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JEMC said:

Pemalite said:

Just the OS on the SSD. Virtual Memory is usually on the same drive as the OS... And when a game starts demanding more memory than you have in Ram, it starts using Virtual memory instead.
Of course your mileage may vary depending on how memory intensive a game is and how reliant they are on the swap file.
But I have seen some games pass 8GB of ram used on my system.. Once saw Battlefield 1 consume 15GB.

But because you don't really have much of a concern for system responsiveness, you might just be better off finding a cheap 16GB kit of fast, low-latency DDR3 Ram, it may help boost your CPU performance too.

He just upgraded his GPU and is only thinking about getting an SSD because we told him that such upgrade would improve his gaming experience. If we start asking him to change even more parts, he would end spending a lot more in what would basically be a new PC.

Well. Buy the Ram second hand for cheap. 6GB would be borderline these days IMHO. :P

JEMC said:

^That's one way to look at it. The other is that AMD cards age better than the Nvidia ones .

Those numbers are sad to see, with AMD doing so bad. And I know that it would be easy to blame miners for monopolizing all the stock, but the truth is most consumers don't see AMD as a good investment.

That's because they aren't a good investment. They are overpriced for the performance they offer and the power they consume.

Mining has seen AMD's GPU division post some impressive profit numbers though, but it's a bubble and it will have to end eventually.