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Article #721255Re: OT - 16GB RAM ?
From: Rin Stowleigh
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:35
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:35
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On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:03:10 -0800 (PST), Justisaur <just...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Sunday, January 17, 2016 at 6:17:19 PM UTC-8, Trimble Bracegirdle wrote: >> The RAM hungriest game I know of is COD Advanced Warfare. >> Its official spec say 6 GB RAM min. >> In fact it needs more as they don't seem to have included the system needs. >> I see it just touching 8 GB total. >> >> I know re. super hungry Video editing apps. >> But thinking of our sort of general Home Gaming use. >> I can't see in system monitor much disk caching type usage. >> Looks like 8 GB is enough. > >I'm still running 4 and haven't had any problems. I'd probably be better >off with 8, but my mb is fairly old and on't take the newer faster ram, so >I keep thinking it's not worth it to upgrade the ram unless I'm >upgrading everything, which is a bit out of my range for value. Curious how many newer games you're running? Most of the recent ones (last couple of years) I've paid any attention to specify minimum 6GB, recommended 8GB (minimum spec can usually be discarded for purposes of a reasonable level of enjoyment). Fallout 4 is one that comes to mind that says 8 for both minimum and recommended. Of course, a game never knows what other apps or services might be running at the same time on any given machine, so I would always interpret the minimum GB as a "with nothing else running" number. I would have thought the installer would block many of these from installing if there's not enough RAM for minimum spec, but I have not tested that theory. Has your experience been different?
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