Is it worth buying another 8GB of RAM?

MrAlanSmith · Feb 3, 2015

I have 8GB of RAM already, I was thinking about getting another 8GB of RAM, Will this improve gaming and the speed of my PC?...

Whats the difference between "Gaming RAM" and normal RAM?" Iv seen Vengeance gaming RAM, What is that or is it all the same?...

IInuyasha74 · Feb 3, 2015

No, it won't. It would be a waste. Please watch and check your RAM usage while playing games and doing other activities, you will see it probably never goes past 6GB.

MrAlanSmith · Feb 3, 2015

IInuyasha74 :

People say it improves the speed of a PC tho.

hardikkchavda · Feb 3, 2015

Until you are not a heavy multitasker you don't require 16 GB ram if you want speed in performance of loading time get an ssd.

angelion · Feb 3, 2015

If u have 1x8Gb i would suggest you to get another 8GB stick to use them as Dual channel
but if u got like 2x4GB or 4x2GB u are fine for now maybe in 2 years you might need an upgrade in RAM capacity for the upcoming Games/Applications

IInuyasha74 · Feb 3, 2015

Anyone who says that doesn't know what they are talking about.

Imagine for a moment you needed to move 50 liters of water from one place to another. If you just use your hands, its going to take a lot longer carrying it piece by piece, slowing you down as you make multiple trips. You could probably load it all up in a car and be able to take it all at once, even have a bit of space left over. Or you could take a tractor trailer to move it.

RAM is basically the same way. Your system, unless you are doing unusually heavy amounts of work that only about 5% of the computer using population actually do, will only need 8GB of RAM. If you have 16GB, it goes unused and just basically sits open doing nothing, but wasting power. If you had 2GB of RAM its a bit more like the 1st scenario in my example and you really could use more, but with 8GB you are at the perfect amount.

Alectfenrir · Feb 3, 2015

You don't really need another 8 GB of RAM especially for gaming. However if your doing movie rendering, art and such extra 8 gig would be useful.

If you want to get faster performance from your RAM, use a RAMDisk. I use one and it makes my game loading times from 10 seconds to 1 second

MrAlanSmith · Feb 3, 2015

hardikkchavda :

How do you know i dont multitask?, I do multitask alot, In and out of gaming, Now and again i make youtube videos, I have alot of tabs open when researching so yano thinking about getting another 8GB of RAM, Im using 4.37GB right now of 8GB and yes i have a SSD, Samsung 840 EVO SSD 250GB, Only for gaming only.

MrAlanSmith · Feb 3, 2015

Alectfenrir :

I have a SSD

Alectfenrir · Feb 3, 2015

A RAMDisk is a software lol.

A RAMDisk is a virtual hard drive stored inside the RAM, but it has insane data transmission speeds. A RAMDisk is about 80x faster than an SSD

CPU-TASTER · Feb 3, 2015

You really don't need more ram for gaming (for now). Even having only 4GB of memory doesn't affect gaming, as long as you don't do anything else at the same time. 8 GB is the sweet spot right now. 16 GB is totally pointless (for gaming only).

Having more Ram does improve speed when doing HEAVY, HEAVY VIDEO EDITING AN RENDERING.

MrAlanSmith · Feb 3, 2015

Alectfenrir :

How much ram to you need and how do you use it?

MrAlanSmith · Feb 3, 2015

CPU-TASTER :

Wow cant you read?, I said in my last post i do youtube videos and SSD is for gaming only, learn to read!

Alectfenrir · Feb 3, 2015

You need at least 4 Gig of RAM (well you have 8 which is great) but you also need to have a RAMDisk software. I don't know where to get one though but my motherboard (Maximus VII Hero) comes with a free RAMDisk software.

Its a bit complicated to use this software, so I can't teach you here (Sorry!), but basically you allocate your spare RAM into super fast virtual storage that will make loading times and file transmission speeds insanely fast.

MrAlanSmith · Feb 3, 2015

Alectfenrir :

Ill have to research that like i have everything else like i do with computers.

CPU-TASTER · Feb 3, 2015

Alectfenrir · Feb 3, 2015

Wow, guys just chill please >.<

CPU-TASTER if you got something to say like that, don't put it up here please...

Is it worth buying another 8GB of RAM?

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