Would 8gb ram be enough for a gaming computer?

Question

Would 8gb ram be enough for a gaming computer?

Answer 1

i currently am using 16 gigs of ram in my machine and i have maxxed out every game that has come out so far and not one single game has used 8 gigs. ram is pretty cheap anyway, so my personal opinion is to use that money on something else until you actually need the ram. as far as windows 7 being good for gaming, it's the best you are going to get. windows 8 still has a ton of bugs in it and doesnt support every game, macs suck *** for gaming, and though linux machines run with the least amount of resources, most games are unsupported on them as well. so windows 7 is your best bet.



hope this helps!

Answer 2

You can run a gaming pc on 4gb of ram, ram just generally allows you to run more than one program at a time more smoothly. So yeah 8 is more than enough.

Answer 3

That spec is good enough to run most games on high. But some games like BF3 and AC3 will need to be run at a little lower config. to get the lag-free gaming



On the whole, this is a good spec and 8gb of ram is more than enough..

Answer 4

For gaming i might argue that 6gb of ram is lovely plenty however considering the fact that ram is dust low priced now 8gb would be excellent for that and would not even get almost overloading the ram cappicity for modifying and 3d modeling however you may also want extra ram than 8, anything like 10, 12 or sixteen would be satisfactory i'd recommend not more than 12gb of ram (however at 1866mhz for rapid speeds) when you settled for eight 10 or 12 you could constantly have the extra cash to upgrade whatever else, and even put it toward a second/0.33 display (in case you dont already have)

Answer 5

I use 8GB high performance, and its pretty niiice.

Answer 6

yes just get 1600 or faster

Answer 7

Yes, It's more than enough.

Answer 8

yes 8gbs at 1600Mhz would be great for gaming but id up that PSU wattage i think your 7950 requires 550 watt by itself, also i would get a fx 8350 its only $10 more than the 8150 and has a %20-30 better performance ratio than the 8150 because of the pile driver architecture

Answer 9

for a desktop, make sure ram is 1600 Mhz or higher

for most gamers, 4 GB of RAM is plenty, 8GB of RAM will last you until your video card/cpu/motherboard are outdated. In other words, it is plenty.



Do keep in mind that if you are using less than 80-85% if your RAM, then adding more will do ABSOLUTELY nothing for performance. RAM will only improve the system when RAM shortage is the cause of a performance problem.



Windows 7 is great for gaming. Technically Windows 8 would be a little better but the interface for it blows.

Answer 10

8 gb of what kind of ram?

DDR 1 ? 2 ? 3? 5?



what kind of socket?

type?





judging by the stuff you have listed.

you are probably getting DDr 3 ram, 240 socket slot size.



if yes then i would say yah thats enough. if its 1600 mhz speed. if its some cheap crap, then no.

Answer 11

Personally, I use Windows XP for gaming, I don't need all the fancy Windows junk to get me through the day. 8gb is very good but, that also depends on what you're trying to play, just look at the ram requirements on the game, then add 2 more Gigs to that number and you have what you should probably be using, for instance, The new Tomb Raider video game requires a minimum of 1gb of ram, it's recommended however is 2, so personally I would go with 4, and since you have 8, and that's a brand new game, I'd say your pretty well off with just about anything in the next 2-3 years, keep gaming brother.

Answer 12

Yes 8GB is plenty for the avid gamer. I answered a similar question over here https://answersrip.com/question/index?qid=20110715122520AAVPwVd shows you I was gaming with my browser and more than a few pc monitors running AND I had Prime 95 running on blend. Prime 95 is used by many to test stability of their overclocked or stock speed computers. It pushes the heck out of your CPU and your RAM when it's on blend. Bioshock 2 with all details on high isn't a lightweight either. I had ZERO issues. 8GB RAM is PLENTY. Looking back I wish I would have also checked on the RAM usage. I guess regardless of the fact that I didn't see the RAM usage numbers I didn't have problems so no worries. 8 will be fine. I was using 8GB of G.Skill 1333MHz CAS 9 RAM.



EDIT: Okay. I went ahead and started Prime 95 on blend(lots of RAM usage), Speccy, CPU Temp, AOL Radio with a few other tabs open including Y.A. of course, had a channel in justin.tv playing on mute and was playing Batman: AC(options maxed out with 32xCSAA) with my task manager's performance monitor running . I ALT+Tab'd out of Batman: AC and the magic number was only 4738MB. Now I will do a bit of recording with fraps.



I am using a 2500K with an EVGA 570 Classified and 8GB RAM.



With Fraps recording and everything else running including Prime 95 on blend the magic number was 4820MB . This is complete overkill. My PC is using more RAM than what your scenario ever could.



Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to run this little test. It'll help with future questions concerning RAM usage.





Yes Windows 7 is great for gaming. I was a die hard XP gamer for YEARS but finally went kicking and screaming over to Windows 7. Not sure what all my fussing was about now.

Answer 13

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