16GB Ram vs 32GB

[Omie]

I was wondering if it's worth it to get 32GB Ram over 16GB. 

 

Previously I've had only 8GB but now it seems that people are recommending 16GB. Over time, will this likely change to 32GB?

 

I found some good 16GB Ram that would match my red/black build and is also 3200Mhz with a Cas of 15-15-15-35.

 

https://m.newegg.com/Product/Index?itemNumber=N82E16820232233

[rn8686]

What do you use your PC for? If just gaming, 16Gb is more than enough (8Gb is fine, but 16 is nice to have). 

[Creed1]

It depends on the use

[AlwaysFSX]

Unless you're doing heavy rendering you won't need 32 GB of RAM.

[Omie]

4 minutes ago, rn8686 said:

What do you use your PC for? If just gaming, 16Gb is more than enough (8Gb is fine, but 16 is nice to have). 

I'm just doing gaming. Maybe sometimes streaming but that's rarely.

[Just Monika]

16GB is a very healthy amount of RAM to the point where it's effectively "unlimited RAM" for gaming/streaming purposes (ie: you never have to monitor your RAM usage - go wild with it). You won't need anything more probably for the lifetime of your PC. I have 16 GB RAM myself and the most I've ever seen used in my system at once was ~10GB playing various games with several Firefox tabs open (about 10-20).

[SCHISCHKA]

you likely wont need more ram until you upgrade your GPU. watch your page faults. if there are excessive swapping then upgrade otherwise save your money

[TheKDub]

11 minutes ago, Omie said:

I was wondering if it's worth it to get 32GB Ram over 16GB. 

 

Previously I've had only 8GB but now it seems that people are recommending 16GB. Over time, will this likely change to 32GB?

 

I found some good 16GB Ram that would match my red/black build and is also 3200Mhz with a Cas of 15-15-15-35.

 

https://m.newegg.com/Product/Index?itemNumber=N82E16820232233

 

I'd recommend going with 16GB, and leaving room for a future upgrade to 32GB if you ever decide 16GB isn't enough.

[ARikozuM]

I'd get 16GB since some games that I play use 8-10GB of RAM.

[m0k]

if you dont have a NEED to upgrade...then dont upgrade at all

 

if you have some money to spend on upgrades. 16gb is more than enough. considering you didnt even need it from my previous question

[rn8686]

10 minutes ago, Omie said:

I'm just doing gaming. Maybe sometimes streaming but that's rarely.

16Gb will be plenty then.