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So I was testing a 6gb kit and I kept running out of memory running 4 chrome tabs and WoW's new expansion. I pUT my 16Gb kit back in and was on the edge of 8gb with teamspeak open. I'm thinking 16gb is the new 8gb.

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So I was testing a 6gb kit and I kept running out of memory running 4 chrome tabs and WoW's new expansion. I pUT my 16Gb kit back in and was on the edge of 8gb with teamspeak open. I'm thinking 16gb is the new 8gb.

It depends what you're running in the background. 

 

I'm still using 8gb of Ram with 6+ chrome tabs, iTunes, and whatever game I happen to be playing (BF3, AW, Arkham Origins, Dota, borderlands, etc...)  and still doing just fine on Ram. 

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Don't use Chrome, use Firefox.

 

I never exceed 6GB of RAM.  Running ArcheAge/BF4 + Teamspeak/Ventrillo/Skype + Web Browsing(firefox) + HWiNFO + MSI Afterburner + RTSS/FRAPS + iTunes + Netflix/Movie

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Depends what you do really. I don't have anything open while gaming anyways (except teamspeak and the usual stuff) and I never ran out of memory with 8GB. Not even close.

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I still don't max 8 and I acutally multitask...

Me neither, i never hit over 6..

 

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I'm still using 4GB.. But anyways, I'm not a huge gamer.

But yes, for high end multitasking machine, 16 GB is what you should go for.

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I'm not disagreeing with you, but my experience is while using Windows for 5mins to 5 hours, I use about 1.4GB-2.2GB (5-10 Multiple Tabs+TS)

Then.....Games push me to above 4-6GB but never have I been that close to 8GB used.

Then again I don't leave a lot open when I'm gaming.

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 new crap consoles have 8g so game devs will make you max out

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chrome uses soOOO much ram 6.1GB of ram in total being used. c586130b9a.png

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i have maxed out 8gbs like twice, ever... both times were minecraft, hosting a 6 person skype call, ~7 chrome tabs with recording with fraps.

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i have maxed out 8gbs like twice, ever... both times were minecraft, hosting a 6 person skype call, ~7 chrome tabs with recording with fraps.

Yeah Minecraft is the only game that used all of my ram also.

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we have school computers with I5s/ 16 gigs of ram, and gt 640s. 

 

and we also have a lab of ancient computers running win 7 on 1 gig. and they run chrome, so... my pc only chrome open it uses about 3.1 gigs. 

 

the thing about ram, you WANT to use it all. the more that is in your ram, the faster and snappier your system will feel. thats why android always run really high ram usage, it just helps the system. 

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Everyone who is using a ton of RAM has one thing in common: Chrome.  Switch to Firefox and watch your RAM usage dwindle.

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chrome is a memory hog compared to firefox it seems, with just my usual tabs open and skype..im floating around 6.6gb

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It depends what you're running in the background. 

 

I'm still using 8gb of Ram with 6+ chrome tabs, iTunes, and whatever game I happen to be playing (BF3, AW, Arkham Origins, Dota, borderlands, etc...)  and still doing just fine on Ram. 

 

 

Don't use Chrome, use Firefox.

 

I never exceed 6GB of RAM.  Running ArcheAge/BF4 + Teamspeak/Ventrillo/Skype + Web Browsing(firefox) + HWiNFO + MSI Afterburner + RTSS/FRAPS + iTunes + Netflix/Movie

 

 

Depends what you do really. I don't have anything open while gaming anyways (except teamspeak and the usual stuff) and I never ran out of memory with 8GB. Not even close.

 

 

Me neither, i never hit over 6..

 

if you have 8GB or ram, your system will never fill out all of the ram.  it automatically starts offloading onto your OS drive at a certain point.  If it filled out your full ram capacity, the system would crash the instant it needs more ram than you have.

 

simple test was when I went from 8gb of ram to 16 on my work rig.  same programs open, doing same operations, I'd max out at around 6, maybe 6.5.  once upgraded, ram usage jumped up to 10-12, sometimes more (multiple instances of various cad software, along with the typical work stuff open).  so just cause you never see a full 8 gb saturated on your rig with 8 gb or ram, doesn't mean you can't use more

 

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also not saying that this is absolutely the case.  it could very well be that you're really only using 6GB

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if you have 8GB or ram, your system will never fill out all of the ram.  it automatically starts offloading onto your OS drive at a certain point.  If it filled out your full ram capacity, the system would crash the instant it needs more ram than you have.

 

simple test was when I went from 8gb of ram to 16 on my work rig.  same programs open, doing same operations, I'd max out at around 6, maybe 6.5.  once upgraded, ram usage jumped up to 10-12, sometimes more (multiple instances of various cad software, along with the typical work stuff open).  so just cause you never see a full 8 gb saturated on your rig with 8 gb or ram, doesn't mean you can't use more

If that was the case, we'd be able too see it in performance aswell ;)

 

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I personally run 12GB(2x4, 2x2) and I have never filled it up. Playing Battlefield 4, having 5 firefox tabs open, having TS open and listening to some music and I am still at between 6 and 2 free GB. So I would say 16GB is not a must have, but I think that it is the safe way to go.

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So I was testing a 6gb kit and I kept running out of memory running 4 chrome tabs and WoW's new expansion. I pUT my 16Gb kit back in and was on the edge of 8gb with teamspeak open. I'm thinking 16gb is the new 8gb.

I've said this at the start of 2013 lol

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If that was the case, we'd be able too see it in performance aswell ;)

 

depends on what you're doing...  if most of your ram is being bloated with chrome tabs, you wouldn't necessarily see the difference, especially if you have a good ssd

 

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also not saying that this is absolutely the case.  it could very well be that you're really only using 6GB

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if you have 8GB or ram, your system will never fill out all of the ram.  it automatically starts offloading onto your OS drive at a certain point.  If it filled out your full ram capacity, the system would crash the instant it needs more ram than you have.

 

simple test was when I went from 8gb of ram to 16 on my work rig.  same programs open, doing same operations, I'd max out at around 6, maybe 6.5.  once upgraded, ram usage jumped up to 10-12, sometimes more (multiple instances of various cad software, along with the typical work stuff open).  so just cause you never see a full 8 gb saturated on your rig with 8 gb or ram, doesn't mean you can't use more

are you talking about ram 'in use" or "committed?"

 

committed ram means nothing because modern OS are designed to allocate as much ram as possible to improve application performance. So a lot of the memory committed doesn't matter and can be freely overwritten with no issue.

 

ram in use is what actually matters. That is the amount being used by applications. To get performance benefits you would need over 8GB of ram in use. But in normal usage ram won't axceed that UNLESS someone uses chrome.

 

tl;dr Chrome is a POS. 

Don't need more than 8GB of ram unless you render or use chrome. 

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