Time to replace 10yr old ram?

[_AJ_]

As a gamer is there ever any reason to want/need more than 16gb of ram? Would 32gb be better or would I see no benefit at all?

 

The only reason I ask is during some games, Ark and GTA5 in particular my game will crash, citing lack of memory, or Windows is running low on memory. close program yes/no.

 

The memory I have now is 16gb Corsair Vengeance LP. It is ten years old though so could this be the problem?

 

Any recommendations on brands and amounts/speed etc are greatly appreciated...

 

AJ

[ShadowCaptain]

5 minutes ago, _AJ_ said:

As a gamer is there ever any reason to want/need more than 16gb of ram? Would 32gb be better or would I see no benefit at all?

 

No benefit,  and I find it hard to believe you are running out of memory, unless there is some sort of issue

 

Ram should not really degrade, perhaps a fresh system install would help clean things up

[arleslie]

If you run *anything* other than the game I would definitely recommend more than 16GB of ram.

I run a few virtual machines in the background (back then each one had about 256mb-756mb or ram) and if I left chrome and skype open overnight I would have memory leaks everywhere.

 

On a fresh boot with the virtual machine going I would be using about 3-4 GB after a day or so it would end up being 6-7 GB as now it cached everything and won't release it. 

Start running GTA5 and it'll shoot up to about 12GB and that's when Windows will start alerting about lack of ram. 

I learned the hard way that if you ignore Windows's alert (even though you still have 4GB of ram left) it'll take matters into it's own hands.

 

 

[_AJ_]

7 minutes ago, ShadowCaptain said:

No benefit,  and I find it hard to believe you are running out of memory, unless there is some sort of issue

What sort of 'issues' should I be looking for? If that's not too wide ranging a question...

 

AJ

[_AJ_]

Oh yes, I usually have Teamspeak open when gaming plus Chrome is  open on my second monitor...

 

AJ

 

[ShadowCaptain]

2 minutes ago, _AJ_ said:

What sort of 'issues' should I be looking for? If that's not too wide ranging a question...

 

AJ

 

Yeah a pretty wide ranging question, perhaps run some benchmarks, mem tests, temp tests etc, see what resources are being used and what issues come up

[PSUGPUCPU]

it might not do anything if your other hardware is not good enough to benefit from 32gb of ram.  but if you have a modern GPU and a good motherboard then you will probably see some improvement. 

[_AJ_]

On 16/02/2016 at 6:58 PM, PSUGPUCPU said:

it might not do anything if your other hardware is not good enough to benefit from 32gb of ram.  but if you have a modern GPU and a good motherboard then you will probably see some improvement. 

I'm running a 980ti on a Maximus Hero VII mobo... 

 

I've since discovered my page file was set to 0 on my OS drive...

[Coaxialgamer]

On 2/16/2016 at 11:47 AM, _AJ_ said:

Oh yes, I usually have Teamspeak open when gaming plus Chrome is  open on my second monitor...

 

AJ

 

How many chrome tabs do you run? 

Chrome uses a lot of ram. 

[PSUGPUCPU]

20 hours ago, _AJ_ said:

I'm running a 980ti on a Maximus Hero VII mobo... 

 

I've since discovered my page file was set to 0 on my OS drive...

well with that kind of equipment then you would probably see some improvment 

[skyways4]

just get new ram m8.