is 32GB ram good when having an SSD as a Main Drive?

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It's pretty hard to use 32GB RAM. Very few even power users would notice the difference going from 16 to 32. Many wouldn't notice the difference between 8 & 32.

Running multiple virtual machines, a LOT of serious productivity packages simultaneously... maybe 32GB... maybe. But for the vast, vast majority, 8GB is plenty and 16GB is good for bragging rights.
 
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Even today most programs are 32 bit which means they can only use around 3.2 gig of RAM
Unless you plan on running 8 or ten heavy duty windows programs at the same time you will not use anywhere near 32 Gig of RAM

8 gig is plenty for all but graphics pro's , people running VM's and top end gamers who might get a slight benefit from 16 gig[ and might not too]
 
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32GB of RAM is only useful IF you are going without a pageing file but why do that anymore? with the invetions in vista refined in windows 7 then refined even more so in windows 8 with a slight make over for the UI in windows 8.1 you do not need to remove the pageing file anymore for any preformance increase thus making 32GB of RAM useless unless you are running a renderer, CAD, CAM, being a compile server, a high speed database server, etc. like that for a gaming rig 32GB of RAM is just super overkill.
... if you are like me and plan to run a gameing LAN Party with everyone on a sheild for a 4v4 battle in low latency then yes 32GB on the VM Server would make sense but again that is acting as the game server and the VM server while still probably havent it as the wireless switch / wired switch for everyone to connect to for even less latency.
 
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The short answer: you probably will not be useing all 16GB for gaming but server applications and/or streaming of gaming.. Assuming you have the paging file turned on automatic of course and are in windows 7 or higher.
The long answer: 16GB is useful when you are doing light video editing, 3D editing with a pageing file and less than 100,000 vertices in the scene over that you will need more RAM, some of the newer games will when also streaming them as the streaming part will make the amount of RAM that you need go up though that is dependent on how you are doing it and what program(s) and/or hardware you are using for it, then um learning CPU parallel programming though a bannana pi might be better for that or a cluster of mutliple raspberry pi devices hooked up to a master computer with the master computer doing the work of which slave computer does what though as i do not do that kind of computeing i am unsure if you would need that much RAM, ...
Other than that i have been told that some minecraft servers with a ton of mods need more than just 16GB but if you ease off of the mods and have a modest amount of clients around 4~6 clients on it it should be enough with it going around 15.7GB ~15.9GB with the server running with mods and the client runing with mods also with a Virtual LAN program too.
Virtual machines would eat that up too as um you would only be able to have around 7 virtual machines so not to many but not to few either.

 
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What are you doing with the computer? If the answer is standard 'lots of gaming', 'occasional video/photo editing', etc, then 8GB is plenty, save your cash for a more important upgrade (almost always GPU).

If the answer is streaming, frequent 1080P video editing, or running virtual machines, then 16GB starts to make more sense.
 
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Your use-case would justify 16GB RAM I think. Whether it's worth the money only you can decide. If you want to investigate further, do one of the tasks that you describe as getting 'laggy' and check out your memory usage and disk activity. It's the 'available' that's the important one (Windows pretty much uses all your RAM to cache stuff that it thinks might be needed again). If you see only a small amount of memory available and your HDD being flogged, it's a sure-fire sign that you're paging. In that case additional memory will (probably) make a massive difference.
 
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Oh no no no

i mean making skins for a game called warthunder and it has a crap ton of stuff in it and it starts to to lagg and its really annoying. I doubt its a CPU or GPU or ram problem as I have a i5 4670k OC to 4.3 ghz, a r9 270x oc 1.12 ghz and 4 gigis of spare ram.
 
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for that i say use photoshop with a OpenCL plugin turned on and/or blender with a nVidia Compute card added in besides your r9 270x to use the CUDA functionaity on it as form what i can tell o nwarthunder you shouldnt need a better rig than that to make skins for it but if you do then photoshop with OpenCL turned on and/or Blender with CUDA turned on and useing the nVidia card for computing NOT actually displaying it on screen but for computing in it.
There is a guide onto how to have a nVidia card and a AMD card in the same system and use them both at the same time on this site just i do not know where in the archives it is also it noted that it might be diferenet in the future and/or with diffenret cards.
 
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