How Much RAM Do You ACTUALLY Need? (2020)
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What's a good amount of RAM for your PC and graphics card?
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If u wanna struggle - 4gb
What you need - 8gb
What you should have - 16gb
What you want - 32+gb
Why would you want something that you don't need?
@@ProPrince Reasonable people won't. Some of us prefer to utilise what they have, rather than to have what they cannot utilise.
Accurate
I have 24gb (3x8gb) where am I? Lol
Not at all true. RAM is based on what you do, not what you want or need. A lot of programs for my engineering classes will crash with under 32GB of RAM, and only run smoothly with 64GB. As for video and photo editing, things will not run smoothly without 16GB of RAM at least, and 32+ is required for complicated projects. I could go on all day but your comment is just wrong.
When I built my PC, I ordered 16 gigs of ram off of Amazon and they accidentally sent me 32 gigs 😂 it was probably some disgruntled employee doing me a solid ✌
Stonks
oof i should need that, my pc has 4 gb of ram
@@CraftWorksVideos i have 2gb
@@recon12803 2GB? damn that sucks.
one of my friends once got 2 samsung 970 evo SSD 512 gb instead of one and he had 2 slots in his X570 motherboard so
I have 96GB of RAM, finally enough to run two tabs in Chrome.
Lmao
Jesus did you spend like 700 dollars
@@williamhomer2238 no he downloaded it
@@MrRockIsAwesome 😂😂 yup just like everyone else did
@@patorama like how tell me plz
"nobody would need more than 640kb of memory in their computer"
- my school when buying computers
Bruh
Its true though
You mean 640KB?
I think my school computer doesn't even have cpu and ram
😂😂
16 gb is enough for gaming. And if you need more you can always download more.
who are you and how are you so wise in the ways of science
Oh God! Where have you been all these years??
Please tell me where I could download high quality RAMs??
Nah for me 8gb of ram is enough for mid range graphic card
dubs thanks just downloaded 16 gigs!! I can feel the extra performance
I just pirate mine from the bay
General browsing: 4-8GB
Gaming/Editing: 16-32GB
Chrome: 2TB
@Random Anime Girl 8GB Ram is not just for general browsing, it can also be used with casual gaming.
Jaben Vilayseng Try playing COD: Warzone with 8gb trust me it’s awful
What u browsing on? Cause u ain't using Chrome
Dante The Pro I don’t think you know what that means. Come back when you can use r/whoosh in the right way
@@BruhNot silence peasent
So 16GB for Gaming, and atleast 2TB for Google Chrome...
If you want some few thousand tabs open at the same time...then yes.
😂😂😂😂
I have 32 gb of ram and while i'm playing COD MW, my ram usage typically spikes above 16 GB. I have the usual stuff open in the background...discord, steam...etc but nothing crazy. I would say 16 is a good starting point, but 32 is the way to go if you're playing modern titles at high settings. (9900k, 2080 Super, 1440p)
@@Chris_P_Bacon i would benefit from 2TB of RAM and if i got the money id probably get one.
Who the hell uses that shitty google browser ? Safari / Firefox 4 life
1995: 32 mB RAM
2020: 32 gB RAM
2050: 32 tB RAM
>32 millibytes
2090: 32pB RAM
@@tres-2b299 3000: 32eB
@@omair.raza1 after petabytes is exabytes then zettabytes then yottabytes then brontobytes... What is uB?
@@tres-2b299 sorry I meant eB, i edited my comment
One thing I know for certain is that you need 2 sticks of ram and not 1.
dual channel ftw
Yeah, and still a lot of Prebuilt pc's come with that 1 ugly green stick...
In case you want to upgrade it, I presume
So two 2gb of ram is enough⁉️⁉️⁉️
@@davidlegkodukh6969 yes
In 70 years
"Back in my day, my computer had 8 gigs of memory, and I didn't even need that much"
My grandkid: "What? I have 16 terabytes of ram on my computer, and that's not even a lot."
70? You are an optimist :) 30 years ago 16 MB was a lot and 60 years ago 16 KB would have been HUGE
I still have my first 2 flashdrives.
One is 128 MB and the other is 256 MB. lol
@Andy Young
I still have my XPS desktop with Pentium D and 1 gb of RAM. I recently bought a compatible 128 GB to back up my 120 GB HD. I'm finally retiring the desktop.
Another cool old tech I have is my Creative Zen Vision:M mp3 player which has a tiny sized 30 GB mechanical HD. I still heavily use it to this day. I just need to replace the battery at some point.
I would hope in 70 years we don't need RAM anymore. It's basically a cache component. Maybe we'll have storage devices with cache that makes RAM obsolete, or something like a RAM disk, only terabytes and petabytes, meaning RAM and "storage device" become one. You'll be telling kids they used to be two different things.
If VR gaming is going to get bigger and we transition into 4k gaming yeah definitely.
My Head: 16GB is more than enough.
My Heart: All the RAMs.
@@AstroKitty16 Actual memory used might not be the best measurement since you may have cached apps in the background so they launch quicker when you open them.
@Fabian Bebber That's a double edged sword though, take games like Overwatch, which can run on even some of the most potato rigs, but can't scale for high fps even on some of the most beastly rigs consistently (the only rigs I've seen do a consistent 300fps on OW are 2080 i9 9900k rigs with 16+ gb of ram, might be more configurations that do it, but not many more). In an ideal world, we have optimisation for both low end and high end systems so that performance and graphical fidelity both scale well with improvement in hardware.
@@DragonEdge10 cod mw is very close to killing my 16gb of ram
@Fabian Bebber sometimes for me 16gb is not enoght
@@Zain-tr2vo I'm running mw with 10 chrome tabs open, discord running, 4k video's playing on a secondary screen and blender and some other productivity programs in the background without a hiccup on my 16GB. The amount shown in task manager is mostly cached data that is there just in case because why waste unused ram?
Gamers: 16GB RAM Is Enough
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020: Hold my Flight Stick.
try blowing up a whole convoy in DCS, peaks at 25GB
@@RDxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx It's all fun and games until there's 36 players on Blue Flag (20 of them Tomcats) and someone starts rippling off CBU-97s.
@@JETZcorp my cpu loves that
I got 32gb just for flight sim 😂😂😂
I just upgraded from 8gb to 16gb.. Its now playable.
How Much RAM Do You ACTUALLY Need?
Depends on what kind of mood my wallet is in.
mine is depressed
Mine is dead
@@CraftWorksVideos mine is nonexistant.
what wallet?
We need 1 tb of ram....these days
In the near future....
Seller :"This pc is equipped with 32gb of ram"
Buyer :"but can it run Chrome?"
@Jimmy S Sacrifice ram kits to appease the Chrome gods.
Yes but only 100,000 tabs at once
Barely
@Jimmy S I use 2 tabs and a game on 4gb of ram
But can it run Cri.....Chrome?
After all, human eyes can't see more then 8gb of ram
I think you're confusing memory with screen resolution/fps
@@francisbalfour1243 thatsthejoke.jpeg
my PC had 64 GB Ram in poor country India
Dcvbkyrsscbgdsxcgf i think 48gb refreshrate is the max. at least, from my own testing, although 16-32gb of ram refreshrate is the sweet spot.
Depending on your microscope and how small it is on the wafer.
*me buying 4 sticks of ram just because I dont want to look in the manual to see where the 2 sticks should go*
Don’t you just put them in slots 1 and 3?
@@freemeraldmarbl l0l they go in 2 and 4 not 1 and 3... hopefully this was a joke 😳
@@flammerz1938 depends on the motherboard my mate... both work tho
@@jamesgains23 unlike my supermicro which will not even boot unless you put them in the right slots, gonna buy 6x8gb dimms for it lol, 2x8gb is NOT nearly enough for using this as a mc server that i also play on
True
Everyone: How much RAM do I need?
Me: Linus is really flaunting his money using that hand sanitizer on camera
Logan Tuck it’s sad that this is funny. Sad times indeed lol
Mad lad flexing
"How Much RAM Do You ACTUALLY Need?"
Chrome: YES
Just enough to hold 6900 tabs
U can't buy RAM no more
"How Much RAM Do You ACTUALLY Need?"
Windows: All of them.
Chrome and download ram jokes are overused and isn't funny
Chrome is a resource hog. Google needs to go back to the drawing board with Chrome and pare down on the amount of memory it needs to do its stuff.
Taking 4GB's of memory with only 6 tabs open is ridiculous.
"Hand Sanitiser pls"
*touches bottle with dirty hand*
*throws bottle back*
You just blew my mind. Do you need handle sanitiser bottle sanitiser?!
Use the liquid to cln the bottle
@@ronythomas3931 I used the hand sanitizer to sanitize the hand sanitizer.
Gasoline+fire=the best sanitiser around, unless you have kerosene or ethanol on hand. Oh, let's not forget the extremes: napalm or thermite, now that's something! 🤣
@@MenacingPerson Yeah, that is probably just what the person did after catching the bottle.
Me: *laughs in 1GB of ram no GPU and two cores at 2.0 gigahertz all on vista
Same 😔
@@BacTiler yah is sucks
sounds like you need linux in your lives
it's not like you'd be able to game or use windows exclusive programs either way
@@RinInABin Let them use what they want. I use windows because for *my* needs it's better. Maybe, Vista is what they need.
@@RinInABin Stop recommending your MacOs wannabe Os
“8 GB enough for gaming”
modded Minecraft: *laugh intensifies*
Yeah lol, I have 10gbs allocated to minecraft just in case i ever need it.
Modded mc gets pretty insane, I got 64gbs so I'm pretty fine
Very true. I need around 10 gb with my 59 mods..
CODs warzone uses 15gb. Crazy
Kerbal Space Program as well. Installing the Community Tech Tree (and populating it) will easily take up about 8 GB all on it's own. Especially if you get all those nice Nertea internals.
I used to use my 4gb 2014 MacBook Air for modded Minecraft...
Me: "Hey Chrome, how much RAM do you need?"
Chrome: "Yes"
andre lol lol love it
I run Firefox and Chrome at the same time, no issues whatsoever.
Used to be on 8GB of Ram, upgraded to 16. No real difference.
@@morpheas768 i have 32go ram and i would boost my build + 16go for have 48go ram total hahaha
Wait till Google starts manufacturing RAM
Then it will be like
Chrome:I need more RAM! And only comparable Google RAM! You can buy it here....
Should I make this page you starting page?
@aranphor I use firefox when making websites firefoxs developer tools are way better than Chrome's atm
"How much RAM do I need?"
Me: "...Hey Chrome how much do you need?"
Chrome: *Holds four fingers up*
Me: "Four gigs?"
Chrome: " *Four Sticks of the best* "
This one of the many reasons I use Opera instead of Chrome.
Cuddlecreeper8 I have 32gb and chrome is the best with extensions and free adblockers I have tried opera duck go Firefox and I just didn’t like them as much so for me chrome is good
@@cuddlecreeper8 I highly doubt you see less actual ram usage from a different browser... the ram usage depends mostly on the content on the website you're browsing... Chrome might show high ram usage in task manager when it's the only thing running but that's because it holds all your tabs in ram for as long as there is free ram to do it, but it doesn't keep them in ram no matter what... it releases that ram the moment another application needs it so it doesn't actually affect anything other than making chrome more responsive up until the point you run something else at which point nothing would be responsive...
@@RWoody1995 you wanna bet on that one?
Well I mean four of the best would be something like 512 gigs of RAM since you can get single ddr4 sticks with 128 gigs
I just need 2 sentences to answer the question instead of a whole video.
-16gb for 90% of the people
-32+ gb for professional work
What kind of work do you've to need 32GB RAM? (I'm trying to sound respectable btw)
@@user-bm7hh1zn7d Designing, rendering, multitasking, scientific computing, debugging, servers (than you'll at least need 128gb), virtual machine (you'll want 256gb but 128 is the minimum) etc.
I can go on all day but I hope that is enough
is 16gb good for gaming?
@@ybadriann yes
What about between16-32
"Linus is my favorite youtuber" -Steve Jobs
Albert Einstein also said that
bro u nailed it!
Me 3
My too
@Nicefisher nah bro people miss the fact that once upon a time in the 2100 B.C he came to India and had a big talk in the Parliament were Gandhi said this at the conference speech in front of him and when he went back to Pakistan he just blatantly stolen that from him in his speech at karachi, Gandhi was the real deal bro...
I actually hate having too many tabs open, I can’t stand it.
I always have atleast 80 tabs open and sometimes like 160 if you count incognito (80 on both) i just open a youtube video and start spamming recommended videos but never actually watch them. And then my dumbass is wondering why my pc is slowing down
Weak. Next you'll be telling me you like your wardrobe organised or you wash your dishes so they don't pile up. /s
BrolyTard4Life actually my room is a mess
Only betas can’t handle tabs
Everytime I am on M. Firefox, I always somehow manage to get about 99+ Tabs...that’s when it bothers me and I start from Tab 1 to get rid of em only to end up on Tab 13 and open up another 20 extra Tabs 😆 haha
“what is the Wecommended amount of dedicated wam”
🤣🤣 thanks alot for reminding me about that
Warry is that you
I sooud haev t° *da serveer*
Fouw GB
Wat is we wecowennded awount of dedicated wam
The big thing I noticed going from 8gb to 16gb is that I can do way more while gaming. I couldn't really tab out with 8gb, maybe to a web browser with a couple tabs. Moving to a Ryzen 2600 / 16gb of ram from 8gb i5 4460 was instantly noticeable. I know the CPU is a huge part of it as well, but now I can open 20 tabs, 1 AAA game, streaming, recording and whatever else.
i have 1500 gb is that to much?
@@Funebunne 💀
I have the same setup, but my video card is a RX 580 8 gb with 2 1080p monitors
@@Funebunne pain
What game
Imagine watching this in 20 years and everyone gets a flashback to the coronavirus XD
We won't exist in 20 years...
we will still be under lock down in 20 years
Brave of you to assume we will be still alive
@@purplecxcx5791 sure feels like it
Imagine they read this comment
This techquickie guy kinda remind me of linus
Weird 🤔
ikr
Yup😂
thought it was the same guy
techquickle more like testicle
*Buys as much ram to make games run smoothly*
Google chrome: hey hey
Is this a Kaguya reference?
@@ianparmley1566 ah yes... the holy hayasaka (thats her right... or is she from a differrent anime.... i have watched the episodes where she exists
Is this? What I think it is? A reference to best girl?
I see a man of culture
This should be a youtube meme
I put a 4GB ram into my laptop and tried to play fallout for, sitting here waiting a long time for the world to load, put 8GB into it and then world actually loaded and the Lag was mostly gone.
Which one?
"How Much RAM Do You ACTUALLY Need?"
Well, that depends on how many Minecraft mods you're planning to run with...
cpu is important also
NexOfficialz, 64GB with my Minecraft config.
XPlane 11 actually recommends 24GB.
Or how high the resolution of your texture pack is. My minecraft crashed because I ran out of ram when I tried running 1024x texture pack. (I have 16gigabyte)
@@schrodinger6991 did you actually allocate that ram to minecraft? When you tap f3 you can see allocated ram amount in the top right.
On top of that, ram is mostly used to increase render distance, where GPU will often handle textures
I tried running 40000 mods with an AMD A6 and 4gb of RAM, needless to say I now have a new PC
I remember not too long ago
4GB was the bare minimum for gaming
8GB was the sweet spot
16GB was nice to have but overkill
@FamlyFrendlyUsername This is why I am just going with 32. games are just going to demand more and more
I mean, Roblox do be running on 2gb though 🤷🏼♂️
@Green Beast If you were runnning out of memory with 16Gb that indicates a problem with windows. corrupt files maybe
@@parrot1137 Roblox could run on a lemon
Luke yea but that’s roblox
*As much as you can fit into your rig!* ✅🙂
Hi
warpig gaming hi
Joel Smits how?
32gb is the sweetspot
LITTERALLY what I'm doing. I got a gig job for my neighbor and he's paying decent for pocketcash since the job i was trying to get so I could work with my brother since I need and don't have a car. My laptop an hold 16 gigs of RAM dual channel ddr4 so yeah I had my repair guy order it and he's gonna upgrade it and I'm gonna watch him sine I have as much free time as I need for it.
When your own ad plays during your own video
Aiden ha I got it to lol
Who was waiting for:
"Handsanitizer! ... LTTStore.com"
I'm waiting for RAM on LTTStore.com
@@Ikxi
When you're looking for actual RAM, but they're selling RAM printed on shirts.
lttstore.com
Short answer: depends
Long answer: depends on what you're doing
Another short answer: chrome
4:29 There's going to be someone that will watch this a couple of years in the future and they won't understand why he needed a hand sanitiser.
or maybe there won't be going to be anyone to watch this video
@@silverbasscross lol
I put in 64 gb RAM recently, now I noticed I don't bother to close programs/games anymore.
What about 16gb ram ?
Me: Is 32TB ENOUGH!!!!?
Mozilla : yeah
Chrome: MORE!!
Meanwhile Internet Explorer : You guys can browse internet??
I mean we use internet explorer to download chrome or Mozilla
@@yassinastick6363 Yeah, but it can take ages.
@@ambuj.k No it doesn't.
@@Jeriun But it is still the worst browser.
Is Microsoft Edge the new Internet Explorer?
Human eye can't see more then 8 gb of RAM !!
Hands can't feel more than 27fps
Its impossible to taste anything higher then 1080p
Women can't feel more than 6
And the nose cant smell more then 500gb of disk space
The human ear also can't hear a system more than 32 bits
Linus: _"How Much RAM Do You ACTUALLY Need? (2020)"_
Me: ... Time for a different kind of petabyte project?
yes a super fast ram server
Linus be like: this is af***load of stuff and look at this bEaUty of a 256TB RAM dual Epyc 7742 enclosure with 512gb/s via NVMe Drives
I would argue the expected life span of your system is a factor too.
My laptop is over 10 years old and came with 4GB RAM. That was high end at the time, but is the bare minimum now. That's why I'm looking at getting 32GB in my next laptop. I may not need it to start with, but I want it to last ten years too.
I'm doing the same with my toshiba satellite... it's a 2014 model I belive, also came with 4 gb
@@mainpage725 wtf. What a coincidence cuz my Toshiba from 2915 also had 4 gb of ram. But it costed me $1,100 at the time
@@marvinzimmerman1878 i remember my Lenovo having 8gb of ddr3 and having a decent intel apu, being around 500$, but now i have an absolutely overkill pc with 32gb 3600 c14
@@l.no.solace7209 is a Ryzen 7 5000 series with integrated Radeon Graphics and 16 gb ram any good?
@@iliketurtles9387 For literally most people: yes. Especially considering how expensive GPUs are right now. I'm going to get myself a Ryzen 7 5700G (the G stands for integrated graphics). My work requires a lot of CPU power and I'm not going to invest on a GPU I'll barely ever use.
When it comes to RAM, I generally understand it to be:
4 GB for something like a Chromebook that's intended primarily for light web browsing, e-mail, and word processing
8 GB for a general use PC or an entry level gaming PC
16 GB for most gaming PCs beyond entry level
32 GB for a workhorse PC
Seems accurate for today's software.
I got 32 because VMs and VFIO.
Docker containers easily eat 20+GiB
I agree
Even 8gb is enough for gaming you may take a tiny hit to performance but not much, honestly 16gb is good for future games
Even relatively moderate cad or app development can eat up 32, 64 is much more safe for any kind of workhorse
once upon a time 2gb was considered average, that's why I am still using 2gb in 2020
@KeepitMelo 41 yeah man.. same here.. I have a pretty old laptop..
Me laughs in 16GB
@The Phase my phone has 6GB
@RectalDiscourse that's some good tech. I got only 1866mhz hyperX but its definitely not bad
RectalDiscourse laughs in 128GB of RAM
Damn linus is rich with his hand sanitizer.
I bet he has toilet paper too, so bourgeoisie of him
@@brannantisdale815 th-cam.com/video/5MhzgeMI6JU/w-d-xo.html
Nah he's only giga rich.
as a very bad-at-tech person, this was super helpful and informative! thank you for the great content!
I have 64GB, thinking about upgrading so I can use this so-called "Chrome" thing
Just don't open more than one tab...
@@thestig007 LOL.
I have 32GB just so I can have 3 games played at once (Steam games)
Edit: oh, and because I open chrome tabs and sort them into categorized windows, any chrome window can have around 20-30 tabs. I have 7 chrome windows open currently, 1 Edge (Chromium version) , and 2 Firefox Windows (Flash is supported in that browser)
And of course, 3 games, Discord, and Origin in the background, sometimes with Elite Dangerous Launcher and TruckersMP launcher open as well.
Yes, I know I have a "organized mess" as some of you may call it, but it's my organized method and I legit use all the windows I leave open, oh and yes, I'm the same person who want to buy Windows 10 Pro for my 2nd rig so I can control updates and not just postpone for 7 days at a time and then have all my cache cleared because an update happens -_-
Chrome does even run on my 4GB Tablet running a Pentium N4200.
I really don´t understand where this meme comes from.
On modern systems with 8 gb or more, it doesn´t even matter if chrome needs its 2 gb of ram
@@MultiWirth It's for people that don't think & complain. Same with Windows 10 which can do fine with even 1gb (just don't expect to open any other program with it!).
"how much ram do you need?"
The answer is always mostly like depends on what you have on your pockets
dust, a paper clip, my phone, 8 dollars, and oxygen, how much could I get from that.
@@dragoon8675 For you entire stock, I'll give about (necessary amount of cash for an 8 gig ram stick), so you can add more ram to your pc or laptop
@@Magnamhut How.
Just a rule, for Star Citizen Free-Flight comes about, when they say 16GB Minimum, it really does mean 16GB.
Yep. I see 52% usage of my 32GB most of the time when I'm playing SC and I know that if I only had 16GB then the system would either use the pagefile or just wouldn't allocate as much but I'd rather have the ram there available to use instead of resorting to the other lesser methods.
The most I've seen being used is 66% but that was after 8 hours of SC and it's probably down to some unoptimized memory leaks somewhere
@@Drinnan isnt ram usage based on the other componets of your pc. I highly doubt you'd go over 16 gigs of ram if you were actually using 16 gigs, I think the system just tries to use as much ram ad possible
@Pan Darius Kairos what is the point of 4k vr, it's such a small screen
Right now at least having capable CPU is more important than lot of ram, 16 GB is enough even for 1440p unless you running SC in 4k
Anonymous Boi The screen is very close to your eyes, so 4K is probably where end up with VR
I remember when I had 32mb RAM and legends said there is a guy in town who has 256mb RAM. Good old times!
@rn_s25 super nut wdym? back in the early 2000's games used 500mb of ram
So basically back then MB = GB when it came to RAM
@@gavinthecrafter yes indeed.
Modded cities skylines: *allow me to introduce myself*
I bump along using 14.5GB and still get good FPS
I know no game that is using my tot ram like cs
that game can literally take all my ram
Also anno 1800 no mods end game
Modded Minecraft: Amateur!
How much RAM do you actually need?
Me, a 3D Artist: Yes
Pink Omega 32
and a Quadro RTX 8000
So how much do you actually have in your workstation?
@@cm01 I have 40gb in mine.
Hahaha I get what you mean
16 is usually enough for gaming, until you launch Cities: Skylines 😂
For real, that's why I got 32gb... Just entering my last city gobbles up 22 of it though.
Dude the game even eats up 64 GB of RAM + 8 GB of VRAM and still only runs at 20 FPS once you modded it. A game can't be more poorly optimized
lol. Cities Skylines is actually the reason why I got pc. I thought 16 GB RAM was enough, but after I realized this game ate all of my memory. I bought more 16 GB.
and dcs
Hans Wurst you have no idea what you are Talking about, don’t you? It’s not about graphic, it has to calculate a load of information for every vehicle and every citizen. It’s a simulation after all.
Mid November 2020 - Apple M1: "4K video editing? 8GB will do you!"
Sorry - that should have read "4k editing across SIX external displays with barely any frame drops? A 16GB MacBook Air will do you!" These things just get better and better!
Me playing minesweeper: *"Ya'll investing too much on them rams"*
Rams can be good mine fodders. Also when they die, free meat
I play chess in hard 10 and bully the black king.
DUDE LITERALLY- all i play is google crome games, minecraft, and sims4 and then i do school work so idk wth i need
"How much RAM do you ACTUALLY Need"
Well, 32 gigs cause 500 mods with shaders else aren't gonna run
32 gigs is perfect for running a modded server and playing on it at the same time. That’s what I use it for
How 2 minecraft 101
Lol 2k raytracing shaders plus texture packs at 4k needs like 32 vram or some shit, be needing Titans to run minecraft not long from now
@@kugelblitzingularity304 I love that only 2 years ago 16gb was the recommended but now 32gb is the new spot for the next few weeks it feels like soon it will be 64gb yikes just for gaming and multi tasking
@@dadjokes8963 He said VRAM
"we didn't even stage that, we just had hand sanitizer on hand.
Speaking of having things on hand, my segue to my sponsor"
Linus - Master of segues
Just liking this video for that!
That was just amazing.
But but .. now the hand sanitizer bottle is contaminated :O. QUICK! MORE HAND SANITIZER FOR THE SANITIZER BOTTLE!
and it's a keyboard... you need hands to use it
No offense, but educational channels have smoother segues
I'm still waiting for the video where Linus uses a Segway as segue
Dumpster PC: has 3 megabytes of ram
My school: ILL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK
Lol
Lol
fax
My school just uses MacBooks lol
@@krayt2547 Flexer macbooks are just overpriced how would schools afford them
Wife: how many rams do you really need ?
Me : how many shoes do you really need ?
haha wife dumb buys shoes funny joke
you`re a bold one
I only buy RAM maybe once every 2 years where she's buying shoes every time there's a sale.
"How many breads have you eaten in your entire life?"
Answer to question number 1 and 2:
As much as I can
When you cough and touch hand sanitizer before and sanitize your hands after, the sanitizer itself is contaminated
Clearly the answer is to never leave your home without a full hazmat suit
Thats clickbait, too dump to ignore posting an answ..... ah crap.
You seem to forget that while this is true, you're contaminating yourself literally moments before disinfecting. You're pumping the solution into the problem.
You're an idiot
well then stay at home
everyone who subsequently touches the "contaminated" hand sanitizer is just about to save their own lives by SANITIZING THEIR HANDS..... dumbass.
Me: 16GB of RAM is enough for me...
Also me: *adds 64GB*
Ram iddiction...
That was my plan from the beginning......
you: buys 64 gb of ram
ddr5: 'just gets released'
@@florian5900 *sad ddr4 noises*
"Nobody needs more then 100MB in their computer"
My School : "That's To much"
4/8 as a casual, 16 as a gamer, 32+ as a creator.
i have 8 but i use c4d, it crashes like every 10 seconds
56 GB of RAM for doing this all at the same time
Windows 10 ... 8 casual ... Windows 7 ... 4 casual. ;)
@@tcanada17 various Linux distros: anything works
64+ for virtualization servers
"Just happened to have hand sanitizer on hand."
I see what you did there.
Nice.
Most people: 8gb is enough
Star Citizen players: I'm not buying any PC with less than 64g of RAM
Space engine players: 64? What a ripoff! I need atleast 1.5 TB!
Star Citizen ... is that the software that is still in Alpha Testing phase for the last 10 years or so?
Owen Rona It’s has been „only“ 6 years since the first alpha.
Krullerized, also X-Plane 11 and Chrome eats much RAM.
I prefer 16gb
I found my RAM cheaply enough I didn't have to worry about choosing how much I really need. I just maxed out my motherboard with 32 GB and never once regretted it. In fact I had a DeusEx game that was performing horribly when I had just 8 GB originally. It really was recommended to have 16 for that. It was very choppy and loading between levels took forever. Now with double the minimum recommended RAM it is a thing of the past! All my other requirements for the game were met except I didn't have enough RAM before that upgrade.
More ram - less memory speed.
the sweet spot is 8 - 16 unless you want 32 for some reason.
Yep, I know only one game that recommens 32gb , fly simulator.
I think 16gb will be fine for the next generation of games and work.
I know but I have started doing video editing and 8gb is not enough. I might get 32gb in a new system is building this year
*laughs in 64 GB*
@@ignatiushong8298 do u like do recordings and stuff...?
U don't need more than 12 or 16 gb if your only gaming but if u want to open chrome tabs u have to invest 114 gb more
chrome: 8gb
CHROME: 32GB
*CHROOOOME* : 1TB RAM
Internet explorer: -
:(
Windows has run into a problem and needs to restart.
Nozzila DragonCox - 128 kb is enough
underrated
:)
Windows has run into a problem and needs to restart.
me: **laughs in 2gb of ram and no gpu**
this is my computer:((((
@@yourselfgamingyt4215 stfu that's legit my computer
Biggest yikes
Bruhs in 2.5gb 800mhz ram with ddr2 stuff
@@sajidkamal5054 email Barbara. Int Airport
I love how calm he sounds here
Oh, nobody is making this easier?
2:00 You're welcome..
Linus: "How many RAM do you need?"
Me: "Cries with 2 GB of RAM
Edit: I have 8 gigs now :)
My laptop has 4gb ram and 1.6 Ghz Pentium quad-core processor N370.
Btw I use manjaro so not much problems. I use it for basic browsing, watching movies etc.
This is because I accidentally broke my 2gb 2.1Ghz Pentium dual core processor laptop 2 years ago.😢
Lol poor
Smartphones today have more than 4gb of ram lmao
i had 512mb ram. i did upgrade to 2gb but i feel ya
@@tapp3r109 mine has 12 gigs
Cities Skylines with all those mods:
You're telling me you want frames and you only have 64GB of ram?
Lmao, true
of all games you mention the one I had in mind! I have 32GB RAM and it's the one who used up to 23GB up until now.
@RectalDiscourse Not sure, the computer I have currently probably can't play it. The Steam page recommends six gigs and apparently integrated Intel GPUs are a no go.
@RectalDiscourse Yes it is... 32 is absolutely needed... If u are using mods...
That one mod pack that requires 60gb of ram: Finally a worthy aponent, our battle shall be legendary
"How much ram u actually need ?"
Me : 2gb ram and I m still standing
Me: who is using 2GB ram on winXp 32bit and also playing chess on it
Also me:I am SPECIAL
Ur freaking awesome
You don't need 2 GB for xp, for xp you only need 512 megabytes
@@sosopwsi829Jjw9 it depends on the version you are using. On the base version from 2001 512MB or even 256MB is enought. But on the latest service pack with all updates and stuff like Java or Flash installed that is not enought at all. If you want to do anything with a machine like that you should have at least 1GB.
I have windows 10 pro with 2gb of ram. Recently I had to try and free up space so ROBLOX! would run. I'm looking to upgrade to 8gb but I don't know how much difference it will make.
@@parrot1137 it will make a *HUGE* difference.
Me: is 1 a lot?
Modded Minecraft: Depends, 1TB of Storage yes, 1TB of ram no
modded minecraft ran just fine on 8 gb of ram, 32 gigs is too much (that's what I have rn)
I play minecraft all minim 2gb ram 60 fps lol
Antonio c: Hello i want to play modded minecraft so i am gonna buy a gaming pc is 16 gb ram and 1 tb storrage enough?
@@clipz7211 no you need 47pb of ramto run atleast 4 mods
@@clipz7211 yes but it also depend on the processor to match the 16 gb ram, I'd recommend ryzen 5 3600
'4 gigs of vram is good for 1080p gaming'
Doom eternal: allow me to introduce myself
Yup. Doom Eternal wants resources.. and delivers well with those resources.
Its not even that bad I think it consumes 6 gigs at max settings. Compare that to a game like black ops 3 which was release 5 years ago and can use up to 12 gigs of vram at max settings
Yeah I'd personally recommend 6GB for 1080p gaming in 2020, especially if you're looking to buy new hardware. Right now there are already several games which really struggle on 4GB at high settings on 1080p, and that's only going to get worse with new releases (especially when the new console generation comes out and cross-platform games will be able to require more memory).
Wasn't 4 GB vram the requirement for Wolfenstein (2014) ultra settings?
wierd, COD warzone with FHD Max settings eat almost 11GB VRAM, on gtx 1080ti
so i think new graphic card should get at least ~50% more than actualy it's (for high end)
It depends on the operating system and what you use it for. In the old days I created a ram drive and loaded a particular app totally into ram and ran it from there. The performance increase was insane. But that was DOS, yes, DOS. I used that example to show that it depends on how the computer uses ram. If there is a ton of ram available then more ram can be used by any particular app. If the app always does it the same way no matter the free available ram, then that's another thing and likely the most common. So do most apps actually benefit from tons of ram? I don't really know. But I am saying that there is way more than one way to skin a ram cat. Is the trend towards flexible ram usage or towards faster, common development cycles. I imagine that there are code templates available to make them most of whatever the ram scenario is. Wouldn't that be the best? Then tons of ram would be taken the most advantage of.
Haven't watched it yet but probably 8 if you are not gaming, 16 if you are and 32 and up if you are video editing
Spoilers.
You are wise in the ways of computers.
Nah 8 will do fine for gaming
I managed to edit a video with 1GB of ram.
@@thedamntrain5481 not for minecraft
Anyone: How much ram do you need?
Linus: Yes
Did you want to hear a single wrong answer?
Linus:
LET‘S GO WITH 2 TB
Exactly
Me: has 32GB of ram for all my chrome tabs
How are you running chrome with such low spec?
Or Firefox tabs
I don't even want to know what are in those tabs.
Yep I did the same, and surprisingly if you leave session open after a week or two there will be so much memory leak that 32 won't be enough and it will crash. It's laughable
I got 32GB of RAM just so I can have 4 sticks instead of 2 and yes, they are RGB even though I just keep them on white.
I've been watching a lot of videos about RAM and I am not computer smart. This video really cleared up a lot for me. Thank you.
"Hand sanitizer!"
**Touches hand sanitizer bottle with unsanitized cough hand, then tosses it back**
Sucks to be whoever that bottle belonged to.
Dude I was just thinking the exact same thing....
I was searching for that comment :D
They just then sanitise their hand
He is out of sanitizer bottle sanitizer? 🥺
What's wrong with that. The only time you need hand sanitiser is when your hands are dirty!
For the next gen no doubt, 8 gb minimum req - 16 gb recommended - 32 gb high end for some top tier AAA games but still overkill for many games
True. Hence 2x8Gb is the sweet spot to go for normal use. The price isn't too bad and you get 2 free slots for future upgrade if needed.
Is Ryzen 7 5000 series with integrated Radeon Graphics and 16 gb ram decent?
q: how much ram do you need?
a: finding a motherboard that supports it is not easy
What do I need for 32 Gigs?
Master Yoda money
@@nielse2548 >:) hehehe...soon
@@dugoo3405 what you selling ketamine
That’s the most smoothest sponsorship advertisement transition I’ve ever seen.
Linus: “How much RAM do you need?”
Film composers: “...yes”
I was thinking this exactly. I have 12GB and my DAWs CHUG if I have too many VSTs in use. Tho I'm on laptop so that's another story.
@@Redhollow 256 is ok. i'm struggle with 16 AND thinking get more 16gb
Once I realized my daily use was edging over 10gb on average I knew I wanted to go to 32gb of ram, it wasn't that expensive and I think it was worth knowing it'll always be enough for anything in the next few years.
When you ask your dad for ram and he downloads it.
He gets it right the second time but the ram isn't compatible and bottlenecks the motherboard.
Has 16GB and thinks it’s too much
Modded Minecraft - doesn’t even run
I think you guys should be looking at GPU’s, not ram.
What the *! I play big modpacks like ftb invinizy and revelations with 8gb on windows. It's okay even though the FPS are low and drop. But with my new 16gb of ram it runs very smooth and the modpack needs in think less than 10 mins.
So either you do something wrong or
You made a joke that's supposed to be funny but I can't get...
Anton x didn’t say it was ddr4
hi need help between 3200cl16 plantium dominator vs vengence pro 3600 cl18. ryzen 3600 x same price
Minecraft is a power hog, in every right.
I have 64GB of low latency DD4 ram, a RTX 2080 Ti, and a Ryzen 3900, and still I have to make major trade offs in the settings to get frame rates I find acceptable.
FTB is even worse. Throw in some machines into your world and hit those areas and watch as the FPS nosedives.
Much of it comes from the fact that modded Minecraft relies on Java, which is not nearly as optimized.
"we would recommend 16GB"
me: watching on 2GB RAM
8gb is the absolute minimum. I always recommend 16gb and up! Please dont listen to people saying 4/8 gb is good. They still live in 2012.
It really depends on what games you play or how "spoiled" you are by higher end PCs. The most popular games really aren't very demanding at all. If you play games like League of Legends, Dota, WoW, Fortnite, Overwatch, etc. then 8gb really is perfect. 4gb is passable, but that's pushing it. (These have some of the highest player base of any game currently, so it's a good metric to use to judge the general population of gamers imo.) The difference between like 4gb to 16gb for games like these and even general web browsing is quite literally seconds of load time. The average user doesn't even notice it. You wouldn't really notice the difference unless you've just been spoiled by high end PCs.
not true, 4 gigs is workable with most games, the reason you "need" 8 gigs with most games is they are bad at cleaning up unused memory, but if that becomes an issue you can still use memory cleaning software, 8gb is the comfortable standard, not an "absolute minimum" by any means
I would still suggest 8gigs or more, just clearing up the misinformation
8GB is the new 4GB, and 16GB is the new 8. 8GB is the bare minimum, anything below should not be bought, 16 is good for most standard gaming/productivity use cases and anything above is for specific reasons like heavy productivity programs like video editing.
16GB is the bare minimum. People do have and want other programs running in the background besides the game they're playing.
Doskii it really depends. if it’s grandma who needs to check email, watch youtube, and do word documents, 8 is plenty
8GB is the minimum in todays standard. 4GB is not enough for Windows 10, it lags a lot.
Tom Louwell unless you have a lot of shit
@@felixmarquez3127 like windows 10 bloatwares
agreed, my laptop has 4gb that is non-removable and I have a DDR4 stick I added for $80 to give me 20 GB so I allocated 4GB to the iGPU to give me 16gb for the system. It was soo slow without that extra stick, and gave me much better performance with the iGPU
For basic stuff 4 GB and to a degree even 2 GB is quite sufficient actually. Having an HDD in these kinds of systems is what hurts performance most. (TL: Basic means office work and some web browsing) I wouldn't recommend buying less than 8GB these days though.
Not really. For your applications, for sure you need more, but basic use (media consumption/web browsing) 4 is plenty
Me: Should I get more RAM?
*Linus 4 hours later* :
Linus_dogs - Everything is connected
"32GB is a lot of RAM" *eyes 32GB sticks just bought*
64GB is plenty for me my mobo can handle 128GB, I use my PC for music production and occasionally gaming, mostly work related software, DAWS require some good amount of RAM. I think 23GB and 64GB will be the norm in the next 10 years.
Hey just out of curiosity, what programmes you using for music production?
I'm looking at either getting the Macbook Pro 16 inch, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB memory - OR - the new Macbook Pro with M1 chip, 16GB RAM and 1TB memory.
For that extra 16GB RAM...your are talking £2000 extra cash lol (that's Apple for you though)
I'm guessing FL Studio with yout background pic 😅👍 respect for Deadmau5 broo!
@@TheBritishPeople shh it's a secret 🤣 yeah basically and some Ableton 😅
@@TheBritishPeople rn I'm using a few daws FL studio and Ableton damn that's a lot of coin! Yeah I'm not sure about apple I've always been a PC guy.
"How much ram do you need"
Minecraft with modpack: YES
THIS.
Really anything with modpack. Skyrim, Cities Skylines, GTA V, Kerbal Space Program, mods as a general rule take up much more ram than they should because they just aren't optimized well compared to the game itself.
Hahaha minecraft funnie wholesome 100 pewidepie Kenny chungus moment
Ohh definitely
I play Minecraft moddpacks on a macbook air 2014. U SHALL NOT CAMPLAIN!!!
- The world is coming to an end...
Linus: "How Much RAM Do You ACTUALLY Need?"
@ and increase in price after all this pandemic. Thats why its gonna suck building a decent pc due to companies wanting their items to be bought
@ i'm actually finding a cheaper RTX 2060 right now, it's fucking hard buying online cuz they're not risking taking cash on delivery and i don't have a credit card. Im looking at an underground seller right now cuz i can't save money after all of this cuz it might be use for an emergency.
linus: "16 gb is enough"
me: laughs in shaders and render distance
Gabriel Carro: laughs in shaders and render distance
shaders and render distance: * laughs in 500mb ram usuage *
Great video Linus, I been using 16GB RAM. Or at least 8GB of RAM, I have 3 Intel Core i7 3840QM HP laptops, one has 8GB of RAM. The other two have 16GB of RAM. I don't go no lower then 8GB, I do a lot multi-tasking on my laptops.