For Games, Does 4GB vs. 12GB Matter?

I wont do some multitasking while playing or video editing. Just games games games. Does it really matter? Will I notice the difference?

I wont do some multitasking while playing or video editing. Just games games games. Does it really matter? Will I notice the difference?

Me_Ann

I believe 8gb is still overkill

So 4GB will run all and any games fine?

So 4GB will run all and any games fine?

Me_Ann

Yes, but depending on what other applications you have open at the same time it might not be enough. I would recommend 6-8Gb if you plan on multitasking while gaming. Memory is really cheap right now so it never hurts to get more than not have enough.

I believe 8gb is still overkill

kaitanuvax

THANKS GUYS!

Memory is so darn cheap who cares? :P go for the 12

Cuz Im planning on a gaming laptop guys(travelling a lot). And would it void the warranty if I put more memory?

Cuz Im planning on a gaming laptop guys(travelling a lot). And would it void the warranty if I put more memory?

Me_Ann

For a laptop 8GB is a must due to the fact that they usually have slower hard drives to save on heat and power. get your laptop with 8GB and disable the pagefile. that way there will be no buffering to the HDD and it will help speed up your system some.

I have never, ever, had a game use more than 4GB. I barely see my counter go over 3GB...V4LENT1NE

4gb, 6gb, 8gb or 12gb of ram cost almost the same so why not get the most as possible : D.

No gaming performance difference between 4 and 12 might as well get 4.

I'd get 8 since it's so cheap now. I've seen both Crysis and GTA use about 2GB by themselves.

$100 bucks for 16gb of 1600 ddr3, **** it... toss in as much as you can imo...

I'd get 8 since it's so cheap now. I've seen both Crysis and GTA use about 2GB by themselves.

kraken2109

Point is 8GB in most cases I've seen is about $10 more than 4GB. Why be cheap?

Point is 8GB in most cases I've seen is about $10 more than 4GB. Why be cheap?

Masenkoe

4gb ram is $25 and 8gb ram is $50

But that's beside the point. The point is that it doesn't matter. The claim that Crysis and GTA4 used 2GB ram is a load of dung. I've played them both perfectly on 3GB ram. I only had to upgrade to 3.5GB for The Witcher 2 - now that game used up to 1.7GB.

Point is 8GB in most cases I've seen is about $10 more than 4GB. Why be cheap?

Masenkoe

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Point is 8GB in most cases I've seen is about $10 more than 4GB. Why be cheap?

kaitanuvax

4gb ram is $25 and 8gb ram is $50

But that's beside the point. The point is that it doesn't matter. The claim that Crysis and GTA4 used 2GB ram is a load of dung. I've played them both perfectly on 3GB ram. I only had to upgrade to 3.5GB for The Witcher 2 - now that game used up to 1.7GB.

Depends on the game and how you run your rig. i5750at4Ghz

This.

Newegg had g.skill sniper 8gb 1600 for $34 shipped as a shell shocker last week. I picked up a set to go up to 16gb.

With chrome with 20-30 tabs, IE with 20 tabs, steam, origin, fraps, utorrent, core temp, afterburner, my minecraft server, minecraft mininized, playing BF3, and streams going an another monitor I was pushing 7gb used. So it just depends on what you do. To say more than 4gb is overkill isn't always the case...

I have never, ever, had a game use more than 4GB. I barely see my counter go over 3GB...V4LENT1NE

unless you are making games like me xD

i upgraded to 8GB from 4GB becuase i was always going from 1.92GB and when i am making models i go as high as 3.82GB being use, and if i have photoshop opened i go up as high as 4.01GB

My rig is using 2 gigs right now with just 3 tabs in firefox open.

I'd never go below 8 in a new rig, you can never have enough RAM even if you can game just fine with 4.

I still consider 6 the absolute minimum.

[QUOTE="kraken2109"] I have both those games and on my Logitech LCD the RAM is barely over 2.5GB on the whole system, thats including the around 1.5GB Windows 7 uses on average. Never seen those games use much over 1GB never mind 2GB at max settings...

V4LENT1NE

I ran Crysis on a PC with 8GB of Ram on high settings. On the final level with the boss and the ship Crysis was using 2GB of ram (According to r_displayinfo 1).

Do you really I think I'd bother lying?

Also when I ran GTAIV on 4GB the system was using about 90% of the ram.

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Point is 8GB in most cases I've seen is about $10 more than 4GB. Why be cheap?

kaitanuvax

4gb ram is $25 and 8gb ram is $50

But that's beside the point. The point is that it doesn't matter. The claim that Crysis and GTA4 used 2GB ram is a load of dung. I've played them both perfectly on 3GB ram. I only had to upgrade to 3.5GB for The Witcher 2 - now that game used up to 1.7GB.

You can accuse me of lying all you want, but why would i bother lying about that? It's just what I've found.

If you have the more is better, i think i'm going to upgrade to 16gb at 1600 later this year

Nope,it won't,unless you are using 64 bit OS. Hell,in a 32-bit OS,with a 512mb Gpu,a system refuses to use even 4gb of Ram!