Is upgrading 16GB RAM to 32GB worth it?

[aaronx ⭕⃤]

Only for gaming. And the only game I was waiting for, Hogwart Legacy, experienced a stutter due to 15.9GB of RAM usage.

So I'm thinking of upgrading the ram tomorrow, is it worth it or not?

Edit: Just upgraded yerterday (5/16/23) and still stutter :(

[AdahnGorion]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von 󠀡󠀡⁧⁧Orange Mint:

its always better to have more

Not always.

Sometimes its beter to have faster and better quality ram, than more.
It all depends. ie. unless you have a workstation, 64gb ram is not needed, so having 32gb high quality (good timing, mhz, etc) is better compared to having low quality or even avarage quality 64gb

In some setups, the is also true with 16gb vs 32gb

[Ysosrscat]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von DarkCrystalMethod:

Remembering when a "full" ("world ready") OS ran on 32 MB. (when your system came with 8 and was actually working quite well)
This is what bloatware causes. Blame bad developers. This is the opposite of optimizing. Lets please return to micro-operating systems.

On the other hand ram has been stagnant for a decade, there was a time when 32GB of DDR3 was cheap, then it stayed high like gpu prices did for years, people should have way more than this if things had kept advancing at a consistent rate.

[Xero_Daxter]

I download my RAM.

[Chesmu]

I'm still using 2GB, are those heavy games really worth it?

[DarkCrystalMethod]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Chesmu:

I'm still using 2GB, are those heavy games really worth it?

WIndows 10 itself technically can install and run on 2GB but every calculation will be a tremendous fight. Get 4GB to at least run it somewhat well. At 6 GB it will run just fine(without additional programs like steam and games). If you have 8GB thats probably the minimum for a good gaming experience, but having more is going to be extremely more enjoyable.

[Xero_Daxter]

*has 128GB of RAM*

Google Chrome: Finally, a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!

[DarkCrystalMethod]

How much dedodated wam is needed for a server? (And buy twice that much)

[Xero_Daxter]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von DarkCrystalMethod:

How much dedodated wam is needed for a server? (And buy twice that much)

Is it weird that I know where that quote is from?

[DarkCrystalMethod]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Xero_Daxter:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von DarkCrystalMethod:

How much dedodated wam is needed for a server? (And buy twice that much)

Is it weird that I know where that quote is from?

Minecraft kid asking the devs a serious question.

[aaronx ⭕⃤]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Fried Brains:

yes, just don't expect too much, it will only help a little. A blip here, a hic up there. Hogwarts can use it so get it if you can.

Yeaah, just upgraded yesterday and still stutter

[aaronx ⭕⃤]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Donut:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von aaronx:

Only for gaming. And the only game I was waiting for, Hogwart Legacy, experienced a stutter due to 15.9GB of RAM usage.

So I'm thinking of upgrading the ram tomorrow, is it worth it or not?

You'll have that stutter even with 32 GB RAM, that's because of how performance hungry the unreal engine is. Gotta deal with it. I'm speaking from experience.

But upgrading to 32 GB isn't a bad idea. Windows alone takes up to 9 GB in idle so you only have 7 GB of free RAM left for gaming with 16 GB total memory. And some games demand a lot of RAM.

Yeah, you are right. Just upgraded yesterday and still stutter

[Lambros]

Yes for buttery smooth performance in Hogwarts per Gizmosliptech and future games 32gb of ram is recommended for the cpu bottleneck. Not super essential though as high settings instead of ultra still look good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JBN8GvU1to

[Ysosrscat]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von TWPanda77:

I have a browser tabs open, some launchers and Far Cry 6 running. I am using 30gb ram right now. I am glad I have 64gb

Now dirt cheap, great to never have to think about it at all with 64.

[ShatteredPumpkin]

depends its neither worth or worthless either games dont need that amount or some games need a lot like games that are poorly optimized and use like 7-12gb ram on the other hand lots of good games only need like 6-8gb ram

[Ysosrscat]

No, just look at vram requirements going up, and the texture streaming issues on pc, I'm sure the eventual work around will be to cache more and more into ram to get around storage bottlenecks on pc.