The amount of RAM needed is frequently debated on computer posts.
- How much ram do you have?
- What do you use your computer for?
- Is it sufficient?
How Much RAM Do You Have? (2022 Edition)
ihfree on 08/10/2022 - 09:49
Last edited 08/10/2022 - 14:22 by 1 other user
Last edited 08/10/2022 - 14:22 by 1 other user
Poll Options
- 92GB
- 84GB
- 718GB
- 228GB (Apple silicon)
- 61416GB
- 5216GB (Apple silicon)
- 61432GB
- 1932GB (Apple silicon)
- 12464GB
- 1264GB (Apple silicon)
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Ryzen 7900x 3080ti 32gb of ram for VMS and gaming. Games like cyberpunk with all the eye candy turned on use more 16gb but not much more. At work we set a min of 16gb for all staff a couple years ago the cost was minimal and benefited most staff
What is the rest of your setup? Been thinking of upgrading my 3900X, but not sure if I should just go 5900X (this is what I am leaning heavily towards doing) as the cost of MBs seems pretty high. What MB did you get to go with the 7900X?
The cost of the new motherboards and CPU is very high at moment. I built with the MSI PRO X670-P WIFI Motherboard my only regret is it doesn't have many USB ports. Its been very stable and no weird early adopter issues. I also installed a couple pny gen4 2tb M2 drives. It took about 5 mins to install windows 11. The 3900x is a good cpu but in your situation I would buy the 5900 as you get a decent performance bump for very little cash if you can sell the 3900.
24GB Gaming rig
16GB Desktop
16GB Laptop
8GB Work computer limited by with 32bit win10 :(I find 16gb win10 starts to run low once you allow multiple browser tabs, VMs and sandbox environment.
8GB DDR4 for my office issued laptop. Mainly Excel and Teams. Horribly insufficient.
64GB. For Photoshop + Lightroom mainly.
Still rocking surface pro 2017 16GB as personal device.
Hp z book power 32 GB for work.Fairly intensive apps for work but neither of the devices failed at anything i needed them for.
How much ram do you have? - 64GB
What do you use your computer for? - Work
Is it sufficient? - Yes, but it is aging. 4.5 years old, 24/7 running and 5 days a week heavy usage. Looking to upgrade soon.64gb here.
Tried only 32 but I like to run game servers for friends/family on occasion and 64 allows me to do that more freely in a VirtualBox or something, without impacting performance otherwise.
I do Plex hosting with media fetching apps, high poly 3d modelling, fractal art generation, the odd game server, video editing, and gaming/web browsing all on the same PC and never have to worry about ram.
For my applications 32 could be enough. But I'd have to be conscious of it, eg closing down browser windows or background game services if launching a ram heavy application.
On my latest PC I went for single channel 2x32 sticks - copping the performance hit, so I can expand to 128 if necessary. Sometimes I feel it might be worth doing so, when video editing or doing fractal art generation specifically.
64 pc, 32 laptop. I’m content enough.
64gig ram, 11700k, 3090, 2tb nvme ssd, 4x 14tb raid 5 for storage. Wrapped in a fractal define 7 xl.
Vr gaming, photo editing, plex.
8gb on my 2014 mac. My next one must have 16+
64 GB in M1 Max MacBook Pro here.
Best device I've ever used.
Looking at the Activity Monitor, it shows 46 GB of RAM is being used typically any given time. I am a heavy user.
The amount of people here using mismatched RAM is hurting me inside.
32gb ddr5
I9- 12900kf/3090where my 128gb friends at?
In those "work" boxes…. that play WoW all day?
https://imgur.com/a/docFD51I'm close I guess, currently using 385583MiB
Depend on what you use your computer for. I have to do development on my pc. I use Virtual Box to emulate couple app servers, database, AD… I normally consume 90% ram of out 32GB. I think I would need to upgrade to 64GB in future.
64 GB
I don't play video games, and I quite often max it out.
I am a Software Engineer and do ML Engineering as well.
I normally have multiple applications open at the same time.Personal: i7-8565U with 16GB RAM, MX150, and GTX1070 eGPU.
Work: Xeon W-11955M, 64GB RAM, RTX A3000
My desktop PC (5950x, 2080 Ti) mainly used for web browsing and gaming has 64GB of 3600Mhz CL14 DDR4 - Not for any real reason, but Ryzen does have a good bit of a performance uplift with faster RAM, and I just decided to get more because I can. Before that I had 32GB which I have just about hit because I open tons of YouTube tabs in Chrome.
My laptop (M1 Macbook Air) has 16GB; my NAS (also with a 5950x) currently has 32GB though I've been thinking of increasing that at some point.
128GB in 5950x, 64GB in 3950X
Lots of VMs for work and with all the extra cores and ram have consolidated/virtualised some devices.I have the exact same setup. ESXi on one and workstation on the other.
5900X 2080 and 32GB. Do video editing so occasionally have issues running out of both RAM and VRAM, def recommend 40+ for video
KiwiBargain gave an entirely different set of poll options.
Work laptop has 64gb, home PC has 32gb
16GB at the moment. I'm getting into 3d rendering as a personal hobby, and i'm looking for 64GB for my next upgrade.
Also looking at getting a 4090, but more likely a 3090 depending on the benchmarks.
I find that for most gaming needs 32gb is plenty.
Threadripper Pro + 256GB RAM. No option for it.
5950x, 64 GB RAM
I use my PC for games and as a server. Also, lots of VMs in the background.
Yes, for me it is sufficient.
I use Fedora.
8gb on both my main laptop and desktop. It has been the sweet spot of price/performance for the last 5 years for me. I only do light gaming and Web browsing though.
Same.
I've found 8GB to be just right for basic, non-gaming desktop activities.( Also, a nicely debloated Win10 machine does wonders )
32GB RAM
2TB HDDAs in a mechanical HDD?
No. SSD.
32GB RAM PC
16GB RAM Dell Laptop
32GB for my work laptop. Use it for accounting - Excel and Power BI development. More than enough - rarely go over 60-65%.
16GB for my home machine.
128GB in the main machine, but that's for fat VMs.
As the low-RAM new M1/M2 Macbooks have shown, swapping to fast SSDs when you run out of RAM is way less of a performance hit than swapping to spinning rust HDD's of yore.
128gb
Waiting for 4090 card to complete build
I just upgraded my OG xbox from 64MB to 128MB!
128gb @ 3600mhz on my gaming rig, 128gb @ 3200 on my work workstation. 16gb on my laptop.
64kb. 38911 basic bytes free.
- Gaming desktop - 32GB
- Gaming laptop - 32GB
- Work issued laptop - 32GB
- NUC11 - 64GB (energy efficient, runs VMs, containers and anything else I'm fiddling with at home that I don't want breaking my usual machines).
If we're counting all systems, 176GB here.
- Work Laptop 32GB
- Desktop 1 32GB (Gaming)
- Desktop 2 NUC 64GB (Job 1)
- Desktop 3 NUC 32GB (Job 2)
- NAS 1 8GB
- NAS 2 8GB
That's like those marketing spin claiming 60 years of 'experience'
for a 5-person team (because all persons have a combined 60+ years experience)
2gb
Dell OptiPlex 3010 - used a remote workstation so don't need much grunt8GB in all the computers in this household, except one used for occasional gaming, which was upgraded to 16GB a couple of years ago to run Forza Horizon 4 smoothly.
Living room HTPC was upgraded from 4 to 8GB about 6 months ago when it began using more RAM after a Windows update causing slight lag browsing Netflix.
Usage is light browsing, general office apps, Roblox etc for the kids. CPUs are all reasonably modern - 2nd gen Ryzen, 9th and 10th gen i5.
Honestly, if I were to build a new PC tomorrow I'd give it 8GB, unless the step up to 16GB was <$50. 8GB is the sweet spot in 2022, unless you are gaming, run specialist apps (Adobe) or VMs. Coming from a guy that used to max out his PC with RAM in the 1990s.
my 2011 laptop runs fine with 8GB, milady's new laptop runs faster with 16GB (but is also 11 years newer chip, etc.)
I'm guessing that 8GB is enough for most web browsing, email, and document preparation
while much more is desired for gamers
No 24GB option? Computer came with 8GB and I added another 16GB.
I should have used ranges. The number of people running mismatched capacities is higher than I expected
192… MB.
4 * 4 = 16 GB
Built about 6 years ago
384GB - VMware ESX box #1
384GB - VMware ESX box #2
32GB - M1 Pro MBP
32GB - M1 Max MBP
32GB - Gaming PC
20GB - Synology NAS
16GB - M1 Mac Mini
8GB - Intel NUC
4GB - opnsense box
4GB x2 - Raspberry Pis384GB - VMware ESX box #1
384GB - VMware ESX box #2sounds like some PoS block-producing going on ;-)
- 16 GB w/ i7-3630QM and GTX 670MX
- web browsing, office work (Word, Excel), light photo editing; occasionally some gaming (although struggles with some intensive games like Supreme Commander)
- Not quite
Stopping at 64GB, rookie numbers. Main workstation is on 128GB but other servers have over 2TB collectively.
48gb 2x8 + 2x16 3200mhz @16/18/18/38 overclocked to 3333mhz
Totally unnecessary, the 32gb would be enough, but the 5600x seems to run faster with all 4 dimms filledIf from my understanding your an artist 32 gigs sufficient, if gamer 16gigs sufficient.
But entirely dependent on shared resources of system memory and GPU.
16GB here. I really don't use my PC much anymore and it was never really a gaming PC to begin with. Just enough to run Windows comfortable and have it act as a media server but with the wife constantly subbing to more and more streaming services (and the both of us becoming parents and having less time for TV shows) that's becoming a bit redundant now too.
I currently have 32GB installed on my 3900X based AM4 system. Been thinking of upgrading to 64GB as I run a lot of stuff in the background and am finding 32GB is not quite enough.
My current RAM is running at 3600Mhz 18-18-18-39 timings (4 sticks of RAM). Would I notice much difference going to slower 3200Mhz RAM at worse timings? Also, I am looking to upgrade to a 5900X at some point and not sure if it's better to have 4 sticks of RAM with that CPU? Would getting 2 x 32GB modules (I would prefer this in case I wanted to upgrade later on to 128GB) cause any performance decrease over having a 4 x 16GB configuration? I seem to remember reading when Zen 3 first came out that it performed better with 4 sticks of RAM installed?
Our 3 gaming PCs have 64gig of 4ghz patriot viper DDR4 with if running at 2ghz on 2 of them and 3800mhz on one with the if at 1.9ghz as it’s not quite as good as the other cpus. 32 was enough already but chasing absolute max fps always on 360hz and 240hz screens on an amd setups so loaded all the dimms
What is the model or RAM you have? Looking at getting a decent priced 64GB that also is 3600Mhz or higher.
Patriot viper elite. Got it from Amazon
Did you have a link I could look at? I have looked myself, but not sure if you got 4 x 16GB or 2 x 32GB? A;so, did you get the Elite or Elite II (the reviews for the elite II aren't good). I have heard good things about Patriot Viper RAM in the past, but those reviews on the front page of the Elite II don't sound too good.
32gb..its a lot but gives you headroom for some games
My 16GB of DDR4 will live on in my raptor lake build.
How much ram do i have?
128gb DDR4 Patriot viperwhat do i use it for?
- Gaming
- CAD
- the rig is currently in is my workstation, but when DDR5 becomes worthwhile i'll likely be moving this rig to be my unraid server, which is where the RAM really comes in to use for all the dockers and VM's i run.Is it sufficient?
it's a complete and utter overkill, completely unnescessary. I don't think i have ever reached a situation where i neared using it all.Reason for purchase
Honestly, i got really lucky with a auction purchase from one of those auction houses (was either pickles, manheim, hillco, or lloyds), i thought i was just buying 64gb of ram. They screwed up their listing stating it was 2x32gb DDR4 ram….When i went to go pickup what it actually was was 2x 2 sets of 32gb DDR4 ram….making it 128gb total. Funnily enough i got the lot for about $110. Keep in mind that although it was really cheap, the risk i faced was that there are absolutely no returns, so if it was DOA, it's my loss, Fortunately though this didn't happen.How much ram do i think you need?
For gaming, i reckon 32 is a good number, gives you some decent headroom for growth, and priced well.We have some servers at work with 768GB ram. I keep getting caught out at home creating VMs with 16GB and then only being able to run one.
8GB Macbook Air, anymore would be unnecessary I guess because Apple just does things better.
It keeps the cost down too which is a bonus.
Resale value is very high too so if I need more ram in the future I'll just sell it and buy the current model.8GB Macbook Air, anymore would be unnecessary I guess because Apple just does things better.
8 GB is 8 GB, can't load anything which needs more than 8 GB, ex: a matrix which is > 8 GB
I'm a Macbook Air user - it runs Firefox and Spotify at the same time, what more do I need?
My main desktop is 8gb, it's mostly used for work/ music editing / YouTube and very basic gaming.
I think the poll options should have been in Google chrome tabs.
Firefox >
128GB
Wasn't in the polls32 GB = Main Desktop
24 GB = Main LaptopTBH, I also have a laptop with 16 MB of pure EDO RAM :D
Personal laptop 16GB
Personal desktop 32GB
Work laptop 64GB
Work desktop 128GB
I have 16GB from the box for my last laptop and I upgraded to 64GB for better multimedia editing purpose.
I have 16GB for my current handheld game console shaped PC which isn't able to upgrade.
I have 32GB of RAM, AMD 5900X, NVidia 3080.
I use my computer for software development and gaming.
It is sufficient.Nuc Enthusiast I7 Gen 11 - 64GB - Mostly for Cities Skyline as that drinks about 20GB+ and running my virtual test lab. (So quiet)
16” M1 Pro - 32GB - only due to 10% off sale stocked models at JB and an extra 32GB would have been an extra $1100 at that price - for which I am not sure what the benifit would be. Cities Skylines maybe? Mainly used for general home use, some Mac gammons (Apple Arcade) and Logic Pro.
NAS - 16GB - helps with snapraid and running cams etc.
I got a HP COMPAQ ELITE 8300 with an i7-2600, GTX 1050 Ti Low Profile and 32gb DDR3 Ram.
Here is the kicker I don't know what brand the psu is but it's only 240 watts lol.
All hail cheap ex office refurbished sff pc deals.
Oh and it has a DVD combo drive I believe so eat your heart out. No floppy drive though sad.
3 storage drives 2 ssd's and 1 mechanical hard drive.
I am waiting for the psu to kick it just don't know when since that is probably the weakest link.
It is roughly 3 years old now but I believe it was used beforehand.
Nothing has failed much but the power supply has had some issues along the way but all fixed by either cleaning the dust out or reseating the ram or the last time I did a cmos reset aka take the motherboard button battery out and hold power button for ten seconds while the pc was unplugged. Fixed my jet engine psu fan spinning no post no booting problem when I accidentally turned off the pc too fast without it shutting down properly.
I have a new pc to replace it soon just need to figure out a WiFi adapter solution.
Yeah.
I use my computer for mostly gaming and discord. 4k low settings overwatch 2 somehow works so it is sufficient.
My new prebuilt pc is going to be great though for more multi-tasking. Going to have fun with DALL·E and Stable Diffusion.
16GB of some very fast b die
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3930k 48GB DDR3 2400
G3258 8GB DDR3 3200