do I really need 16GB of ram

Bxephos123 · May 13, 2014

right now I have:
I7 2600
8GB ram
nvidia gt 520 1GB graphics card.
I am going to buy a AMD R9 290. I game a lot. any game you could think of. and I wanna be able to play almost all of them on maxed settings. do I really need another 8GB of ram or am I okay with what I have?

Remixex · May 13, 2014

Completely fine, 8Gb is sweetspot right now in gaming, and it will be like that for a long time, and here i was asking if i needed 8Gb for my rig

mickypheonix · May 13, 2014

8gb will be fine

you will not require more than 8gb for games most high end games like crysis3 and farcry 3 high performance requirements will only utilize up to 8gb
http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=3953&game=Crysis%203
http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=883&game=Far%20Cry%203

Rationale · May 13, 2014

No games even use the full 8GB right now.

The R9 290 is sort of overkill coming from a GT 520 as well, you'd max every game on a 280X or GTX 770 if you want to save money. But meh, get an R9 290 if you want.

Superlp12 · May 13, 2014

Just something for thought.The game "Thief" alone use up around 6.4g ram.

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