16gb ram overkill?

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im building a system adn looking at how much ram ill need.
is 16gb ram too much if im only running games, internet, streaming video, photoshop?

im trying to future proof this machine, how far off in the future do you think 16g ram will be average/decent?


should i use the 50 bucks for something else and stick with 8gb?
 
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16GB is more than you will ever use.

Unless you do hardcore video encoding or audio engineering, you will never see a benefit to having more than 8GB of RAM. Ever.

1333Mhz with the standard 9-9-9-24 timing is all you need. You can get faster RAM or lower timings, but you will not see a difference outside of benchmarks and a single frame in games.
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16GB is more than you will ever use.

Unless you do hardcore video encoding or audio engineering, you will never see a benefit to having more than 8GB of RAM. Ever.

1333Mhz with the standard 9-9-9-24 timing is all you need. You can get faster RAM or lower timings, but you will not see a difference outside of benchmarks and a single frame in games.
 
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That's a pure waste of money.

If you aren't hosting a business server or engineering with CAD software and converting files to a waterjet or something, you will never, ever use or need more than 8GB of RAM.
 
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May I ask why you are going with AMD?

But yeah, that MB is fine.
 
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If you want to be gaming, you'd be much better off with an i5 3570K. You can get an 212 EVO cooler ($20) and overclock it to 4.2Ghz easily. It will outperform that CPU in games -- even non-overclocked.
 
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im looking for the best for my money or "good enough" purchases for this build.
there will ALWAYS be something better i could buy, if i had the money.

that cpu would bump by budget up by a considerable amount.
 
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Mk. I think it is well worth the small amount extra. But that's your call!
 
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In the next 5 years there "may" not even be PCs anymore.
5 Years in PC world can be HUGE, or a simple upgrade.
If you consider all thats going on (intel going off the motherboard sector, Intel aiming for 5nm processors, etc), impossible to know.

Personally, when ill get my new PC, ill go for 16 Gb "just in case".
But for now, 8 gb is enought for everything (in most cases, 4gb is as well).
 
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