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8gb is NOT enough for gaming (in specific scenarios)

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Go to solution Solved by Skiiwee29,

16gb is kind of the recommended for anything, and has been for at least the last year or so. 8gb is the minimum to get by for gaming. 

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25 minutes ago, 2SPOOKY4ME said:

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Thank you. All you had to say was that you weren't just inventing the number. I know that games can use 8GB or more.

21 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Actually they can be related, if you run out of VRAM the next place the GPU dumps stuff is on the system memory...

That's a good point, but the real problem is him running out of VRAM.

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24 minutes ago, JoostinOnline said:

Thank you. All you had to say was that you weren't just inventing the number. I know that games can use 8GB or more.

Numbers were already provided and explained on the first reply. 

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