Photoediting!

[snips86x]

For you who are photo-editing, would you recommend 16gb/32gb RAM? I work with RAW files and also to the odd video encoding.

Would there be much difference? Would it be noticeable?

 

[snips86x]

With 8gb already you will notice absolutely no difference at all.

I did exactly the because the ram was so cheap but to be honest its made no difference what so ever to me personally.

I'm moving to a completely different platform (Intel x79) and with 8gb currently, I do notice slowness when it comes to developing via LR4.

 

[snips86x]

But is that down to the RAM? Are you monitoring your usage? LR can stutter a little in places regardless. I edited for years on a box with just 2GB of RAM. I recently upgraded to 12GB of RAM and yes it is better but not a six-fold improvement.

I dont think the limit is solely down to the RAM, CPU also. I'm upgrading my entire system and have RAM limits so trying to work out which would be better. I think I'll go 16 on the safe side as I'm not just photo-editing by encoding also.