would a 16gb of ram be overkill?

[o730b]

i'm looking forward to upgrading my weak laptop ryzen 3 3250u warmachine, but i'm having a dilemma on what ram size do i choose because i want it to be cost efficient.

8gb is enough i think for my specs and games it's capable to run, but i might need some wiggle room cus the integrated gpu (or apu idk) will use 2gb of the ram as it's vram, that decreases my ram size down to 6gb (more like 5. gb).

then again i don't think i would need a 16gb of ram because the games that my cpu i think would be capable to run and be playable is indie games and ps3 era games.

what do you guys think?

thanks in advance.

[secuda]

Nah 16gb is standard today, you better of spending those money on space or cpu

[Xautos]

a few years ago some were suggesting 8gb of ram as a the default but i said that wasn't good enough any more and those users thought they knew better... oh look 16gb is now the standard.

in another decade 32gb will be the standard. technology never stops moving, especially with computers.

so for now 16gb is the standard but i'd suggest you go upto 32gb. if you act on it? that's up to you.

[Birds]

Originally posted by Xautos:

a few years ago some were suggesting 8gb of ram as a the default but i said that wasn't good enough any more and those users thought they knew better... oh look 16gb is now the standard.

DDR 4 to DDR 5 shift.

The bus speed boost from having multiple sticks is more important than the memory total.

[MinionJoe]

"All anyone will ever need is 640 kilobytes of memory." -Bill Gates

[Birds]

Originally posted by MinionJoe:

"All anyone will ever need is 640 kilobytes of memory." -Bill Gates

Well that's why the company threw him out; didn't understand bloat.

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

I did that 8 to 16 on ryzen 5 laptop it helped a little but not much, better to save your money and buy a used ebay laptop with a better ryzen for $200 lat
er and just keep playing this one

[Birds]

4 sticks of ddr3 has the same bandwidth as adding an extra core and a half of 3ghz.

the lower cls timings make up the difference compared to ddr5, and do most of the work of overcoming CPU board prioritization in the os layer.

[Azor]

You need 32 gb to deal with windows bloatware nowadays

[Birds]

Originally posted by Azor:

You need 32 gb to deal with windows bloatware nowadays

it's the cheapest way to add 4 extra cores to your rig.

[B✪✪tsy]

Originally posted by Xautos:

in another decade 32gb will be the standard. technology never stops moving, especially with computers.

Game companies can already create almost photo realistic games with complex environments, the technology is there. The reason why they don't is, because it would then not playable anymore for the masses. If everyone would have a 64GB CPU and a 24GB GPU then then it would be viable for the game companies to release next gen stuff now.

[Chaosolous]

16GB RAM should be the absolute minimum for any gaming PC. IDC what minimum RAM specs a game says; 16GB is the minimum you should have.

Ideally you’re gonna want 32GB these days.

[Xautos]

Originally posted by Birds:

Originally posted by Xautos:

a few years ago some were suggesting 8gb of ram as a the default but i said that wasn't good enough any more and those users thought they knew better... oh look 16gb is now the standard.

DDR 4 to DDR 5 shift.

The bus speed boost from having multiple sticks is more important than the memory total.

won't be before long. computer games and software programs are more demanding requiring more and more power and resources (they always will), plus as mentioned the bloat filled windows, speed boosting doesn't mean a lot if the computer is struggling to keep up on a demanding game that needs more memory to use.

[Devsman]

Originally posted by MinionJoe:

"All anyone will ever need is 640 kilobytes of memory." -Bill Gates

I mean, he's not wrong.

Nobody needs more than 640KB.

[Xautos]

Originally posted by B✪✪tsy:

Originally posted by Xautos:

in another decade 32gb will be the standard. technology never stops moving, especially with computers.

Game companies can already create almost photo realistic games with complex environments, the technology is there. The reason why they don't is, because it would then not playable anymore for the masses. If everyone would have a 64GB CPU and a 24GB GPU then then it would be viable for the game companies to release next gen stuff now.

that's the common comment i see regularly, the thing is that technology will surpass it in a decade or two at most and what you consider high end as a pipe dream now would be seen as low end trash when our grandchildren start playing on their PC's for the first time.

[N3tRunn3r]

i have just upgraded my ancient DELL laptop to 2x 16 GB (dual channel) few weeks ago ...

- 2x Crucial RAM 16GB DDR4 3200 MHz CL22
- Crucial P5 Plus 1TB PCIe 4.0 3D NAND NVMe M.2 Gaming SSD (games)
- Crucial MX500 1TB 3D NAND SATA 2,5 SSD (operating system & software)
~ 190 EUR

24 GB or 32 GB RAM should be standard nowadays.. 64 GB RAM would be sorta overkill, 16 GB is or should be bare minimum, as others stated already. Dont understand this wrong, 16 GB is ok, but will become obsolete pretty quick in near future.

8 GB RAM is dead.. for at least ~3 years already ..