doing some multitasking.
since people say i wasted my money, i suppose i'll add the fact that i spent $65 for the 16gb kit in september of 2012. It was $15 more than the 8gb kit.
the way these games now a days are going to start utilizing more RAM. 16gigs is going to be the norm soon.
unless we know what you're running that means absolutly nothing, if it's mostly just windows then that's because it will use a percentage that it determines you don't need at the time, it will be more when you have more ram and less when you have less ram, it also doesn't really need it, if you suddenly needed to use 10gb it would stop using so much
devs don't want to exclude anyone who might give them money, that's why almost all games are 32 bit programs, unless they decide they don't care about money anymore, then games won't be using more than 4gb any time soon
just using chrome with like 40 tabs, 2 ms word documents, 1 onenote window, 1 powerpoint, 3 publisher, fb messenger, and steam/origin/uplay/geforce experience. (geforce experience eats ram for breakfast) Not even playing a game.
ahhh
If geforce experience (lol telling a pc gamer how to set his games up? sacrilege!) was eating my ram up it would be gone!!!
>In use
>6.5 Gb
You are not even exceeding 8 Gb.
I never even got close to using 8 Gb at the same time while doing things like having a browser open, watching videos and playing games at the same (I would be able to tell because paging file is disabled)
16 Gb is not going to be needed for several years.
I already got rid of it lol don't have to worry about that
I've got 16Gb as well, however the most I've ever seen it use was around 3.8 while playing Crysis 3. Then again I came from a Laptop with 4Gb of RAM and an AMD 6520g, I'm a bit economical when it comes to multitasking.
Since nobody here seems to understand the distinction between "active" and "standby" RAM, I'll explain.
In my system I have 8 GB of RAM. 2.8 GB is being used actively. That doesn't mean I'm only using 2.8 of 8 GB. There is also 4.5 GB being used in the Standby portion which is when the computer loads something the HDD/SSD for the first time into RAM (active) then when you close that program/file, etc. it puts it into Standby portion so that if you load that program/file again it'll load straight from Standby RAM instead of going all the way back to the HDD/SSD.
So in that 8 GB less than 1 GB is not being used. Also there are tons of reasons for large amount of RAM. Namely video editing and running virtual machines. Since I run VMs, when I upgrade my computer I'll be going with minimum 32 GB, but probably 64 GB.
I have 16gb and bf4 eats half of it. I'd be willing to bet very soon we'll need more than 8 for some games.
really I have not seen BF4 make my system use more then 6gb total of ram my friends with 8gb of ram dont max out theirs either
I am glad I have 16gb as it makes my build more future proof and I am able to editing if I want to get into that
I am at 7.19/8.00GB now, most of it's used by chrome, it makes me wonder if windows even uses my pagefile (rage >.<).... Also I still can't believe Microsoft still makes a 32bit version, it just makes no sense....
I saw this topic name, and I thought
That's madness.
Then I read this topic, and I thought
This is madness.
I'm also glad you got 16Gb of RAM.
I would buy 16GB at this time, if you can afford it. It isn't a priority. I just upgraded to a low profile CL7 16GB kit. Useful for editing.
It would be wise to upgrade before the price of DDR3 goes up any further. While you might not necessarily need it now, DDR3 will be much more scarce or more expensive in the future. I want my current platform to be relevant in 3, 4, maybe 5 years+