8gb vs 16gb gaming only

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The video I'm looking at on YT (8gb vs 16gb ram gaming benchmarks) the one with the game in the background with the overlay of the benchmarks, shows no gain adding extra ram. Since I don't do video editing can anyone chime in on if there is a compelling reason to upgrade my system now? I'm afraid the stock of DDR3 2400 will be depleted and it's on sale now but I don't want to buy it for nothing if it will not make a difference in the lifetime of the RAM.
 
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DDR4 gives no performance benefits in terms of gaming. So I wouldn't really be worried about the "lifetime" of the RAM. If you are talking about the literal life of it, the odds of it failing are extremely low so I wouldn't worry about that either. If you don't have anything running in the background of your computer (other than the supplimental things derp) then running 4GB would be fine too and you wouldn't need more.

So no, 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, or doesn't matter. Anything more than 8 will do nothing. In the future, the same will likely be true for atleast 3 years. That being said, if you plan to keep that rig for more than 3 years, buy the kit. If not, then don't bother at all because your next rig is guaranteed to be DDR4.

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DDR4 gives no performance benefits in terms of gaming. So I wouldn't really be worried about the "lifetime" of the RAM. If you are talking about the literal life of it, the odds of it failing are extremely low so I wouldn't worry about that either. If you don't have anything running in the background of your computer (other than the supplimental things derp) then running 4GB would be fine too and you wouldn't need more.

So no, 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, or doesn't matter. Anything more than 8 will do nothing. In the future, the same will likely be true for atleast 3 years. That being said, if you plan to keep that rig for more than 3 years, buy the kit. If not, then don't bother at all because your next rig is guaranteed to be DDR4.

Just my two bits :)

(I actually did buy the extra 8GB since I was also worried about it not being available. But I am also unsure if I'm going to be video editing with this computer in the future. I am running Trident X) Another thing to think about is that you could actually (well likely) carry over that RAM to your next upgrade. Some motherboards will support Skylake as well as DDR3. But that would be kind of stupid considering DDR4 is out:)
 
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I just added another 8gb on RAM yesterday so its now 16gb with 2400hrz, i dont know but when i tested it on gta5 and online set it up to very high, from 50-70 fps with 8gb ram, i went to 100-60 fps on my new 16gb ram pc.... i do have i5 6600 and gtx 1070 no oc done....
 
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This is a year old thread, back then 8GB was enought, in 2016 the games started demanding 16GB of ram
 
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Posting this to help someone who needs an answer regarding the topic.... im not an expert or something like that im just sharing my experience....
 
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