Was watching this video came out yesterday
8 GB of RAM ran fine with average fps yes
But compare the 1% and 0.1% lows vs the 12 and 16 GB
On majority of the games, fps drops pretty bad, even for a 9900k and rtx 2080
At to a point where 8 GB of RAM for a budget build is not considered a good choice anymore imo
“But it’s fine for WoW” some would say
Sure yes but no WoW player will be stuck to WoW forever, BfA is an example of that, WoW players will find another game. No one is going to build a PC for WoW only and then just stop using the PC after canceling their sub, even if they say WoW will be their only game
There’s something else going on here besides just amount of RAM. Assuming that’s the same CPU/GPU in all the systems and all their changing is RAM there’s something going on with their systems that we’re not seeing.
You’ll notice the CPU usage is higher on the 8 GB one as well, if I had to guess i’d say that whatever recording software their using is pushing windows + the game + recording stuff + whatever other background processes they have running over 8GB.
More ram is always better, to not use swap.
Plus ram is so cheap.
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Didn’t the memory manufacturers start getting investigated for price fixing? All of a sudden prices dropped, hmmmmmmmmmmm.
I recently put in more ram, going from 12gb to 24gb–having read and believing it couldn’t hurt and would provide a little future proofing for when my needed DDR3 RAM sticks may no longer be available, or may get hard to get, or what have you–and just to be sure there was no bottle-necking there. And, guess what? Before the upgrade I was only ever seeing a max of about 8 gb used. And now? Now I’m seeing 9.6 max. I dunno the whys or wherefore, it’s weird if you ask me. But that’s what I saw, for what it’s worth. Maybe the system no longer sees a need to swap data in and out of ram as much as before, or something like that. That would make sense. It would also be more cost effective and cut the power consumption of the system… Albeit only a little.
It was more profitable for them to pay a fine and price fix than to compete. Scummy if you ask me.
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16GB’s and up for multitasking while gaming … plus you do not want to swap with your SSD while gaming!
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Newegg had my RAM that I already had in my PC from $110 to $70, snatched some up and running 32GB now.
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8GB only for the most budget of budget builds – which is how it’s been for, I dunno, years now?
Now that ram prices have crashed (like cut in half in a year), you can make the case that 8 GB is for extreme budget builds. Can’t believe people were paying $400-$500 for 32 GB.
https://camelcamelcamel.com/G-SKILL-Ripjaws-PC4-25600-Platform-F4-3200C16D-32GVK/product/B0171GQR0C
I feel like maybe the more RAM you have, the more your system will use. I have 32 GB and my system reguarly goes up to 24 gb or so usage. I have no idea why.
/shrug depends on what you have running. I have 16 GB of
RAM and i have to try to break 8GB of usage. Like WoW running, with 10+ tabs in chrome multiple game launchers running etc…