8 or 16gbs DDR3 1600 sufficient for gaming, Fraps, and light video editing?

son0ftrendkill · Jul 27, 2015

I'm building my first desktop with the intent of gaming on high-mid settings, recording with fraps or Nvidia's shadowplay, and editing the recordings with windows movie maker or some other free program, to do that would it be worth it to invest in 16gbs now or wait for ram prices to continue dropping and upgrade in a year or so.

das_stig · Jul 27, 2015

8GB is the norm these days and more than enough for gaming and light video work.

16GB (nice if cheap) if your going to be playing with big video files and textures etc, although the memory capacity of the GPU is also important.

You may also find that sticking to 8GB, but going with faster memory and reducing timings will be beneficial.

Tradesman1 · Jul 27, 2015

I'd go 16GB, DRAM use by apps and even games continues to rise, better to get it now then have to upgrade in 6 months or a year. This might help, item 10:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ddr-dram-myths,4155.html

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