Ram upgrades

[ShinKaza]

Hello, I consider myself tech savvy enough to out a PC together and have it run lol,I used to know a lot,but with all the advancements in recent years I have fallen behind, drastically. 

 

My question is, at what point am I hurting myself upgrading ram? I got a prebuilt with an i5 CPU,8gb ram and a GTX 1660 4gb super? I upgraded to one 8gb vengeance stick and two more 8gb ripjaw sticks of ram. Haven't noticed a ton of performance jump,I have heard with an i5 that upgrading ram to a point won't do anything,is this true? If anyone can steer me in the right direction on what I should be upgrading first that would be a huge help.

 

Thanks

[IPD]

what generation of CPU?

 

24GB RAM is probably plenty for most cases.  But the speed limit may be determined by your CPU.  If you were starting from scratch, 2x 16GB sticks is what I'd recommend all day.  But unless you are seeing 80% usage on a regular basis, you probably are find on RAM.

[ShinKaza]

5 hours ago, IPD said:

what generation of CPU?

 

24GB RAM is probably plenty for most cases.  But the speed limit may be determined by your CPU.  If you were starting from scratch, 2x 16GB sticks is what I'd recommend all day.  But unless you are seeing 80% usage on a regular basis, you probably are find on RAM.

I want to say it's a 10th gen. I5 10400F is what it is. 

[IPD]

So assuming 24GB ram, and hopefully at least DDR 2400, RAM isn't the pressing issue.  Do you have an NVME boot drive?

[ShinKaza]

Not too sure what NVME boot drive is just to be honest. 

[IPD]

NVME is the interface--the fastest available.  Currently it is up to generation 2.0. 

[ShinKaza]

Ah ok,well I have no idea lol

[wseaton]

If you're running an SSD of some sort (doesn't matter if it's NVMe or not) you can easily get away with 8GB for doing basic tasks. The jump from 4-8GB is much dramatic than 8-16GB unless you are running very memory intense tasks like video editing, photoshop, some games, etc.

 

Note that browsers like Chrome can easily surpass 8GB of system RAM if you are like me and keep zillions of tabs open. 

 

Still, running a SSD vs conventional drive is the biggest difference. 

[IPD]

You should have clarified those are RAM requirements you are talking about^.

 

Yes, an SSD helps.  But it also has to do with your user habits.  Keeping 50 tabs open will crush a 16 GB system.