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Is 8gb really necessary?
I've never had more than 4 and i've never had a problem
For muh gaymes is the bare minimum
Depends on usage, obviously.
16gb here and regularly max out.
>giving a shit about other's wants
WHY THE FUCK DOES ANYONE CARE
I BOUGHT 24GB CAUSE I COULD DAMMIT
Depends of your usage of it. If you paly games (as mentioned above) or if you have to deal with large files (like audio files), then yes, you need 8GB of RAM at the very least.
As a music producer, I often fill 8GB of my RAM, and I once went up to 23GB full.
>>53217960
Depends on what you do.
The
>"I fell for the 16GiB meme shotgun to mouth"
meme is strong on /g/ recently, but it seriously depends on the user. I have 16GB of RAM, I've never really maxed it out, but I don't think about it every day. I don't loose sleep thinking about the other things I could have bought instead. I rarely think about it at all because I have 16GB, I don't have to.
>>53218233
I often play 2 games with 10+ chrome tabs open in the background
32gb here because sometimes 16 isn't enough, and the 2 16gb where cheap.
>>53217960
It really depends on usage.
On my gaming desktop I have 8gb, but on my d2500 desktop i have 2gb and it's plenty.
>>53217960
I'd you're setup can use it and you plan on running a lot of shit at once, then sure.
I put 16gb on my laptop because I could, and now every program can easily remain in memory which makes it great for getting things done quickly on the go. Worth it? Doesn't matter, more RAM is better.
Browser crashes at 2.5gb used, so you wont need more than 4gb just for regular shit
>>53217960
It's entirely dependent on what you do with it. I have machines that get by fine with 1.25GB RAM or less, I have other machines that have 24GB RAM
>>53218757
My laptop has 8GB of RAM and I've never run out. My old ThinkPad had 6GB of RAM and I didn't run out there either. Even with shit like GIMP or Photoshop open.
>tfw just upgraded to 16gb because I'm not poor
>>53219036
I do video editing often, but of course also have my browser, GIMP and other stuff running in the background. I used 8gb in the past, but would sometimes see usage of the swap file and significant slowdown. Went with 16 on my new build, couldn't be happier since i don't have to think about ram usage anymore.
>>53219117
>Upgraded to 16GB
Nah, you're poor. People with money have had 16GB of RAM since like 2010. They're on 32GB at the least now.
>>53219163
People with money don't waste it needlessly
>>53219189
That's what poorfags justify their purchases with. An extra $60 on a $1500-$2000 computer is nothing.
>>53219163
Desktop wise, that's mostly just faggots who run server CPUs that offer no benefits to what they are doing with them just to be different.
I use 8 GB of RAM and 16 GB of swap. I program, use chromium, and have a lot of PDFs open
>>53219205
It is when you have literally no use for it.
>>53217960
I just bought 8Gb because I want to compile a lot of stuff (+ my own gentoo programs), so if I want to do it properly I do it ram instead of setroying my sdd.
But for a regular use I don't see the point, I was always fine with 2Gb
>>53219216
>I program
It means nothing. You can edit text files in vim and use negligible amount of CPU and RAM or use Java shit with bells and whistles like JetBrains.
>>53219236
In that case why go over 8GB? It fits most people's needs. The sort of people who benefit from 16GB would also benefit from 32GB.
>>53219281
This is untrue. I benefit from 16GB without a use for 32GB.
>>53219300
What are you doing that's so RAM intensive that 16GB helps while 32GB doesn't?
In before browsing /g/ while watching anime with photoshop and foobar open.
>>53217960
I cant live with anything less than 16 desu
>>53219117
how much are you using right now?
>>53219269
If you work on a large program instead of fizz buzz, you'll need all that memory.
>>53219314
Browsing, virtual machines, occasional RAMdisks
>>53219257
Gentoo compiles a lot only when it installs. SSD doesn't give a shit about this.
>>53217960
I just got 16 to be safe
>>53219366
32GB would help you there you know! Hell, you could even put the VMs on a RAM disk.
>>53219372
Not him but compilation can and does use lots of RAM. Especially for things like GCC.
>>53219387
>32GB would help you there you know!
Not when I have no issues with the 16GB I already have!
>Hell, you could even put the VMs on a RAM disk.
Already do.
>>53218105
Doing what exactly?
>>53219281
Even in the test articles everybody reads where they are saying 8GB of RAM is fine for "most" people, the 16GB setups still performed at least slightly better with everything and some of these tests were using SSD drives which is a pretty big factor to just throw i there.
Then those who get upset at people having more than 8GB for some reason immediately change the "only offers minor improvement in most cases" to "there is NO benefit, why would you buy more than 8 like I have".
I would say so, yeah. I have 5.5GB of RAM (500MB reserved for APU) and I constantly reach 4GB when I do a lot of stuff at once. Thinking about replacing the secondary 2GB laptop RAM stick with a 4GB one.
8GB gives you room to breathe and you will almost always have enough. Beside it's like $30 for an 8GB RAM kit so price isn't really a problem.
Depending on what you do, 8 GB may not even be enough (especially for running VMs).
I recently added 4GB (8GB in total) to my x230 and it runs much better. 4GB is plenty, but with a small instance of elasticsearch and mysql running all the time for development purposes, chromium with the usual 20 tabs, and intellij you can feel it's snappier. I regularly maxed out ram. If you don't then you won't feel any difference.
Depends on usage. Some idiots buy more than 8GB, barely using half of it. Normal usage is 4GB and it's enough, you can run games with it easily also, depending on game of course. Even though you have money to spend on ram, it's a waste if you don't use it to its fullest.
>>53219577
>.5gb
>>53219117
Nice job
Heres a better question
Is DDR4 worth it yet?
>>53219636
It doesn't really bother me to be honest. It can automatically increase to 1GB if the vydia gaem needs it (GTA IV worked with ~700MB of VRAM usage). Any game that requires above 1GB of VRAM can't run on my laptop so it doesn't matter anyway.
>>53217960
Sometimes my usage will climb all the way to 17. But I've never seen it go beyond that.
>>53217960
You've never had a problem because you've never had to create problems, faggot. Try running virtual clients. You'll see how fast RAM drops off when you're trying to maintain several VPS.
>>53219776
Not at all unless you're using an APU or a server. dual-channel 1600 Mhz DDR3 RAM (25.6GB/s) is more than enough for most situations. If you use a dedicated graphics card then the only benefit I can see in using fast DDR4 RAM is more FPS on fallout 4. But that's mainly due to the fact that fallout 4 is an unoptimized piece of shit.
>>53219901
But they cost pretty much the same as DDR3.
>>53219372
Just go compile chromium or palemoon i heard palemoon needs 12gb or something
>>53217960
google "virtual machine"
>>53220144
Okay but most rational human beings are on socket LGA 1150 or earlier which don't support DDR4. Skylake was a flop.
>>53220249
>he doesn't have his dock set to hide with the icons at their smallest possible setting
Sure is pleb in here
>>53220295
>Implying that was my picture
I just got a new MBA with 4GB, works great
>>53220447
Just start a VM off tty, you'll be more efficient
>>53220560
I need to copy-paste thing between VM and my base system. I have 16 GB of RAM in my Thinkpad and a good CPU. They run without lag in X..
32 gig here.... thinking about upgrading to 128gig of ddr4 when i build next
>>53220641
What games?
>>53220798
The game of doing the fucking work on my workstation. Fucking /v/ kids on my /g/...
>>53220854
What the fuck is this? Color coated pubes?
>>53220889
not that guy but underage pls go
I have have 32Gb. 16Gb is not enough for what I do for work, and RAM is cheap as fuck so who cares.
yes its necessary for heavy video editing or music production using multisampled libraries like whole orchestral sections with articulations
I don't play games so I don't know about that
that's literally the only reason I can think of though
>>53220889
it's the pso logo
that's ash the humar in front
>>53220798
Windows.
As said elsewhere here it really depends on what you're doing.
I like gaymen so I generally need at least 8, and at work I usually need to run 2 or 3 VMs and a myriad of different applications at once, so I use 16 there.
>>53221141
I think 16 gb is a nice sweet spot
I can go up to 32gb but I haven't needed to yet
>>53217960
8gb is like bare minimum. I would not be able to operate with 4. 16 is recommended.
Will be doing at least 32gb on a broadwell-e build, possibly 64gb if prices drop enough. Hell, I might even buy 32gb of ddr3 for my current build.
>>53219419
a lot of porn video opened at the same time with porn game
8gb is the minimum now especially with all the current browsers eating gigs of RAM.
>>53219419
I run a minecraft server for me and my bro, we have a lot of mods installed so it takes up a lot of RAM XD
