what does anyone ever need 32gigs of RAM for? is it some special appliacation like animating/rendering/solving advanced math problems/RAMdisk? even in my rendering machine here benchmarks showed barely any difference between 8 gigs and 16 gigs, certainly not enough of a difference to warrant spending money, and I mostly edit 4k footage with 80 chrome tabs running in the background.
also, the amount of 1 post posters seems almost cursed![]()
Just in this one example, when I'm playing RDR2 while having some chrome tabs open I'm using up almost 16 Gb of RAM. I just got this laptop recently so I invested in long term gains to avoid future upgrades for as long as possible. I am quite surprised, I was sure 16 GB RAM is enough for gaming nowadays, looks like not for all games.
Just in this one example, when I'm playing RDR2 while having some chrome tabs open I'm using up almost 16 Gb of RAM. I just got this laptop recently so I invested in long term gains to avoid future upgrades for as long as possible. I am quite surprised, I was sure 16 GB RAM is enough for gaming nowadays, looks like not for all games.
To be fair, Chrome eats up pretty much every bit of memory that it can find. I've got about 30 tabs open in Opera (basically Chrome without the Google) and a few other minor programs open (PuTTY, foobar2000, Notepad) and the Task Manager shows that 15.8 GB of memory are in use. I'm not even running a game! Windows eats up a lot of memory, too.
Anyway, it doesn't matter if we need 16 GB or 32 GB of memory now. I built for the future with 64 GB of memory. My last high-end gaming PC lasted for just over 10 years and I expect to get at least 5-6 out of this one!
i7-8086K @ 5.3GHz
32GB DDR4-3333 cas 14
1080Ti @ 2560x1600
Win 10 64bit
Samsung 970 EVO 2TB NVMe
DX12 AI Benchmark: 6.83 seconds
DX12 GS AI Benchmark: 31.06 seconds
Multiple apps / AV / firewall etc running in the background
I’ll check tonight, I still have the same config but the game has radically changed with a lot of new content so there is probably some inefficient checks in there. I will not be surprised if mine has dropped also.Not sure why this is.
I’ll check tonight
Now 15.97From 2018
i7-4790 @ 3.6 GHz
GTX 1060 6 GB
RAM 16 GB DDR3 1600 MHz
14.96s