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Originally Posted by kccrow
IMHO, not much sense in spending the extra money on something you won't need. For instance, you need 4GB to run a couple of items you mentioned, especially GTA6. GTA6 would run better with 8GB, but it wouldn't likely ever use much of the extra 4 GB.
Here's a great article on it: http://www.pcauthority.com.au/Featur...ally-need.aspx
In any event.... do what you want, but I wouldn't go over 16GB unless you are doing some very graphics intensive shit, editing, what Dane does, whatever. 8GB is pretty well the "norm" at this point in the game with most things needing 4GB as a baseline.
Put the money into an SSD instead of extra 8GB RAM and you'll have a much better performance boost than going with an HDD and 16GB RAM.
I game on an i5 system with 8gb ram and a radeon hd 7850 2gb vid card. its about an $850 system. I can pretty well can play anything on all of the highest level graphics with absolutely no issues whatsoever. Get 300 fps in counter-strike go. |
If forced to choose (which I was with my current rig), spend more money on the SSD and plan on upgrading the RAM when you need it. If you're stuck with a platter hard drive, then definitely go with 16GB of RAM.
Not being a Windows PC person, I'm not sure what SSD options are available but you should try to find the fastest bus connection you can too. I've got the PCIe SSD in my iMac and the SATA SSD for my Mac Pro and for a lot of stuff my iMac seems faster even though it was a fraction of the cost.
Overall, if you want to spend $500-600 on web browsing and games I'd say get a PS4 and a cheap tablet, but that's not as much fun as building a PC.