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ronharr

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Will there be a significant improvement of going from 16 gb ram to 32 gb ram. This would be
on a msi x79a-gd45 motherboard and 4930k processor.
 
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If you have to ask, then the answer is no. Very few scenarios will require that extra 16GB, and you'd certainly know if you were an user of such a system. Mostly, professional video editing, running multiple Virtual Machines, buffering databases and a few other things require that much RAM.

If you are the average power user, I'd wager you don't even need the 16GB you have.
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No. I seriously doubt you are even using 16 gb of ram so you will see no improvement with the upgrade. If you do a lot of rendering and memory heavy applications then maybe. If you simply open your task manager, it will tell you the proportion of memory that you are using at any given time, so next time you are using your computer under a normal load, open the task manager (ctrl+alt+delete) and check it out.
 
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Depends on programs which you use, if you use your PC for gaming then you won't notice the difference but in "Photoshop" and other photo/video editing programs your 32GB RAM would work faster for 10~15% than 16GB but I think it's not worth the money because generally 16GB is overkill for almost all kind of programs :)
 
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If you have to ask, then the answer is no. Very few scenarios will require that extra 16GB, and you'd certainly know if you were an user of such a system. Mostly, professional video editing, running multiple Virtual Machines, buffering databases and a few other things require that much RAM.

If you are the average power user, I'd wager you don't even need the 16GB you have.
 
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jitpublisher

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It would be best if we knew what kind of improvment you are looking for. What is it specifically about your system that you are not happy about right now? The issue may not even be RAM related. And as others have already stated, most people don't need more than 16 gig, and honestly even a large percentage of those don't need more than 8.
 
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