Ram question.

[slay english]

Is 8gb enough for an office/web browsing pc? I currently have 8 gb in my gaming rig and I'm curious if I should opt for 16 gb with my upcoming office build for my parents?

[Amazingasian]

For an office/web browsing only pc you could have 4 gigs and still be okay.

[Senzelian]

8GB is by far enough. You probably could even get away with 4GB.
But 8GB is recommended. Everything above is unnecessary.

[pants18]

Will be more than enough for day to day use

[slay english]

Well I had all these people last night saying I should go with 1 8gb stick so I can add more while my chosen board had 4 slots. I was kinda baffled, 

[Chujitsu]

if you plan to update in the future  then yes 1 stick of 8 gb is fine.  But personally i'd take  of 2 x 4gb of ram so you can take advantage of dual channel. 

[dalomo]

I'll have to disagree with people saying 4GB is enough for office work. I often max out 8GB while having a couple excel sheets open and a few tabs in chrome open. which really slows down working in excel. So i'd say that you should never go under 8GB unless doing an extreme budget build for low res gaming.

[slay english]

if you plan to update in the future  then yes 1 stick of 8 gb is fine.  But personally i'd take  of 2 x 4gb of ram so you can take advantage of dual channel. 

That is What i said.

[DarkSmith2]

depends on what "office applications" they are willing to run.