Is 8 gb ddr3 Enough for gaming

[sai Kote]

MSI Z87-GD65 Gaming Motherboard
Intel 3.4 GHz LGA1150 i74770k
Cooler Master HAF 912Combat
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
Samsung 840 Series 120 GB SSD
Seagate 1 TB HDD
Corsair 850 Watts PSU
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 8GB
ZOTAC GTX 770 2 GB GDDR5
is 8gb ram enough for my above configuration or should i upgrade it to 16 gb,As i'm going to use this for gaming,video playback ,and coding...

 

[jimthenagual]

8 is enough for gaming, you wouldn't notice having 16gb. It's when encoding video etc that you'd want the 16gb.

 

[Immaculate]

jimthenagual correct me if im wrong here.
Wouldn't the extra RAM help out in certain game mods/tweaks.
For example, Skyrim's uGridsToLoad tweak can make your system crash if you don't have enough RAM.

 

[thor220]

jimthenagual correct me if im wrong here.
Wouldn't the extra RAM help out in certain game mods/tweaks.
For example, Skyrim's uGridsToLoad tweak can make your system crash if you don't have enough RAM.

I've been a mod author for a long time and I can say that skyrim won't use that much ram, even heavily modded. The most I've seen it at is 6 gb and this is with many, many mods. Also you should never mess around with the uGridsToLoad setting. It causes crashing and ruins savegames. Lol I know first hand.

I have 16 gb of ram and I just use half of it for a temp file ram disk.

 

[legendkiller]

8GB is going to be the "minimum" in a couple of years as well as 64-Bit Windows, might as well get 16GB of RAM now rather than later...

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Star-Citizen-PC-256428/Specials/Star-Citzen-Systemanforderungen-1085005/

 

[Immaculate]

Yea with it set to 9 I can get about 1 1/2hours in until it CTDs. Just remember to save! lol
I think I had chrome in the background once and crashed because page file was running out on 8GB.

 

[thor220]

Yea with it set to 9 I can get about 1 1/2hours in until it CTDs. Just remember to save! lol
I think I had chrome in the background once and crashed because page file was running out on 8GB.

Hm that's weird. How much ram does your video card have? That's what is eaten up first and is important to have most of.

 

[moulderhere]

It is just MY opinion. If you have the money, MAX out your motherboard with great gaming ram.

 

[Immaculate]

Sapphire 7870Ghz 2GB GDDR5 1050Mhz/1250Mhz
Probably need something like 3GB @ 384bit for heavily modded Skyrim am I right?

Like moulerhere said, if you got money to burn, get the 16GB and if you have more, you don't need 850w unless you want to go SLI.

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