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Doing a couple builds for my parents and i was thinking 8gb ram should still be enough right? Useing dual 4gb sticks for dual-channel. 

The one pc plays sims 4, and board games, surfs facebook and youtube, and streams netflix and amazon, not exactly a power user, while the other plays movies and streams to the tv, or plays card games and browses facebook and youtube. (Both pcs occasionally used for minecraft when the grandkids are visiting). As sim4 is the heaviest load it will have 8gb should still be lots right?

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yeah

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Yeah it's fine for that.

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Yeah, you can even get away with 8GB with major games these days as long as you're not trying to do much of anything else while playing. 

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8GB is plenty in that use case, definitely. You really only need 16GB+ for modern premier titles, and even then you'll rarely see the full 16GB being used, at least in my experience thus far. 

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20 minutes ago, trolouce said:

Doing a couple builds for my parents and i was thinking 8gb ram should still be enough right? Useing dual 4gb sticks for dual-channel. 

The one pc plays sims 4, and board games, surfs facebook and youtube, and streams netflix and amazon, not exactly a power user, while the other plays movies and streams to the tv, or plays card games and browses facebook and youtube. (Both pcs occasionally used for minecraft when the grandkids are visiting). As sim4 is the heaviest load it will have 8gb should still be lots right?

Sims 4... I just checked the 'requirements' and it says "2gb of Ram and Windows XP". Thanks for the OP for making me feel old! ?

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43 minutes ago, jmack said:

Sims 4... I just checked the 'requirements' and it says "2gb of Ram and Windows XP". Thanks for the OP for making me feel old! ?

Lmao omg does it really? Hahahahaha.

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