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there's a quote often attributed to bill gates that goes something like no one

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would ever need more than 640 kilobytes of memory in their computer well turns

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out he never actually said that but it got us wondering how much RAM do you

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actually need in modern times well let's start with the kind of RAM that most of

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us are familiar with the main system memory living inside your desktop or

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laptop pc it's quickly becoming common for budget

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computers to come with four gigabytes of RAM while mid-range machines often have

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eight on the higher end 16 gigs or even

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32 gigs of memory is easy to find but is

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it worth paying a premium for that here's the deal unless you're seriously

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cash-strapped it's worth getting at least eight gigabytes even if you're not

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planning to do anything with your computer beyond basic productivity web

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browsing and watching fine youtube videos like this one

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many common tasks are quickly becoming memory hogs even google chrome can eat

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into your memory very quickly and take up a few gigs if you've got a lot of

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tabs open and while the browser does use a technique called tab discarding which

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removes unused tabs from memory and then reloads them when you access them you'll

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still get a noticeably smoother experience for everyday tasks if you

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don't skimp too hard on your RAM but what if you're gaming well the answer

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becomes a little more complicated you see many big budget titles these days

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recommend 16 gigs of memory but the

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thing to keep in mind is that system requirements for games often are not

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validated well which you can learn more about right up here it turns out that

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many games that ask you to use a system with 16 gigs of RAM can actually get by

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just fine on 8 with only a very marginal performance drop if any

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however as games get more complex this may not be the case in the near future

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especially as some games actively do make use of more than 8 gigs of system

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memory and only having 8 gigs can also hinder your ability to do anything else

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while you're playing a game such as streaming so we'd recommend 16 gigs as a

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sweet spot for gamers and especially streamers unless you're playing less

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resource heavy titles of course many motherboards have four RAM slots which

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makes upgrading to 32 gigs a cinch if you've got the money but investing in

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this much is probably only worth it if you're working with lots of data at once

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such as large photo sets or editing high

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resolution video and especially if you're multitasking creating high

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resolution video with you know edited photos in it furthermore with how long

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it takes certain kinds of media files to render you'll probably want to use your

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rig for other things while your content renders in the background and this is

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where having 32 gigs of memory or more if you're into that whole 8k thing can

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really come in handy as for 3d modelers animators or

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scientists well their memory requirements are basically limited only

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by the size of the scenes or the data sets that they're working with

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sounds expensive but what if you're trying to figure out how much graphics

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memory or vram you need on your graphics card even if two cards have the same

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graphics processing unit or GPU they can actually have different amounts of vram

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and benchmarks often focus more on the GPU itself than on how it performs

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across its various memory configurations so remember that the primary purpose of

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vram is to hold the graphics information that the GPU acts upon meaning that

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higher resolution gaming and higher resolution textures will require more

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vram this is also the case if you're using certain types of anti-aliasing

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that involve rendering at effectively higher resolutions such as super

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sampling anti-aliasing many mid-range cards come with 4 gigabytes of vram

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which as a general rule should do you fine for 1080p gaming as of filming this

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video but you'll want at least six for 1440p and about eight or more for 4k

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just be sure to read reviews for the titles you want to play because some

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particularly demanding games or especially third party mods like

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high-resolution texture packs might mean that a card with slightly more vram

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would be a great investment if you want to play it high quality

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running out of vram can render no pun intended certain games completely

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unplayable if you try to bump the resolution up too much meaning that 4k

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monitor you just shelled out a bunch of money for won't be living up to its full

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