there's a quote often attributed to bill gates that goes something like no one
would ever need more than 640 kilobytes of memory in their computer well turns
out he never actually said that but it got us wondering how much RAM do you
actually need in modern times well let's start with the kind of RAM that most of
us are familiar with the main system memory living inside your desktop or
laptop pc it's quickly becoming common for budget
computers to come with four gigabytes of RAM while mid-range machines often have
eight on the higher end 16 gigs or even
32 gigs of memory is easy to find but is
it worth paying a premium for that here's the deal unless you're seriously
cash-strapped it's worth getting at least eight gigabytes even if you're not
planning to do anything with your computer beyond basic productivity web
browsing and watching fine youtube videos like this one
many common tasks are quickly becoming memory hogs even google chrome can eat
into your memory very quickly and take up a few gigs if you've got a lot of
tabs open and while the browser does use a technique called tab discarding which
removes unused tabs from memory and then reloads them when you access them you'll
still get a noticeably smoother experience for everyday tasks if you
don't skimp too hard on your RAM but what if you're gaming well the answer
becomes a little more complicated you see many big budget titles these days
recommend 16 gigs of memory but the
thing to keep in mind is that system requirements for games often are not
validated well which you can learn more about right up here it turns out that
many games that ask you to use a system with 16 gigs of RAM can actually get by
just fine on 8 with only a very marginal performance drop if any
however as games get more complex this may not be the case in the near future
especially as some games actively do make use of more than 8 gigs of system
memory and only having 8 gigs can also hinder your ability to do anything else
while you're playing a game such as streaming so we'd recommend 16 gigs as a
sweet spot for gamers and especially streamers unless you're playing less
resource heavy titles of course many motherboards have four RAM slots which
makes upgrading to 32 gigs a cinch if you've got the money but investing in
this much is probably only worth it if you're working with lots of data at once
such as large photo sets or editing high
resolution video and especially if you're multitasking creating high
resolution video with you know edited photos in it furthermore with how long
it takes certain kinds of media files to render you'll probably want to use your
rig for other things while your content renders in the background and this is
where having 32 gigs of memory or more if you're into that whole 8k thing can
really come in handy as for 3d modelers animators or
scientists well their memory requirements are basically limited only
by the size of the scenes or the data sets that they're working with
sounds expensive but what if you're trying to figure out how much graphics
memory or vram you need on your graphics card even if two cards have the same
graphics processing unit or GPU they can actually have different amounts of vram
and benchmarks often focus more on the GPU itself than on how it performs
across its various memory configurations so remember that the primary purpose of
vram is to hold the graphics information that the GPU acts upon meaning that
higher resolution gaming and higher resolution textures will require more
vram this is also the case if you're using certain types of anti-aliasing
that involve rendering at effectively higher resolutions such as super
sampling anti-aliasing many mid-range cards come with 4 gigabytes of vram
which as a general rule should do you fine for 1080p gaming as of filming this
video but you'll want at least six for 1440p and about eight or more for 4k
just be sure to read reviews for the titles you want to play because some
particularly demanding games or especially third party mods like
high-resolution texture packs might mean that a card with slightly more vram
would be a great investment if you want to play it high quality
running out of vram can render no pun intended certain games completely
unplayable if you try to bump the resolution up too much meaning that 4k
monitor you just shelled out a bunch of money for won't be living up to its full
potential kind of like that gym membership that you only use twice per
year or not at all right now
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