Best Memory choice for my build

[alexdschell86]

Hi toms crew!
I in a little bit of a pickle. I’m deciding to go with either 8gb or 16gb of ddr4 memory. I plan on buying the EVGA 1070ti sc 8gb as well. Would 8gb combined with my GPU be sufficient enough to run games on ultra at 1080p/1440p? Does the GPU memory overflow over or would i be better off buying the 16gb when i can afford it? I plan on playing games like R6 Siege, PUBG, Arma, and maybe some mmo’s. Thanks for any and all advice!

 

[gigantusmagnus]

currently, 16gb is the standard for gaming rigs
going to 16gb has many benefits, i assume you know the benefits
and, what do you mean by GPU memory overflow ?

 

[alexdschell86]

currently, 16gb is the standard for gaming rigs
going to 16gb has many benefits, i assume you know the benefits
and, what do you mean by GPU memory overflow ?

I was referring to if i bought 8gb, and the game required 9, would it use my video card and then pull the extra 1gb from my motherboard? I am probably going to go with 16gb but I’ve read around a lot that 16gb, even in today’s standards, isn’t much more powerful than 8, however I’d rather take advice from people who currently have build and play games regularly

 

[gigantusmagnus]

No, VRAM and DRAM is 2 different type, insufficient RAM doesn't take a part of VRAM to make it sufficient
and yeah, having 16gb RAM is better even in gaming, allowing me to multi-tasking while playing games

 

[alexdschell86]

No, VRAM and DRAM is 2 different type, insufficient RAM doesn't take a part of VRAM to make it sufficient
and yeah, having 16gb RAM is better even in gaming, allowing me to multi-tasking while playing games

Okay i understand