How much RAM do I need?

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Hi all.

So at the moment I have 16gb of kingston fury beast with a r5 5600 and 6600xt card.

If i was to buy another 16gb does it need to be the same brand etc?

And how do I know how much RAM my system is actually using?

Thanks.
 
Open task manager, click on memory tab.
Or use AMD overlay to see RAM usage in games.

16GB is usually OK, especially given those specs if you're just gaming, I've been running 16 with a 5600 and 6750xt for ages with no issues.

If you want to, and if you have 4 slots another 16GB wouldn't hurt, best to have the same batch of RAM so you're already unable to do that, just get another set of the same stuff and unless you're clocking it high it'll probably be fine.
 
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Rob_B said:
Open task manager, click on memory tab.
Or use AMD overlay to see RAM usage in games.

16GB is usually OK, especially given those specs if you're just gaming, I've been running 16 with a 5600 and 6750xt for ages with no issues.

If you want to, and if you have 4 slots another 16GB wouldn't hurt, best to have the same batch of RAM so you're already unable to do that, just get another set of the same stuff and unless you're clocking it high it'll probably be fine.
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Thanks. according to task manager I'm using 41% doing nothing.
 
doggystyle said:
If i was to buy another 16gb does it need to be the same brand etc?
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It depends.

You have the best chance of a problem-free upgrade by:
- Running 2 sticks instead of 4 (due to the load on the CPU's memory controller).
- Running sticks of the same memory chips, frequency and timings.

Can you run 4 mismatched sticks? Yes. Does it have the best chance of working without issue? No.
 
Google? on your desktop? your browser? My machine with Win11 at boot with nothing open (and mimimal starup apps) uses <4GB which I think is fairly average. You're using 6GB (?) It's not horrendous to be fair but could likely be improved.

As for your original question, if you're mainly gaming, try the AMD Adrenaline overlay to see RAM usage in games, you'll probably be fine.

Give this a watch -
 
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I watched a fairly in depth YouTube video on this. To summarise, 32gb is now the recommended for gaming.

If that’s what you are doing or plan on doing that is! Else, yeah just look at your current ram usage in task manager.
 
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You could give Razer Cortex > Game Booster option a whirl in the meantime and see what it free up. You should be able to get hold of same Ram you have fairly easily. I found your Memory easily in regards to 8 and 16GB.
 
I would go 64GB ;) It always far better to have more ram then you need then not to have enough ram

Edit : Doesn't look like you have a very high end system so 32GB should be fine
 
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I went from 2x8GB 3600 to 4x8GB 3200, worth it? No idea, not noticed any difference but it was a free upgrade so ..
 
I'd say for most people, 16GB is fine but there's some fringe cases where games like Escape From Tarkov perform much better and don't crash as often if you have 32GB of RAM.

I'd say, this is a poorly optimised game though and any game that needs 32GB is poorly optimised as well, but it is what it is so you could benefit from 32GB depending on what you play.
 
Even as an utterly die hard "16GB is plenty for gaming" type... Yeah, it's definitely starting to move now to 32.

Those sat on 64/all slots etc just for gaming/looking nice are still the subject of my distain but 32 is fair enough now.
 
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