8gb vs 16gb

[Alexinhooooo]

So the simple question is: should I upgrade from 8gb RAM to 16gb?

I game and I do some work, and the mainly reason I'm asking this is because yesterday I had nothing to do and I decided to run shaders on minecraft. Then I noticed that the RAM was being used at its limit, which concerned me. The fps also were stupidly low (around 20).

Tell me if I should upgrade my RAM, viewing all the aspects (work and gaming).

[Wrb]

If you have the money then yeah, your computers looks as if it will last a while and RAM base usage is allways increacing so it might help the future proofing.

[pxnguinPr3]

Quick question; One, do you suffer from chrome tabs syndrome [so many tabs opened it starts crashing and being slow]

Two; What graphics card do you have, as specific as possible please.

 

Once you've awnsered those i should be able to help.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Are you maxing out your RAM capacity? Then yes. If you're mostly sitting at 80% or lower, then no. 

[Bananasplit_00]

i like it because i can have basically unlimited browser tabs, two games, spotify and two instances of Discord running at once without being too close to my cap

[Technomancer__]

if you hit limits yes. which you say you did

but not know. now ram is very expensive and i whould wait some more

[Alexinhooooo]

Just now, pxnguinPr3 said:

Quick question; One, do you suffer from chrome tabs syndrome [so many tabs opened it starts crashing and being slow]

Two; What graphics card do you have, as specific as possible please.

 

Once you've awnsered those i should be able to help.

First question: No, I don't suffer from that syndrome happily;

Second: I have a Asus Strix GTX 1060 6GB OC

[Wrb]

1 minute ago, pxnguinPr3 said:

Quick question; One, do you suffer from chrome tabs syndrome [so many tabs opened it starts crashing and being slow]

Two; What graphics card do you have, as specific as possible please.

 

Once you've awnsered those i should be able to help.

GPU is in the show more bit under the post.

[SeanAngelo]

7 minutes ago, Alexinhooooo said:

So the simple question is: should I upgrade from 8gb RAM to 16gb?

I game and I do some work, and the mainly reason I'm asking this is because yesterday I had nothing to do and I decided to run shaders on minecraft. Then I noticed that the RAM was being used at its limit, which concerned me. The fps also were stupidly low (around 20).

Tell me if I should upgrade my RAM, viewing all the aspects (work and gaming).

to answer your question, yes. just get 16gb. more won't hurt, right?

[JoostinOnline]

When you say it's hitting the limit, do you mean including cached data? Because you don't need more if data is being cached. 

[pxnguinPr3]

1 minute ago, Alexinhooooo said:

First question: No, I don't suffer from that syndrome happily;

Second: I have a Asus Strix GTX 1060 6GB OC

As far as I can tell atleast, the problem may be your VRAM, now im not saying you should get a better Graphics card, but i suggest you try and update drivers. According to the shaders site it uses mainly VRAM.

Also, have you tried setting more ram to minecraft?

[Word shouldnt suffer from lack of ram xD]

[Technomancer__]

4 minutes ago, pxnguinPr3 said:

Two; What graphics card do you have, as specific as possible please.

 

Once you've awnsered those i should be able to help.

you can also look at there profile to see there stuff look https://pcpartpicker.com/list/2PCMxY he had a pcpartpicker list

[pxnguinPr3]

Just now, Ethocreeper said:

you can also look at there profile to see there stuff look https://pcpartpicker.com/list/2PCMxY he had a pcpartpicker list

I saw that, thanks.

[ShoshinUK]

I have noticed that several games I play inc VR App's now go over 8GB RAM use - on their own let alone running anything else same time.

 

16GB RAM and SSD is advised for the full range of gaming inc VR in my opinion.

[Alexinhooooo]

2 minutes ago, pxnguinPr3 said:

As far as I can tell atleast, the problem may be your VRAM, now im not saying you should get a better Graphics card, but i suggest you try and update drivers. According to the shaders site it uses mainly VRAM.

Also, have you tried setting more ram to minecraft?

[Word shouldnt suffer from lack of ram xD]

I have like 4GB for Minecraft and it doesn't even use 2GB. The VRAM isn't obviously the problem, because the GPU usage is less than 30% on Minecraft so yeah. I don't even play Minecraft, but I decided to try shaders and I thought that it was very weird hitting ( ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ) only 20 fps.

[pxnguinPr3]

Just now, Alexinhooooo said:

I have like 4GB for Minecraft and it doesn't even use 2GB. The VRAM isn't obviously the problem, because the GPU usage is less than 30% on Minecraft so yeah. I don't even play Minecraft, but I decided to try shaders and I thought that it was very weird hitting ( ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ) only 20 fps.

VRAM isnt included on the task manager, Thats just the Graphics chip (so to say) not the actual ram.

[Alexinhooooo]

Just now, pxnguinPr3 said:

VRAM isnt included on the task manager, Thats just the Graphics chip (so to say) not the actual ram.

I saw that in the ASUS GPU TweekII app so it's right I think.

[Technomancer__]

Just now, Alexinhooooo said:

I saw that in the ASUS GPU TweekII app so it's right I think.

that doesnt show how much vram is used it shows how much vram is addressed

[Alexinhooooo]

Just now, Ethocreeper said:

that doesnt show how much vram is used it shows how much vram is addressed

Oh my god I'm so stupid lmao. I'm going to run MSI Afterburner and see how much VRAM is being used then.

[pxnguinPr3]

Just now, Alexinhooooo said:

I saw that in the ASUS GPU TweekII app so it's right I think.

To be honest, and this is my final shot, it might be [this is quite unlikely] but it is possible that its your processor, or your graphics card thats the issue, thats certainly the case when i try to run shaders with minecraft

[pxnguinPr3]

Just now, Alexinhooooo said:

Oh my god I'm so stupid lmao. I'm going to run MSI Afterburner and see how much VRAM is being used then.

I might be wrong but i dont think afterburner shows it either [again, could be wrong]

[Technomancer__]

Just now, Ethocreeper said:

that doesnt show how much vram is used it shows how much vram is addressed

for example a game can address all the vram on a rx 580 8gb and it will look like it uses 8gb of vram, but when you test a 580 4gb it also addresses all the vram but the performance is the same

[Technomancer__]

2 minutes ago, Alexinhooooo said:

Oh my god I'm so stupid lmao. I'm going to run MSI Afterburner and see how much VRAM is being used then.

no software can show you how much vram is used

[Technomancer__]

2 minutes ago, pxnguinPr3 said:

To be honest, and this is my final shot, it might be [this is quite unlikely] but it is possible that its your processor, or your graphics card thats the issue, thats certainly the case when i try to run shaders with minecraft

i remember getting 100fps with a 32 bit core duo machine and a gt 730 4 years ago

[Alexinhooooo]

3 minutes ago, Ethocreeper said:

i remember getting 100fps with a 32 bit core duo machine and a gt 730 4 years ago

Here's the RAM usage http://prntscr.com/fa1p88