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Should I halve the amount of RAM, to upgrade to a 1050ti

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You should be fine to do this. Just make sure you watch your resources to ensure you dont max out. If you max out your RAM, you could have performance issues in games as it utilizes your drive space as a caching and is much much slower and likely will result in performance issues. 

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Should I halve the amount of RAM, to upgrade to a 1050ti?

 

Right now I have 16gb of ddr4 ram and a 1050.

Should I buy 8gb of ddr4 and get 1050ti?

Im using a R5 1600, and I heard that it uses a lot of memory.

This system is mainly gonna be for gaming and the occasional PS, Ai, some rendering and CAD.

For the games that I wanna play(cs,lol,fortnite,cityskylines and some others), the 1050 looked fine, but now Im having a second opinion .

 

What are your thoughts??

 

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You should be fine to do this. Just make sure you watch your resources to ensure you dont max out. If you max out your RAM, you could have performance issues in games as it utilizes your drive space as a caching and is much much slower and likely will result in performance issues. 

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You should be fine doing this, but I would strongly recommend upgrading your RAM as soon as you can since 8Gb really isn't a lot, especially with Windows 10 background processes and things.

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Personally think it would be better, as you could benefit a lot more by a GPU upgrade.

 

 

I still have 8GB and it seems to be fine. Need to get something a little faster when I upgrade though.

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I'm confused by this question... if you currently have 16GB of DDR4 memory, why do you have to move to 8GB if you upgrade your GPU?

 

Edit: I thought about it and realized you're probably talking about a build in pcpartpicker when you say you "have it." With that said, I currently run a 1050Ti with 8GB of RAM since I'm waiting for a decent deal to upgrade to 24GB. It runs everything great, including CS:GO. For rendering or video editing, I'd recommend the 16GB for sure.

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12 hours ago, asus killer said:

Ryzen does not use more memory, but it does need faster memory, are you sure you're not mixing what you were told?

Yeh, I meant faster mem

 

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