How much is overkill for me?

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Andriokz

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Building a new PC so trying to pick my parts effectively. I want instant access to programs, web pages, ect with no lag or wait in between when it comes to my computer's side of things. The main abuse of my RAM will be multitasking; multiple Chrome tabs, Youtube, Spotify, all while GTA V or Witcher 3 is open on a 1070 GTX on the highest setting.

Would having the ability to overclock my memory to 3000 or 3200 would give an fps gain for games or help the multitasking part significantly? Is 16 enough or should I go for 32 and someone told me 32 gigs be slower than 16, is that true?
 
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Overclocking from 3000-3200 will not provide any noticeable gains in performance. I believe 16gb to be more than sufficient for my workflow and gaming, which often happens simultaneously on two monitors with multiple apps. I have never maxed my 16gb. However, I do not run VMS, the biggest memory hog imaginable.

For faster performance installing SSDs on raid would provide more gains than more memory.
 
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Well you could build a 300 dollar pc that would be adequate for browsing the web very quickly, any decent gaming pc will do that with ease. I doubt you need more than 16gb of ram unless you into heavy video editing or something like that. 8gb would be enough for probably 8-10 chrome tabs, spotify, and gta v or witcher 3 just to put that into perspective, witcher 3 and gta v won't even use 4gb of system ram on there own. I highly doubt you would ever notice the difference between 300mhz ram and 3200mhz ram outside of benchmarks.

Well I doubt it would be slower but on say a z170 mobo with only duel channel ram support, adding 4 sticks can stress the memory controller on the cpu.
 
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32 GB are not slower than 16GB ... some games like fallout 4 show huge gain from faster memory.

http://wccftech.com/fallout-4-performance-heavily-influenced-by-ram-speed-according-to-report/

The nice spot now is 16GB RAM , but it wont hurt to get 32GB

 
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I'll stick with 16 GB for now to be on the safe side then. Is there any particular brand/model recommended for what I would be using it for?

Also, still on a HDD and I never have been able to see the SSD difference.


 
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system boot time:
when I was on an HDD: 45 sec until I could really work
when I switched to a SDD: 7 sec

you CAN feel the difference. trust me.

concerning RAM: Ripjaws V / Trident Z (GSkill), Vengeance (Corsair) are nice RAMs.
personally I don't think that the premium price of the HyperX Kingston-sticks are worth it

 
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Wow, still on HDD! Well my friend, stop fussing about RAM and get an SSD. You will instantly notice amazing performance gains, particularly load/transfer times.

Any DDR4 2x8gb memory will do, get what most suits your budget.
 
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Just picking one is now the issue. 500Gb 850 Evo or 250GB 850 Evo and Mushkin reactor. As for ram, anything is fine in terms of budget for 16 gigs. Tempted to get the G.skill Trident Z 3200 C14 but as the others said, I'd never make use of it so I may just get the Ripjaw 4s at 2133

 
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