Ram upgrade

[f1xzor]

Hey, so recently I found myself working on a project in After Effects and found that my ram capacity is not enough.

I working a lot with After Effects and I ran into a situation that my 8gb of ram is not enough for the things that I do.

I read a lot of articles, and watching youtube video about that 8/16gb of ram is not enough for massive video editing or visual effects creation.

I thought to get 32gb of ram, It would be great for my Premiere/After Effects + Lightroom. I found myself that I can't ran a preview on full quality, and even when I'm on low quality the preview itself still laggs or dropping fps.

Please suggest me some ram capacity, or an answer at least, Thank you!

OH! and this is my current pc specs:

 

CPU: i7 6700k (4Ghz, didn't OC because I need to upgrade my air cooling as well )

Mobo: Gigabyte Z170 HD3

Ram: 8GB HyperX Fury 2400Mhz (1 stick)

GPU: Asus 1060 6gb Strix

PSU: CoolerMaster 500w

HDD: WD 1TB

*(Looking for upgrading to an SSD as well)

CPU Cooler: CoolerMaster Hyper T2 (Not the best cooling but, you get for what you paying for).

 

[Jon Jon]

Adobe After Effects is a beast.

 

To be honest, 16GB of RAM is an entry level for using that content creation software.

 

Most people running Adobe After Effects recommend 64GB, as it will gobble up as much RAM as it needs which scales with the complexity of the project.

 

I also see that you are only running a hard drive. You absolutely should be looking into an SSD for the faster reads/writes as well.

 

Here is a good read on comparing different systems:

 

https://www.pugetsystems.com/recommended/Recommended-Systems-for-Adobe-After-Effects-CC-144/Hardware-Recommendations

 

That article will explain to you what you need and why you need it.

 

I personally put together a 4K Content Creation PC for one of my friends centered around a Ryzen 7 2700X, 16GB DDR4 3200, a 512GB Samsung 970Pro NVME Drive and a Geforce GTX 1060. Even that is considered pretty low end for Adobe After Affects, but it suits his needs and is stable. He will add more RAM, storage, and upgrade to Zen 3 when it arrives as needed.

[f1xzor]

9 hours ago, Jon Jon said:

Adobe After Effects is a beast.

 

To be honest, 16GB of RAM is an entry level for using that content creation software.

 

Most people running Adobe After Effects recommend 64GB, as it will gobble up as much RAM as it needs which scales with the complexity of the project.

 

I also see that you are only running a hard drive. You absolutely should be looking into an SSD for the faster reads/writes as well.

 

Here is a good read on comparing different systems:

 

https://www.pugetsystems.com/recommended/Recommended-Systems-for-Adobe-After-Effects-CC-144/Hardware-Recommendations

 

That article will explain to you what you need and why you need it.

 

I personally put together a 4K Content Creation PC for one of my friends centered around a Ryzen 7 2700X, 16GB DDR4 3200, a 512GB Samsung 970Pro NVME Drive and a Geforce GTX 1060. Even that is considered pretty low end for Adobe After Affects, but it suits his needs and is stable. He will add more RAM, storage, and upgrade to Zen 3 when it arrives as needed.

Thanks for the advice

[f1xzor]

15 hours ago, Jon Jon said:

Adobe After Effects is a beast.

 

To be honest, 16GB of RAM is an entry level for using that content creation software.

 

Most people running Adobe After Effects recommend 64GB, as it will gobble up as much RAM as it needs which scales with the complexity of the project.

 

I also see that you are only running a hard drive. You absolutely should be looking into an SSD for the faster reads/writes as well.

 

Here is a good read on comparing different systems:

 

https://www.pugetsystems.com/recommended/Recommended-Systems-for-Adobe-After-Effects-CC-144/Hardware-Recommendations

 

That article will explain to you what you need and why you need it.

 

I personally put together a 4K Content Creation PC for one of my friends centered around a Ryzen 7 2700X, 16GB DDR4 3200, a 512GB Samsung 970Pro NVME Drive and a Geforce GTX 1060. Even that is considered pretty low end for Adobe After Affects, but it suits his needs and is stable. He will add more RAM, storage, and upgrade to Zen 3 when it arrives as needed.

What do you think about the Crucial MX500 250GB SSD? and their ram sticks? they have also nice prices

[Jon Jon]

4 hours ago, flips2K said:

What do you think about the Crucial MX500 250GB SSD? and their ram sticks? they have also nice prices

I like Crucial, but I am a bit of a Samsung fanboy.

They really make some of the best solid state drives, including NVME M.2. I love my 960 EVO and my friend loves his 970 PRO.

They are some of the fastest drives on the market too.

 

Keep in mind, any move you make now will be an improvement.

 

If budget is a concern, I would get a 16GB RAM Kit along with a PCI-E M.2 Drive to use for OS, After Effects, and Project Data.

 

Your motherboard looks top support one:

 

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-Z170-HD3-rev-10#ov

 

Here are some ideas:

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/y9rcCJ/corsair-memory-cmk16gx4m2a2400c16

 

I use Corsair LPX and have zero issues with them. I would point you to faster RAM, but you already have a 2400mhz stick in your system, and I'd rather you leave it in there, run the Corsair, and get yourself up to 24GB of RAM.

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/dkHRsY/samsung-970-evo-250gb-m2-2280-solid-state-drive-mz-v7e250bw

 

 

It's Samsung and it's 250GB for $100~.

 

You could reinstall windows and run Adobe and put your project data on here, and it'll run well.

 

It's not the cheapest of an upgrade, but for under $300, you will be doing A LOT better with After Effects.