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Captain_Tom on 20 December 2014
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Alby_da_Wolf said:
Captain_Tom said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:
@OP: just a suggestion, 8GB can be fine for now, but it's the bare minimum, and if you see you're going to need more, don't make my mistake, upgrade the RAM before DDR3 goes out of production, or at latest little time after, because when it will go out of production its price will stopp dropping, and after a while it will rise again.


8GB is not not the bare minimum at all.  4 is.   8GB will be fine for many years.

Having 4GB (last time I made a partial upgrade I chose to upgrade from onboard HD3300 to an R7 250 GPU on card because buying another 4GB DDR2 ECC would have cost me almost the same for a much smaller performance boost except under heavy memory load, and anyhow the GPU upgrade allowed me to free the half GB previously used by the  onboard GPU) I can say I both agree and disagree: yes 4GB are enough for most games and obviously for every 32bit game, but using the PC for other than games they start being uncomfortable under heavy memory load, for example opening many tabs on the browser, then also opening images in a graphic editor the system slows down noticeably. 8GB are enough now, but they could become not particularly comfortable in a near future. In any case I don't suggest the OP to absolutely upgrade the RAM immediately, just to try and predict the possible future necessity of such upgrade with enough advance and in that case do it before DDR3 prices start rising again.


LOL 8GB of RAM just became the standard.  Right now is just how 4GB became the standard 7 years ago.  The consoles only have 8GB TOTAL, and so I can 100% guaruntee everyone here that 8GB will be enough for at least 5 more years.