When is 32GB ram used

[Ramontes]

I'm currently planning on adding more ram to my system 16gb total. However this will fill all 4 of my slots I use 7~ gb on average when using the computer normally but also render videos often. I know that editing/rendering makes use of larger amount of ram. I do some light editing and plenty rendering. so my questions are when is there a situation when 32gb of ram is essential? (curious) and should i opt for 16 gigs in 8b sticks to leave room for 32gb or just add another 2 sticks and call it a day

[minibois]

Heavy rendering, like a million tabs on Google Chrome

[Jakeman797]

Not really. Its usually beneficial for editing and rendering.

Chrome also eats away at ram

[Lotus]

Basically never. Even games hardly go over 4GB, with the newest ones never going over 8GB (I'm talkting total usage, not just that individual game).

 

7GB average for normal use sounds super fishy to me. Sounds like you've got a ton of malware installed. Even with the most demanding games, it'd take multi-tasking PLUS gaming to reach that amount.

[DudeWazap]

I don't believe you will actually utilize all 32GB of Ram until you are video rendering or editing. For gaming 16GB is more than enough.

[Glenwing]

Video editing eats RAM. I easily max out 16GB and I don't even do really heavy projects.

Gaming on the other hand really isn't very RAM intensive at all.

[iamdarkyoshi]

when is it used? the same time that massive amounts of CPU are often used: Poorly optimized programs. Notice how big of a leap smartphone specs have had lately?

[User1868]

There are some nice graphs here:

[ThE_MarD]

Heyyo,

Not really. Its usually beneficial for editing and rendering.

Chrome also eats away at ram

Chrome only eats away at RAM if there's a boatload of spare RAM. Try ripping all but one stick out of your system and see if your memory useage still spikes heavily and stays there. I'm pretty sure Chrome goes back to offloading and stops preloading stuff as well.

[blu4]

Running VM's and video editing, otherwise 8GB in games is plenty enough.

[Ramontes]

its not onl for gaming, and maybe it is malware i check task manager and im hitting 6-7gb average daily use however I dont check ram usage while gaming 

[hogfather]

hmmmm

 

game dont take much ram, but sure, rendering videos etc can be quite a RAM intensive exercise.  While i;m coding away I have two instances of Eclipse open, with various instances of webservers running.  A DB on top of that and i find myself running out when im on 16gb... 32GB is handy when coding and running lots of stuff together