RAM help for new rig

OllieBooton

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Hi i am planning on buying a new pc and need help deciding on how much ram to get. I will have an i5 4690k with standard cooling a 650 corsair vs power supply plus an nvidia gtx 960. I will be looking for great performance in games such as fallout 4 and black ops 3 but aslo interested in recording and editing. I am debating to get either a S-ATAIII 2tb harddrive or a 1tb seagate (hybrid 8gb ssd). Also the choice is between 8gb of 2133mhz or 16gb of 1833ghz. Any help would be greatly appreciated! 😀
 
For just gaming 8GB is all you will need but since your also going to be editing I would get 16gb of 1866 in a 2X8gb set.
If your going to be recording game play get 2 X 1tb drives you need to have the game loaded on your main drive and just use the other to record to. Uncompressed footage will eat up about 90 GB per hour depending on your settings.