Is 8gb enough?

[GenialGiraffe]

I recently purchased 8gb of ram and I was wondering what games would I be unable to play. I have an RX 480 4gb and an i5-6500 so what situations would I run into lack of ram problems?

[RezChi]

Would be plenty

[shadowbyte]

depends on how much stuff you have open in the background

if you're like me, and have chrome, spotify, cam, origin, steam, uplay, skype, and more shit open while gaming, then get 16gb.

If you close all programs before loading up a game, 8gb is fine.

 

But if you love Just Cause 3, get 16. I noticed significant performance increases when I upgraded to 16 on my old rig

[MANIDY inc]

lol even with 4gb you can run like 90% of games 

 

but yes 8gb is all need 

[Guest]

Should be fine unless you run tons of stuff in the background.

[GenialGiraffe]

Thanks for all the help! I'll just have to remember to close all other programs besides whatever game I happen to be playing. 

[manikyath]

8GB is plenty for now, in some cases you may need to keep an eye out for background stuff, but i defenately wont tell you to run out and go get 16GB ram yesterday.

[Legolessed]

18 minutes ago, GenialGiraffe said:

I recently purchased 8gb of ram and I was wondering what games would I be unable to play. I have an RX 480 4gb and an i5-6500 so what situations would I run into lack of ram problems?

I use daily to have 8gb and games performed fine. I have 10 now and only notice a couple fps higher than 8. The gain of having more ram is exponentially worse as you get higher up. 2 to 4 gigs of ram is huge. 4 to 8 I should a pretty good increase and 8 to 16 I should an ok increase and then any more than that for gaming at 1080p isnt nessesary.

[aisle9]

23 minutes ago, GenialGiraffe said:

I recently purchased 8gb of ram and I was wondering what games would I be unable to play. I have an RX 480 4gb and an i5-6500 so what situations would I run into lack of ram problems?

There are very few games that will eat up that much RAM by themselves. If you want to future proof at 16GB, go for it, but you don't need to.

[Brian McKee]

8gb is annoying and you'll really want to upgrade in not much time. If you do literally anything besides game you will want 16 gigs at some point.