Should i upgrade my pc's 4gb ram for 2014-15 gaming

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guy i want to know what difference will it make for my pc in gaming if i upgrade to 6 or 8 gbs of ram my specs are

intel i3 530 2.9 ghz
4gb ram (2 x 2)
sapphire amd r7 250 1 gb gddr5 with boost
450 watts psu
4 slots for ram

i want to play games like

Assassin creed Unity/ FIFA 15/ Far Cry4/ Sid
Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth/ Tom
Clancy's The Division / The Crew/ Call of
Duty: Advanced Warfare / Grand theft Auto
V / watch dogs/ sniper elite 3/ battlefield
4/ witcher 3/ Titan Fall/
 
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Total memory usage is a bit odd due to the way VM works. Windows will try its hardest to make sure your usage never hits 100% as that is a bit dangerous so it will page out data to make sure that you have free memory for actively running applications. The more memory you have the less gets paged. As an example my system is currently using 5.5GB of memory but total commit (memory + virtual memory usage) is 7.1GB. So about 1.6GB is paged out.

As for this I would say 8GB is a good spot for current gamers to be at and would be the minimum I would recommend for gamers. As to difference it will make. A system low on memory will slow to a crawl and will start being unresponsive if it is severely limited. Other changes you will see is when...
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I would go for the upgrade, it's worth it. Right now, the sweet spot is around 6Gb-8GB. I have 6GB, and I don't know how many things you have running at the same time, but I run a lot of chrome tabs, while playing games, and listneing to music and my memory usage sometimes skyrockets.

I feel like 4Gb is starting to become the minmum now if you are a gamer.
 
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The first reply was right, 6GB is all you really need. I actively monitor RAM usage during all usage on my system, gaming, webrowsing, etc. The usage normally stays between 4GB and 6GB. On rare occasions going up to about 6.5GB. So it is best to have 8GB total system RAM for everything to work well.
 
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Not sure your point. Yes you can play games, and do literally anything else on the PC with 4GB of RAM that you can do with 8GB of RAM. The difference variable is performance, which this site neither looks at, compares, or even mentions.
 
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Total memory usage is a bit odd due to the way VM works. Windows will try its hardest to make sure your usage never hits 100% as that is a bit dangerous so it will page out data to make sure that you have free memory for actively running applications. The more memory you have the less gets paged. As an example my system is currently using 5.5GB of memory but total commit (memory + virtual memory usage) is 7.1GB. So about 1.6GB is paged out.

As for this I would say 8GB is a good spot for current gamers to be at and would be the minimum I would recommend for gamers. As to difference it will make. A system low on memory will slow to a crawl and will start being unresponsive if it is severely limited. Other changes you will see is when you have a good amount of memory things like tabbing out of a running game will be a lot smoother if you only have enough memory for the game the system will have to push the games state to the Page file (HDD) then pull the desktop state from the HDD to memory which is time consuming. But besides that it is not uncommon for games to use 2-4GB of memory by themselves and this is likely to increase as more 64bit games are released.
 
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This is also true. I monitor with 16GB of RAM in use, and except for compression and extracting clumps of files about 100GB in size it has never exceeded 8GB of usage. However my dad's PC also using Windows 7 tends to only use about 3GB cause he only has 4GB installed. 8GB really is the best place, and everything will seemingly perform better going from 4GB to 8GB.
 
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