RAM! for gaming

[Raiden_312]

Hi guys i am building a gaming pc, its mostly for gaming. 

and i was wondering how much ram is good. yes i am noob

 

i am thinking to get the Corsair DOMINATOR Platinum Series 32GB

but cannt help not to look at the 16GB model as it is half the price and i can spend the money on something better, is it an over kill or it will be useful in the future?

 

down below is my build. which i will ordering soon once i am 100% sure of everything.

 

CPU Intel Core i7-5930K Haswell-E 6 core

 

GPU EVGA GTX 980 ( Two of them )

 

Mother Board: ASUS RAMPAGE V EXTREME, Extended ATX x99 Motherboard , LGA 2011-V3 Socket, DDR4 

 

RAM : Corsair DOMINATOR® Platinum Series 32GB DDR4

 

Power Supply: Corsair Professional Series 860 Watt Digital ATX/EPS AX860i ( heard mixed reviews of it)

 

Cooling: corsair hydro series H100i

 

Blue-ray: LG 16X

 

Hard drive: Samsung 840 EVO 1TB + Seagate 4TB solid state Hybrid 

 

Finally case" Corsair Obsidian 750D

 

Total comes to $ 4127 (USD)

 

 

[TheKDub]

Don't bother with 32GB, hell you can get away just fine with 8GB, though people seem to be moving closer towards 16GB being the new "standard"

 

Also, don't bother with hybrid drives, its not worth it, just go for a normal SSD and a normal HDD, hybrid drives just add another point of failure.

[Fate]

If it's for gaming, get a 4790k (X99 for gaming is silly), 16GB ram (8GB is fine, but 16GB is starting to become the standard these days for gaming), and a nice 1440p display (please don't get two 980's for 1080p). If you want to save a lot of money for relatively similar performance you can get two 290x's instead, but they'll consume a lot more power (you're spending $4k on a rig, shouldn't matter) and put out more heat. 

[gilm0re3]

If you're only gaming, just go with an i5 4690k, 8bs of solid ram, a 970 (for single monitor 1080p gaming), solid 500-600 watt power supply, 256-1tb ssd (depending on your budget, but the closer you get to 1tb of ssd storage the more money you take away from your gfx card and your overall budget), decent motherboard (Asus and Gigabyte are good choices), and a large hdd for your games (something like a WD black 2tb).

[dragoon20005]

even for X99 platform 16GB is enough for most cases

 

but pick a cheaper brand of RAM instead of the Dominators

[gilm0re3]

Here's a more conservative gaming oriented pc: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/4tTsWZ

[manzir]

save money on processor RAM and motherboard 

 

Use that to get the upcoming Acer 27" 120 Hz IPS monitor.

 

U want real advice? don't spend that amount of money on electronics...around 2k can easily get you an excellent gaming rig. The other half put in a investment account. PLEASE think ahead...think of the future... two years from now you will be upset to see all the new processors and DDR4, GPU's coming out and would have the urge to change again... 

 

May be its your hard earned money...may be your parents covering it for you.... it dose not mean you need to go all out... save some funds for the days ahead

[gilm0re3]

And here's a build that's a bit more "futureproof" or at least has quite a bit more legroom: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/T4f6Lk