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Traum · 10-12-2012, 09:24 AM

Can't think of a game where you'll need 16GB for it. In most cases, even 8GB is plenty. As another fellow has pointed out, your $$ is better spent on a graphics card if you are trying to maximize your gaming performance.

Assuming that you are running on Vista/Win7, you can easily monitor how much RAM you are using with desktop gadgets. Unless you start running out of real physical RAM and notice the PC swapping stuff to/from the HDD when you switch between programs, there is no benefit in having more RAM sitting around doing nothing.

When I am not playing games on the PC, most of the time I am only using around 2GB's worth of RAM.

10-12-2012, 09:24 AM	#5
Traum RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Paradise, BC Posts: 8,393 Thanked 8,162 Times in 3,396 Posts Failed 262 Times in 148 Posts	Can't think of a game where you'll need 16GB for it. In most cases, even 8GB is plenty. As another fellow has pointed out, your $$ is better spent on a graphics card if you are trying to maximize your gaming performance. Assuming that you are running on Vista/Win7, you can easily monitor how much RAM you are using with desktop gadgets. Unless you start running out of real physical RAM and notice the PC swapping stuff to/from the HDD when you switch between programs, there is no benefit in having more RAM sitting around doing nothing. When I am not playing games on the PC, most of the time I am only using around 2GB's worth of RAM.