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I'm helping a friend who knows nothing about computers with building one and I haven't paid much attention to hardware since I built mine a few years ago. 

 

Is 8Gb of DDR4 RAM enough for an ok gaming/all-around use PC nowadays? is 16Gb pretty much required now? 

 

I have 16Gb of DDR3 and I never max out but RAM is an unknown field of PCs to me. I can find some specific ones myself but I need a little bit of help with the different clock speeds and DDR3 v. DDR4. 

 

Thanks!

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8GB is basically minimum, and you can get by if you're just doing web browsing/light gaming.

 

If you want to do any video editing, rendering, etc be ready to have a giant swap drive or get more RAM.

Want to know which mobo to get?

Spoiler

Choose whatever you need. Any more, you're wasting your money. Any less, and you don't get the features you need.

 

Only you know what you need to do with your computer, so nobody's really qualified to answer this question except for you.

 

chEcK iNsidE sPoilEr fOr a tREat!

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8GB is definitely still usable for gaming. I use Chrome with 20+ tabs and it still feels usable imo, even while gaming simultaneously (though, it might be mainly due to my 6700k).

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Hell, 8 gigs is plenty. Unless you have more then 3 50 chrome tabs open at a time and dont render video while using the pc for anything else it should be fine. Most of my games run fine and i'm still left with a extra 2 gigs free while at max load.

Oh? Well hello there! Notice me please!

        Specs!

 

CPU: A AMD A10 APU

HDD: like, 1 terabyte. 

RAM: 2x4 gig sticks of kingston DDR3

GPU: heheh- the amd A10 APU with radeon graphics oh wow

PSU: What ever is inside this thing

MOBO: same thing as the psu

 

Hah. this is my laptop. spooked.

 

 

 

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8gb is fine, get something you can upgrade extra 8g later.

Personal Desktop":

CPU: Intel Core i7 10700K @5ghz |~| Cooling: bq! Dark Rock Pro 4 |~| MOBO: Gigabyte Z490UD ATX|~| RAM: 16gb DDR4 3333mhzCL16 G.Skill Trident Z |~| GPU: RX 6900XT Sapphire Nitro+ |~| PSU: Corsair TX650M 80Plus Gold |~| Boot:  SSD WD Green M.2 2280 240GB |~| Storage: 1x3TB HDD 7200rpm Seagate Barracuda + SanDisk Ultra 3D 1TB |~| Case: Fractal Design Meshify C Mini |~| Display: Toshiba UL7A 4K/60hz |~| OS: Windows 10 Pro.

Luna, the temporary Desktop:

CPU: AMD R9 7950XT  |~| Cooling: bq! Dark Rock 4 Pro |~| MOBO: Gigabyte Aorus Master |~| RAM: 32G Kingston HyperX |~| GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX (Reference) |~| PSU: Corsair HX1000 80+ Platinum |~| Windows Boot Drive: 2x 512GB (1TB total) Plextor SATA SSD (RAID0 volume) |~| Linux Boot Drive: 500GB Kingston A2000 |~| Storage: 4TB WD Black HDD |~| Case: Cooler Master Silencio S600 |~| Display 1 (leftmost): Eizo (unknown model) 1920x1080 IPS @ 60Hz|~| Display 2 (center): BenQ ZOWIE XL2540 1920x1080 TN @ 240Hz |~| Display 3 (rightmost): Wacom Cintiq Pro 24 3840x2160 IPS @ 60Hz 10-bit |~| OS: Windows 10 Pro (games / art) + Linux (distro: NixOS; programming and daily driver)
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8 is good 16 is better, depends on your budget.  If you can swing 16 now, go for it.  If it pushes your budget too far you will be fine with 8.

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I feel like im just giving an obvious answer but,ddr3 s more affordable but not as good as ddr4.This is a big topic with all the ram price crazyness

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