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[DownLikeBCPowder]

Had 32GB put in my latest build when I made it about 2 or 3 years ago. No plans to upgrade anytime soon which is why I went for 32.

I remember the days of having 8 MB of RAM and Diablo box telling me 16 MB was necessary for "online play". (You could play Bnet with only 8 though, I did).

Also I remember UO I think also wanted 16 but it was a lot more obvious my 8 MB was insufficient for that compared to Diablo. But it was still playable. I was also under the processor recommendations at that time but just barely. I had a Pentium 120 and it wanted 133 mhz. Good times.

 

[hououinkyouma00]

16GB

Never ran into issues, and I only have 2 slots so I don’t want to buy completely new memory.

 

[Rossco EZ]

32GB DDR4 3600 CL16

 

[StereoVsn]

64GB, but only because I have been working with AI models a bit and they are memory hungry. Getting more RAM was a hell of a lot cheaper vs getting a 4090.

 

[ResilientBanana]

I'm hoping to upgrade to a new PC eventually, but it's running fine as of now.

 

[Diseased Yak]

64 GB G Skill Z5 6000

Overkill I know

My exact RAM and quantity. Overkill indeed, but I like having it.

 

[OverHeat]

My wife got those sweet RAM stick

 

[Garibaldi]

64GB but if it was dedicated gaming box I'd have probably just gotten 32GB. I have a load of containers up and running for work purposes, crunching databases for hours so figure more is best.

 

[Tajaz2426]

64 GB G Skill Z5 6000

Overkill I know

Not really both my sons bought their 64 bit Ram stuff from Corsair for around 700 and more. They are idiots, but hey even idiots make money to spend.

Most of us gamers on here probably overkill and spend too much on gaming.

 

[nkarafo]

I had 16GB since 2013, which was overkill but for more than 10 years i never had to upgrade or think about RAM. And i used about 2-4 as RAMdisk storage for some time (which is orders of magnitude faster than the fastest SSD/NVMe drive you can buy, so i used it for cache and other things). Though nowadays i need the full 16GB for RAM so no RAMDisk.

I plan to do the same on my new build so i'm going for 64GB and i will use around 8-16 as RAMdisk and still have more than enough for anything else, plus future proofing.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

16GB

 

[K' Dash]

16GB on an M2 Macbook Air that I use for coding freelancing and watching youtube, Netflix and Courses. More than enough.

 

[Bojji]

Most games are fine on 16GB but as test shows there are some that go above so 32GB is the sweet spot right now. I had 24GB for a while (upgraded from 16GB when HL launched) but losing dual channel is not worth it so now I have 4xDDR4 sticks.

 

[rodrigolfp]

WTF those RAM usages for some games! Hogwarts Legacy and TLOU are indeed crap versions/ports.

 

[bbeach123]

WTF those RAM usages for some games! Hogwarts Legacy and TLOU are indeed crap versions/ports.

Played them on 16g ram and 8g vram 3070 . 1440p dlss quality no RT 60fps lock so its still ok I guess .

 

[Denton]

16, perfectly fine. I have yet to see any game struggle due to RAM.

 

[hinch7]

32GB DDR4. Not in a hurry to replace any time soon. Might even skip DDR5 altogether.

 

[Trogdor1123]

32 gigs of ddr4. Seems to be fine

 

[Esppiral]

I have 13GB on my phone and 8 GB on my pc... Lol

 

[CrustyBritches]

64GB. Not for gaming. Hobbyist projects.

 

[Sanepar]

One thing I can't justify is ddr5, the diff is ridiculous, probably ddr6 will be the real deal in gaming perf.

 

[Itchy Tickles]

32GB DDR 5 6000mhz. I now, from about 4 months ago after building a new PC, play at 4k up to 141 fps, but even then it's rare to go above or close to 16GB (I don't always play the most graphically or power hungry games.) Some games have hit 17-18GB. I did play the MMO New World, and my RAM was hitting near 21GB+ after starting at about 14GB, the counter just kept climbing (even on my last build with 32GB DDR 4 3200mhz playing at 1440p ultrawide) but that game isn't exactly optimised, but it is easily the most ram my PC has ever used.

Edit a few hours later - Played Mortal Kombat 1 as they FINALLY released a patch (PC at least) for 60 fps on all modes and scenes. Noticed my ram usage was between 19 and 20GB in the single player story.

 

[Codes 208]

My 2070 laptop has 32gb of memory (it was originally a 16gb model but i upgraded it shortly after buying)

 

[intheinbetween]

96GB

 

[Crayon]

16. It's Linux and seems to manage it well. Has a smaller footprint in the first place, too. I'll upgrade when I need 32 but doesn't seem to be a thing yet.

 

[Soodanim]

I had 8GB DDR3 when Elden Ring released, and bought 8 more because I was technically under the minimum spec. It didn't make much of a difference, but now I have 16GB.

 

[analog_future]

64GB

It's nice not having to worry about closing background programs.

 

[Audiophile]

My old 2017 Dell laptop which is the worst hunk of crap I've ever bought had 8GB soldered. It's sole job now is processing/converting ripped SACDs, it's barely functional and probably a fire hazard at this point.

My current Lenovo only has 8GB but I've been meaning to upgrade to 16 or 32 forever, will only take a mo' but I just never got round to it. It is starting to choke on brave/chrome browsers a bit.

I wanna build a PC and would give it 32-64GB, but I can't do things by half, gotta build a killer system and I'm looking at waiting til either RTX 60 series or the next AMD arch. I have a very specific setup I wanna do and case choice is limited, I'm an "extreme pre-purchase researcher" (it's half of the fun) and take forever to nail something down.

 

[amigastar]

64 GB G Skill Z5 6000

Overkill I know

Not if you use Zbrush, Blender, Photoshop etc.

 

[Kazdane]

32 GB at the moment. I'll probably switch to 64GB on my next CPU upgrade (since I'll also update my motherboard). But, at the moment, it feels like 32GB is more than enough for most typical use cases.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Not if you use Zbrush, Blender, Photoshop etc.

Some Photoshop not a lot

 

[amigastar]

Some Photoshop not a lot

I use Zbrush, 3d studio max and Photoshop a lot. Currently i'm having 16gb but another 16gb are laying around, just have to build it in.

 

[danklord]

64 GB at a paltry 3600hz clock. Still very snappy but I'm looking forward to feeling the upgrade on my next build.

I jump through Premiere and After Effects, c4d, and UE5 daily. After Effects being the main reason to have a lot of ram, and I need more.

 

[GreatnessRD]

32GB and we gon' run it for a minute, ya dig.

 

[R6Rider]

32GB here

 

[FunkMiller]

32gb DDR5 5600

 

[Calverz]

32GB DDR4 3200mhz

 

[Pegasus Actual]

You guys have those 40 chrome windows open huh ? lol

 

[ChoosableOne]

I upgraded to 32GB because of Returnal, then they lowered the requirements to 16GB. Now I open things in the background just to fill the unused RAM. 16gb is enough for this gen, probably until gta 6 comes.

 

[Vr46]

32gb DDR5 no plans to upgrade.

 

[Meicyn]

I game on a PS5, but my spouse still does PC gaming. Made sure to equip it with 32GB of DDR5 and a 4070Ti with 12GB of VRAM last year when it was time for an upgrade. Should be good for quite some time.

 

[Senua]

16, just like 4 inches. Is fine

 

[Rossco EZ]

16, just like 4 inches. Is fine

 

[StereoVsn]

Some Photoshop not a lot

If you play around with AI models, those are very memory hungry. I am thinking of going up to 128gb when I get a 5090 or a 5080.

 

[simpatico]

32 GB. I've got a few hundred instances of WinRAR running at any given time. Handles it like a champ.

 

[BoxFresh123]

16GB but I Football Manager really fucking hard

 

[Codeblew]

32GB. My next build will be either 64GB or 128GB.

 

[LavitzSlambert]

32GB of DDR3

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

64GB

 

[RayHell]

96GB on my main one.