be fair seeing a 980ti mentioned I'd generally assume the system to already be running with 16gb as part of some 4690k/4790k monster build so picking up some more will simply round it off and future proof you for the next several years.
Especially when games seem kinda bottlenecked, in the respect the developers can't push specs too hard or they would put the product out of reach of most of their userbase, those on lower/mid range systems, they are only now even beginning to try to scrape the surface
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on Z97 here and using 4 x 4gb just because it was cheaper than 2 x 8gb at the time. No probs.
I've moved from 8>16 and back to 8 in my main rig, I've never noticed any performance deg in any games, even gta5.
That being said, ddr3 is still slowly dropping in price, whether or not it'll hold it's value with ddr4 being more widely adopted is another question. six and two three's really
That being said, ddr3 is still slowly dropping in price, whether or not it'll hold it's value with ddr4 being more widely adopted is another question. six and two three's really
My page file usage is 10 GB when playing. Hence my upping the size of it.
I know that increasing the size has of that has fixed stutter for a number of people.
This was my usage not long after launch....
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