RAM is pretty much never a waste, imo. "Several Hundred tabs" would clearly justify 32 or even 64GB for me.

We could be friends

Wow... Has 100% nothing to do with ram. *facepalm*

If you're having issuers with heaps of tabs open, that's a CPU problem, I believe, not a memory one.

Originally posted by datCookie:

If you're having issuers with heaps of tabs open, that's a CPU problem, I believe, not a memory one.

In the rare cases that Firefox is needing more CPU resources I hear the fan spinning up.

Usually Firefox running in the background is not creating much CPU load.

32gb ram is good for gaming. almost a requirement these days.

64gb is good for art design or 3D high intensive applications.. even more sometimes.

I have never required more than 8GB of ram the entire life of this PC.

I don't say this often but unless you're a professional worker and need your PC to actually have 32GB or more... That's a very heavy skill issue.

Originally posted by Eagle_of_Fire:

I have never required more than 8GB of ram the entire life of this PC.

I don't say this often but unless you're a professional worker and need your PC to actually have 32GB or more... That's a very heavy skill issue.

I find it hard to believe you play all those games with 8gb ram smoothly.. except maybe the very old ones. I do see a lack of AAA games in your list though.

Originally posted by PocketYoda:

Originally posted by Eagle_of_Fire:

I have never required more than 8GB of ram the entire life of this PC.

I don't say this often but unless you're a professional worker and need your PC to actually have 32GB or more... That's a very heavy skill issue.

I find it hard to believe you play all those games with 8gb ram smoothly.. except maybe the very old ones. I do see a lack of AAA games in your list though.

Yeah, I tend to play good games.Not overpriced games that have been undercooked both in development and in optimisation. There has been examples over examples of bad PC ports in the past couple years in which a small tweak can make an incredible difference. That's the skill part I guess?

But you can't really expect too much from some people who buy the same next overpriced sport game every year... All they can think about is the new shiny with the best graphic possible even if it make little to no sense. And I of course don't dwelve in that culture.

Originally posted by Eagle_of_Fire:

Originally posted by PocketYoda:

I find it hard to believe you play all those games with 8gb ram smoothly.. except maybe the very old ones. I do see a lack of AAA games in your list though.

Yeah, I tend to play good games.Not overpriced games that have been undercooked both in development and in optimisation. There has been examples over examples of bad PC ports in the past couple years in which a small tweak can make an incredible difference. That's the skill part I guess?

But you can't really expect too much from some people who buy the same next overpriced sport game every year... All they can think about is the new shiny with the best graphic possible even if it make little to no sense. And I of course don't dwelve in that culture.

I hate sport games personally.. i do not follow sport myself. That said i do buy the odd AAA, i have 32 gb i'd never go lower.

Originally posted by Eagle_of_Fire:

I have never required more than 8GB of ram the entire life of this PC.

I don't say this often but unless you're a professional worker and need your PC to actually have 32GB or more... That's a very heavy skill issue.

8GB hasn't been enough for at least the last four years. Basically unless you are running off of a cut-down installation of Linux or a very outdated version of Windows most people needed 16GB to be running both the OS and any application that said it needed at least 8GB without getting some nasty side effects.

That said, 32GB is still the realm of power users. It is more than enough for most circumstances. Going beyond 32GB however is still really the realm of art production, video rendering, or VM server requirements. If you think you need more than 32GB and are not doing the likes of running many simultaneous virtual machines or performing video compression while streaming... you are better off looking at your CPU or an SSD for performance gains.

I certainly will never use Windows 11 if that's what you mean. That's another part of software everybody should be avoiding...

Originally posted by Eagle_of_Fire:

I have never required more than 8GB of ram the entire life of this PC. ...

Originally posted by PocketYoda:

... I find it hard to believe you play all those games with 8gb ram smoothly.. ...

On one hand, there are always be 'that' sandbox or 'unoptimized' AAA title out there that'll use a lot more resource than most everything else. I've been using 16 gigs for sometime myself, and needed it for some sandboxes. It also looks bare minimum for that new(ish) Monster Hunter title that tanked so badly (at least in part) because it tanks in performance.

On the other hand, there are still devs, mostly smaller outfits AFAIK, that still produce titles light-weight enough to work with that (8 gigs system RAM). I guess having smaller asset libraries can be a big help for streamlining performance.

Edit: Oh, and onto that radiation-induced third hand: dedicated GPUs can take some load off of the system RAM. I usually was reminded of that bit back when running stuff off a 32-bit portable machine with integrated graphics and 2 gigs of RAM.

If your board supports it, I'd go for the 2x32, more headroom is better in regard to memory. Especially if a game uses a lot of memory and you keep browser tabs open a lot.

Originally posted by PocketYoda:

I find it hard to believe you play all those games with 8gb ram smoothly.. except maybe the very old ones. I do see a lack of AAA games in your list though.

when you read eagle's posts, he's just a troll.