Your gaming performance will primarily be defined by your GPU card. The vast majority of games do not require (and won't even use) more than 8GB. But 8GB is still plenty.Ī few game titles already require 16GB for best performance. Web browsers are trivial applications, although multiple instances filled with 'heavy' data streams (like multiple pages of youtube and facebook videos) can gobble up memory. Win7/8/10 OS technically requires only 2GB-4GB of main RAM, although it'll happily bloat out to 8GB when able.

At least empty drives (SSD, HDD, USB, etc) can always be filled up later. There is nothing faster in practice than a RAM disk for raw performance.īut there is also nothing more expensive in practice than using RAM for raw data storage, and empty RAM is an expensive waste. HDD storage (fast magnetic media) can access data in a dozen milliseconds.įloppy and tape storage (slow magnetic media) can access data in a few dozen milliseconds.ĬD, DVD, and Blu-Ray ODD storage (optical media) can access data in a hundred milliseconds. Slow SSD and USB storage (flash NVRAM) can access data in a few dozen milliseconds. Processor cache (on-die volatile SRAM) can access data virtually instantaneously.ĭDR4 (volatile SDRAM) can access data in a few nanoseconds.įirmware and fast SSD/NVMe/PCIe storage (flash NVRAM) can access data in a dozen nanoseconds. Join Date Mar 2015 Reputation 152 Posts 2,719

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