Should I upgrade from 16gb ram to 32gb ram?

Will Dano

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Jul 15, 2013
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Specs:

16gb 1866MHz Ram
GTX 770 2gb
i7 4770k

I do a lot of video editing and rendering in After Effects, Premiere Pro, 3Ds Max, etc. Usually when I'm rendering a big scene in after effects, it says %76 percent of 15.9 ram is being used, and I was wondering If I had 32gb would speed up the rendering process at all.

I also do some gaming, but I'm pretty sure it wont make any difference at all for that.

Thanks for your input.
 
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Yes, those programs will use all the RAM you can throw at it, which in this case is 32GB. It's only using 76% because the other 24% are being used for other processes. You can up that in the settings, but it will bottleneck anything else you're trying to do at the same time.

KyleADunn

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Your system will try to not max out your RAM, so that there is free space readily available for new tasks. That said, I think 16gb is fine for After Effects of Premiere Pro on their own (Pro typically runs at 20gb at most, though it WILL use more), but if you're running them simultaneously, then 32gb would definitely show improvement.
 
Yes, those programs will use all the RAM you can throw at it, which in this case is 32GB. It's only using 76% because the other 24% are being used for other processes. You can up that in the settings, but it will bottleneck anything else you're trying to do at the same time.
 
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Tradesman1

Legenda in Aeternum
It can't hurt and can definitely help. Might sort of keep an eye on the HD light, if you have After Effects open or other apps and see lots of blinking of the HD light that's often the system reading and writing to the page file which indicates a shortage of DRAM