go for 16GB ram?

[tyraellucifer]

I game alot on Dota 2 and like to have many chrome / mozilla tabs.

I bought a budget 4th gen old motherboard (only 2 ram slots) as my previous one failed.

Is 8GB (4GBx2) enough? Find that if I run both, i have 0 free memory usually. If i close either one, I would have like few hundred MB free memory in task memory.

find that chrome take up alot of memory, game as well.
Previous motherboard had 4 ram slots (4GBX4)

 

[RememberThe5th]

Probably if you're gonna keep many tabs opened yes, but that also depends which CPU and GPU you have? (Because browsers can use CPU and GPU).

 

[SkyBill40]

Is 8GB enough? Sure, it's enough for most things; however, in my opinion it's better to have it and not need it than vice versa. Besides, new games and programs are requiring more and more system RAM. If it's not a huge expense for you, I'd buy the 16GB and call it good.

Edit:

What board are you using, specifically?

 

[Petarded]

16gb is the new min, most games will use what you give them

 

[RememberThe5th]

From what i recall with my testing on Unigine benchmark, higher quality texture=more ram, if dota 2 with max quality is using for example 6GB (1.5-2GB windows probably), and just 10 tabs can eat up 1GB of ram, you're already at 7GB.

Soo i agree and disagree, if you really need soo many tabs opened and depends what you like to do and your habits, get 16GB but as @SkyBill40 asked you it might have compability issues with your new board soo you have to watch about that.

Its a mixed bag.

 

[tyraellucifer]

guess i will get the 16gb (8x2), as it seems like 3 of my 4gb rams is having problems..asrock H81M-HDS R2.0

 

[RememberThe5th]

Just check up for compatible ram. Memory QVL https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/H81M-DGS%20R2.0/index.asp#Memory

 

[SkyBill40]

You still didn't tell us what mobo you're using. You'd better check to make sure that it's accepting of what you're considering.