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Post by Bismarck Jr on Sept 25, 2016 19:41:29 GMT
I want to know how far you guys think people should go in building a PC, specifically for gaming.
How much RAM do you think you need before it stops having a real effect that is worth the money?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2016 20:43:02 GMT
16 fast or 24 a bit slower
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Post by Desophaeus on Sept 26, 2016 1:45:44 GMT
I want to know how far you guys think people should go in building a PC, specifically for gaming. How much RAM do you think you need before it stops having a real effect that is worth the money? Problem is, how modern or how retro do you plan to play? If totally modern and all that... 8 GB should be fine for the next few years for sure. Anything beyond 12 or 16 gb is pure overkill and pointless. But let say retro... 8 MB is overkill sometimes lol.  Anyway, middle of the road is 8 gb, very decent investment for your expenses, unless you're modding with 3D rendered models inserted into games, then I suggest you plan accordingly to the 3D rendering needs instead. I'm not sure what's the current benchmark for 2016. |
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Post by Bismarck Jr on Sept 26, 2016 19:31:09 GMT
I want to know how far you guys think people should go in building a PC, specifically for gaming. How much RAM do you think you need before it stops having a real effect that is worth the money? Problem is, how modern or how retro do you plan to play? If totally modern and all that... 8 GB should be fine for the next few years for sure. Anything beyond 12 or 16 gb is pure overkill and pointless. But let say retro... 8 MB is overkill sometimes lol. Anyway, middle of the road is 8 gb, very decent investment for your expenses, unless you're modding with 3D rendered models inserted into games, then I suggest you plan accordingly to the 3D rendering needs instead. I'm not sure what's the current benchmark for 2016. Modern for me, well, fairly modern. My favourite games are oldies. *cough*Morrowing*cough* 12GB Is considered the standard for seamlessness |
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Post by Desophaeus on Sept 26, 2016 23:21:02 GMT
Problem is, how modern or how retro do you plan to play? If totally modern and all that... 8 GB should be fine for the next few years for sure. Anything beyond 12 or 16 gb is pure overkill and pointless. But let say retro... 8 MB is overkill sometimes lol. Anyway, middle of the road is 8 gb, very decent investment for your expenses, unless you're modding with 3D rendered models inserted into games, then I suggest you plan accordingly to the 3D rendering needs instead. I'm not sure what's the current benchmark for 2016. Modern for me, well, fairly modern. My favourite games are oldies. *cough*Morrowing*cough* 12GB Is considered the standard for seamlessness You've answered your own question just now. Go with that. 12 gb sounds good.  |
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Post by Bismarck Jr on Sept 27, 2016 0:19:20 GMT
Modern for me, well, fairly modern. My favourite games are oldies. *cough*Morrowing*cough* 12GB Is considered the standard for seamlessness You've answered your own question just now. Go with that. 12 gb sounds good. Oh no I wasn't asking for myself, I just wanted to know what other people thought. |
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Post by Bismarck Jr on Sept 27, 2016 0:20:05 GMT
Daer God, I meant to say Morrowind, not Morrowing.
Strike me down, for I have commited crime against nature
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Post by Desophaeus on Sept 27, 2016 0:28:59 GMT
Daer God, I meant to say Morrowind, not Morrowing. Strike me down, for I have commited crime against nature Being dyslexic for a moment isn't a crime.  I do that from time to time. Lol |
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Post by Bismarck Jr on Sept 27, 2016 0:41:53 GMT
Daer God, I meant to say Morrowind, not Morrowing. Strike me down, for I have commited crime against nature Being dyslexic for a moment isn't a crime. I do that from time to time. Lol It doesn't help that I'm not English either D and G aren't even too close together either... blech |
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Post by Philip II of Macedon on Sept 29, 2016 1:40:08 GMT
More RAM is always better obviously, but I'd say anything past 16 gb is overkill unless you are doing rendering work on it. I have 16 and its really nice being able to keep many tabs open and everything is seemless.
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Post by Desophaeus on Sept 29, 2016 14:25:27 GMT
Semi-related... it's funny when I had set up a classic mac emulator on my laptop (specifically for playing retro mac games), it went nuts when I gave it 16 mb ram. Occasionally it hiccups and speed up a little too much while running on 8 mb, but it definitely crashes if it has only 4 mb ram. I have to use that one specific setting, 8 mb.
It makes you wonder how people manages to get along with so little in the past.
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