sometimes I would agree with you but in this case he is one of the owners of the local computer/repair shop
popped in to grab something quick
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sometimes I would agree with you but in this case he is one of the owners of the local computer/repair shop
popped in to grab something quick
Well unless the shop is utterly tiny, or just doesn't do much business, then eventually they are going to see a DOA CPU.
I have Chrome as my business browser (firefox for personal) and the amount of tabs I have open at any one time, would give people anxiety
What difference does it matter if it was for his own use or shop use, I am pretty confident that he'll get it from the same supplier as he would for all his other parts...
So what exactly was your point with this anecdotal story?
Exactly and that is why I build my PCs with the future in mind.
32GB will be the new 16GB in 5 years time and so on.
You know 8gb is still fine to game and 16gb is overkill but good.
32gb for gaming is simply unused ram
Rubbish... 32GB if you use for example ms flight sim. 16GB is now the mid range and 32GB is now highend for gaming. Also if you do other things on the system while gaming 16GB is not enough anymore for some situations.
If buying RAM now for a new gaming system and you want it to last next 5 years for sure, you need 32GB.
8GB .. geeze I can destroy that just opening up a browser with all the tabs I use, even 16GB.
8GB is only for basic systems now. web browsing a few tabs and work apps like ms office.
Want to bet ? That's just the laptop on the screenshot below, how many tabs I have open. Desktop is 3 times that last time I checked and all tabs are used and sorted in an order and removed when not used anymore. Then you have people saying 8GB is enough lol.I have Chrome as my business browser (firefox for personal) and the amount of tabs I have open at any one time, would give people anxiety
That is nonsense, 16GB today and for a while now and FarCry 5 gets good gains going from 16GB to 32GB.
Today for the reasonable cost I would go 32GB.
Turn off your system page file and see what really is going on
.. or at least check it for use..Seriously, look
Far Cry 5 Recommended Requirements
- CPU: Intel Core i7-4770 @ 3.4 GHz | AMD Ryzen 5 1600 @ 3.2 GHz or equivalent.
- CPU SPEED: Info.
- RAM: 8 GB.
- OS: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64-bit versions only)
- VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or AMD R9 290X (4GB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or better)
- PIXEL SHADER: 5.0.
I get like plus 80fps using 16gb ram my other rig has 32gb and still performs similar . 8gb is fine.
Meh, if motherboard has 4 DIMM slots, just get 2 x 8 GB modules for now, buy another 2 later if needed (hopefully for less money).
Arguing about RAM quantities is rather silly
I think there is a point to 12GB / 16GB+ VRAM however, if playing at above 4K resolution or if running intensive ray tracing settings.
Arguing about RAM quantities is rather silly
I think there is a point to 12GB / 16GB+ VRAM however, if playing at above 4K resolution or if running intensive ray tracing settings.
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32GB Is more than ample for today.
Unless you have greater requirements like me.
I was going to go for 128GB but that would have been overkill.
Although I still have that option at a later date but I don't think I will need it because 64GB should do me for the next 5 years or more.
Unless you have greater requirements like me.
I was going to go for 128GB but that would have been overkill.
Although I still have that option at a later date but I don't think I will need it because 64GB should do me for the next 5 years or more.
Above is what you said. I pointed out that the game's recommend requirements is just 8GB RAM.
Personally have run the game with 8GB and 16GB and saw no performance gains. It was already running above 60fps in both fully maxed out on a gtx 1070 with core i770 at 1080p.
Again I never said the recommended was 16GB learn to read and sorry I cannot find that reviews I was on about, pretty sure it was on YT but it made me upgrade 4 weeks ago so when I get round to FarCry 5 I will run it with 16Gb then 32GB and we are not talking 1-3FPS it was more at least 10FPS and in other games less or no gains.
Many here will tell you today 16GB min if your building a PC today and it is so cheap you may as well go 32GB so no clue why you are on about 8GB.
Many here will tell you today 16GB min if your building a PC today and it is so cheap you may as well go 32GB so no clue why you are on about 8GB.
The reason I don't stockpile RAM amounts is because you always get faster RAM come out.
So say you stockpile 128GB of DDR4 RAM to use for 5 years. You see, DDR 5 comes out in maybe 2 years with a newer chipset with more features /speed...
I'll accept that you suggested that you prefer 16GB and 32GB for Far Cry 5 and you never said you recommended it.
I'm just pointing out that Far Cry 5 recommends 8GB RAM. And 32GB and above RAM is unused RAM for 99% of games. 16GB is just fine. That's my experience.
Far Cry 5 runs 60 fps plus at 1080p max settings using a Gtx 1070 and i770 with 8GB RAM or 16GB RAM or 32GB RAM. This is from my experience.