16 vs 32gb ram

[GeekaWhat]

I will be upgrading my pc as soon as Intel release their skylake architecture, it will be the highest end consumer i7 that u will pick and I wondered what quantity of ddr4 would be recommended for editing in premiere, I'll be editing h.264 4k 30fps footage (which i will have converted from its native codec into h264 in Adobe media encoder). I'll also be doing basic after effects animations in 4k such as intros, overlays, logo animations etc. Is 32gb ram still seen as overkill or is 16gb a good starting point (to upgrade at a later stage)

Thanks,

James

[Castdeath97]

I'd say stick to 2 8GB sticks (pun intended), if you find any trouble upgrade.

[Woody884]

32 is probably a bit overkill, so I would defnitley go for 16, but like Castdeath97 said, go for 2x 8GB Sticks so you could upgrade later if necesarry

[skylane]

I will be upgrading my pc as soon as Intel release their skylake architecture, it will be the highest end consumer i7 that u will pick and I wondered what quantity of ddr4 would be recommended for editing in premiere, I'll be editing h.264 4k 30fps footage (which i will have converted from its native codec into h264 in Adobe media encoder). I'll also be doing basic after effects animations in 4k such as intros, overlays, logo animations etc. Is 32gb ram still seen as overkill or is 16gb a good starting point (to upgrade at a later stage)

Thanks,

James

It depends on what CPU you have. People that say 32GB is overkill for Premiere either don't use it or don't know how Premiere uses resources. If you have a quad CPU then yea you won't use much above 16GB but if you have a higher thread count CPU or multi-CPU then you'll use 32GB easy. 

[Chiobe]

Depending on what I do in Premier, so can I use from 8-28GB of ram.

So go with 32GB or even 64GB if you use heavy effects in After Effect.

[Vozella]

It's really a case of the more the better.