16GB Ram?

[Terrifis]

Hey! Just out of curiosity, do any of you know of any games that really benifit from 16GB of Ram over 8GB? I'm thinking of upgrading I don't know if I can justify it though because from what I've seen none of my 170 Steam games require more than 6 Let alone 16!

[VTF5252]

Running minecraft with a 512 or higher resolution texture pack. Or modded MC+server really eats ram.

[xDanielxOossiex]

Never can go wrong with more RAM. 

I would do it as RAM is so cheap these days.

[Terrifis]

Just now, NTF5252 said:

Running minecraft with a 512 or higher resolution texture pack. Or modded MC+server really eats ram.

God minecraft is a ridiculous game. My £650 PC Barely runs it Max Settings 60fps hahaha

[Terrifis]

Just now, xDanielxOossiex said:

Never can go wrong with more RAM. 

I would do it as RAM is so cheap these days.

It would probably help with my rendering as well :0

[yannickverc]

Games don't really matter. It's what you do while gaming. I, for example, have countless chrome tabs open with livestreams, temp monitoring software etc etc, I'm usually hovering around 8-9 gb used ram, depending on the game

[VTF5252]

Just now, Terrifis said:

God minecraft is a ridiculous game. My £650 PC Barely runs it Max Settings 60fps hahaha

Ever try running the ftb unlimited or other huge mod pack. It gets so bad fast.

[Zach Is Kill]

Honestly in my opinion, there are very few games that benefit from 16GB of RAM. But as someone said above, running a lot of things at once could use a bit more. But if you're running games alone, you shouldn't have to many problems. Take for example: Planetary Annihilation, it runs better on 16GB of RAM, but that's because it was coded very sloppily and etc. But yeah haha

[Terrifis]

Just now, yannickverc said:

Games don't really matter. It's what you do while gaming. I, for example, have countless chrome tabs open with livestreams, temp monitoring software etc etc, I'm usually hovering around 8-9 gb used ram, depending on the game

Normally I'm just gaming, the most I'll ever have on in the background is a movie/podcast/YouTube/Facebook... you think I'd need the extra Ram?

[don_svetlio]

I don't know of many games that would benefit from 16GB of RAM. Hell, I've had 30 Tabs of Chome open and run CS:GO and I STILL only got to 7GB of used memory. (was pushing it to see the limit). Max I've seen a game use is 3-4GB for itself

[yannickverc]

Just now, Terrifis said:

Normally I'm just gaming, the most I'll ever have on in the background is a movie/podcast/YouTube/Facebook... you think I'd need the extra Ram?

If you use firefox there won't be a problem. Chrome on the other hand eats endless ram... 

[Terrifis]

Just now, yannickverc said:

If you use firefox there won't be a problem. Chrome on the other hand eats endless ram... 

I prefer Chrome, in a lot of instances it's quite a bit faster and the way it integrates with YouTube and stuff is pretty cool. I get what you mean with the ram usage though!

[don_svetlio]

Just now, Terrifis said:

I prefer Chrome, in a lot of instances it's quite a bit faster and the way it integrates with YouTube and stuff is pretty cool. I get what you mean with the ram usage though!

I've actually found Chrome to be slower. Been swapping them regularly during the past 3 months, definitely sticking with Firefox

[evilarceus]

For multitasking, it could help. You can kinda prepare for the future.

(inb4 32GB minimum requirements)

[yannickverc]

Just now, Terrifis said:

I prefer Chrome, in a lot of instances it's quite a bit faster and the way it integrates with YouTube and stuff is pretty cool. I get what you mean with the ram usage though!

I'd show you my ram usage but I'm not near my PC right now. All in all I'd go for 16gb. Why? Multiple reasons. Ram's getting really cheap. (heck i bought 16 gigs of 1866mhz ram for 150 bucks) It's nice to 'brag' about, for as far you can nowadays. With 16gb you'll be 100% sure you'll have enough.