32GB!
Had to have more than my last PC (24)
16GB on the motherboard, 4GB on the graphics card.
Seems enough.
My home laptop has 8GB, and (iirc) that's the most any computer in my house has.
This week, however, I haven't used my home laptop at all, so my “main” PC is probably my work laptop, which has has 16GB to cope with all those pesky VMs I insist on running (seriously, you'd think that working for the IT department would make it easier to get a non-standard laptop, but it was such a struggle to get something that suited my needs…).
Desktop
16GB DDR2 run at 667Mhz due stability problems.
2GB on graphics card
Laptop
4GB
Desktop
16GB DDR4
GPU 4GB GDDR5
8GB desktop - 1GB on graphics card, i'm poor :(
16 GB But my next will be 32 GB
As i built my PC over two years ago, i thought 8 would be enough. But today i realised, 16 GB was the better option.
Both my main pc's have 32GB DDR4 Dominator Platinum 3000Mhz
Machine 1: 16GB ECC DDR3 (2x8GB) - gives me space to host a VM and enough ZFS performance for now, and I could slot in another 16GB if/when I need it.
Machine 2: 8GB DDR2 (2x4GB) run at a little under 800MHz due to stability issues (even worse with 4 sticks) - just about OK for gaming & general use, but I'm looking to upgrade the whole system to 16 or 32GB ECC DDR4.
Machine 3: 4GB DDR2 (667MHz) (2x2GB maxed out) - an old laptop on which I never have enough memory, needs at least 16GB :(
Machine 4: 2GB DDR2 (2x 1GB maxed out) - an old laptop that I plan to use as a basic living room media centre. Hoping that these days 2GB is still enough…
My desktop only has 8gb of 1600MHz DDR3 RAM from G.Skill, still running great and I havent noticed any issues, although I will probably make the jump to 16gb of DDR4 memory for my next system build
32Gb in my main desktop (Vm work)
8Gb on my Surface Pro 4
4Gb on my Dell 8"
16Gb in TV based NUC (Fast ram can benefit here)
I'm aware that the speeds afford me hardly anything at all so I ignore the marketing.
8gb on my desktop since 2011 and have been very happy with it since. I'm still surprise that current ram prices are similar to the ones in 2011.
My next computer will have 16gb.
12Gb, more than enough for me.
16GB but need to double up due to more dev work on VM's
16GB, it's usually enough to not eat into swap.
Main desktop 16GB. 2009 vintage.
Gaming/lab/frackingabout workstation 128GB. Will be 256GB whenever modules crop up on either eBay or Amazon Warehouse Deals (big shout out to people who buy registered ECC DDR3 kits by accident; respec')
Desktop
8GB on Motherboard.
2GB on graphics card.
Laptop
4GB on Motherboard.
Shared with Intel graphics card.
Main PC: Kingston 16GB (4x 4GB) HyperX Beast DDR3 1600MHz. Don't really need it for gaming but handy to have when I occasionally mess about with VirtualBox & VMware VMs.
16GB, more than enough and means I can run without swapfile, without issue, which is good for my SSDs.
16gb 4*4 3000mhz.
I'm in serious need of more slots though!
32 GB… It's dual seated so extra additional headroom comes handy.
32GB Corsair CMK32GX4M4A2800C16; 8GB graphics card.
16GB - it's enough for what i use, hell, 8GB would probably still be enough really.
8GB on mobo, 2GB on video card. Enough for the time being (at 1080).
Maxed out at 16Gb for board and 2Gb video card
16GB Kit (2x8GB), DDR4 , 2400MHz.
Quantity/speed of system RAM is more than sufficient for my uses.
Desktop 16GB (GSkill 2x8GB DDR4 3000)
Graphics 2GB (GTX 770)
System RAM: 16GB DDR3 Corsair Vengeance Pro 2133.
Video RAM: 8GB GDDR5 (GTX 1070)
32Gb DDR3 1866 on my ROG laptop and 4 gb on video, 16 GB ddr3 1600 on my NAS, 16gb ddr3 on my work desktop.
8GB DDR3 in my desktop. Have been considering doubling it to 16GB or even 32GB (I like to run a few VMs). But then I'm also considering going with a whole new build, which would mean DDR4.
16gb 2x8gb module, just in case i need to expand with more :)
8GB (2x4GB DDR3 1866MHz), which I've had for the past few years. I'm currently looking into doubling it to 16GB.
8Gb XMS stuff which are 4x2Gb, I am thinking on getting another 8 and taking 4 out taking my up to twelve in the near future or maybe taking the XMS stuff out completely and getting 4x4Gb. My board does have an XMS profile for the ram so maybe go for that again.
RAM is the main area where i tend to overspec if possible. Whilst extra RAM often doesn't help a great deal, the file caching is nice. But having too little RAM is horrible and can cripple a system (same goes for VRAM on graphics cards)
-16GB in main PC (+8GB VRAM). 8GB would probably suffice for now if i was only gaming, but i do use the extra fairly often with VMs.
-8GB in server PC (for VM's), but i'd have more in there if i could. (motherboard maxed)
-8GB in laptop, this one admittedly is a bit comically overspecced as it's just a 1.6Ghz APU and at most runs a web-browser or older 2D games. No noticeable performance change running with 4GB, but i had a spare 4GB laying about so why not…
16GB (2*8) G.Skill TridentX DDR3-2400 CL10
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 936MHz
16GB. I currently use 4 sticks, bad am considering that 2 sticks might be more reliable and potentially lower the chance of fault. I've had quite a lot of RAM problems… 16GB seemed like a lot a few years back, but am pretty glad I did.
16GB for the past few years and it's only recently I've seen more than 8GB used in some games/applications.
8Gb desktop 2GB Gfx
4GB laptop
4GB phone
Currently 2x8GB DDR3 with the plan to upgrade to 32GB if the prices ever come down again….my rams gone up £25 in the last 6 months, they were only £50 before that….
GPU is currently 2.5GB but going up to 6GB when new 1060 arrives
Got a second pc with 4GB RAM and a 2in1 with 2GB RAM too
Family laptop: 16GB
Personal laptop: 8GB
HTPC: 4GB
16 gig, pass what speed it is but iv always gone for the slower speed because I don't see any difference
64GB kingston Savage 2666Mhz DDR4
Picked up 32GB DDR3 1600 for £80 recently. Some of it is set asside as a ramdrive for temporary files such as media buffering with WMC and visual studio builds. Other PCs are 8 or 16GB. I don't need 32GB but I can make use of it to reduce wear and tear on the SSDs.
16GB DDR4 2666 running at XMP settings. Paired with an i3 6100 following the reports that higher speed memory could really lift the little brother of the Skylake CPU family. Works pretty well so far with a GTX 960 packing 4GB.
Currently 12 gig and not really seem to use it all ;)
8 with a view to upgrading soon
I have 16Gb (4x Gb sticks) of Samsung Green DDR3 overclocked to 2133mhz with timings of 9-10-10-21-1T at 1.5v. I am very happy with the speed I have gotten out of it and 16Gb is more than enough for a gaming pc.
16GiB of DDR3. Intending to use 2x8GiB of DDR4 for my next build, with the option of later expanding up to 32GiB if somehow required. (I don't imagine this will be needed for many years though.)
8GiB has become the decent baseline level for gaming, with 16GiB becoming optimal for most non-professional users.
I have 72 gigs of RAM in this old Dell T5500 workstation that I use as my main machine at the moment. It was my ESXi lab until the PSU went in my I5 system which has 8gigs. I have put the GTX 670 into this Dual Xeon based Dell workstation and it actually plays games pretty well considering it was made in 2011 IIRC!
Currently running 16gb but will go 32 or maybe 64 early next year when zen arrives.
I will add I do run a lot of video editing and frequently bounce off the 16 I have,
16GB with 2GB in GPU. Not found any significant diff when it used to run with 32GB, so I saved some dosh.
32GB - I do a lot of RAM intensive work (compression, analysis etc.) so it's justified - could always use more
32gb RAM… i whish i had 64
16GB @ 1866Mhz
8GB on the GPU (GTX 1070)
16GB on MB, my 2GB just passed away with my dead vga card :(
24GB on desktop - largely demanded by a “Work PC” VM in VMWare Workstation. 4GB 970 card.
16GB on all other of the 6 PCs in the house.
i have 96GB in my main PC. But then it is a dual CPU workstation
Only 16 GB ECC memory. Could probably upgrade to 32 GB, since only two slots are occupied, but I'll probably only do that when I upgrade to a new CPU/motherboard/RAM combo anyway.
16GB
If I were to upgrade to a Skylake system in the near future, I'd opt for 64GB
8GB DDR3, which is perfectly fine for my usage.
16GB (4x4) DDR3 Beast series Kingston HyperX 1600 MHZ CL9
24GB 6x 4gb ddr3 1600 cl8
seeing as I'm running a xeon 5650 hexcore at 4ghz there's no reason to upgrade in the near future so I'm happy enough
8gb on the mb and 8gb on my 480. Works ok for my gaming until I upgrade to Zen.
I have a lowly 6GB :( I wish I had bought some RAM when the prices were still ok, before the pound crashed against the dollar. :/
I am using 128GB (Corsair Platinum DDR4)
Sadly only 8GB. Never had the need for more just yet. Maybe on my next Mobo / CPU combo
8GB- enough given the limitations of my A10 processor for gaming. That was the best ‘bang for buck’ option when I built this rig and couldn't afford a discrete GPU of any worth. Now have an EVGA 960 GTX 4GB GPU, so when funds allow will rebuild the rig with a better CPU/mobo, and faster RAM (although not necessarily more than 8GB).
32gb DDR4 2400 X99 build
Complete overkill for gaming rig with some odd photoshop tinkering, But always been in the mindset where I never have to worry about not enough.
Last X79 build had 32gb DDR3 1866, Probably just stick with 32gb in every new build from now on.
32GB, which might seem unnecessary except I do a lot of multichannel work with high-sample-rate 24-bit audio, and also large scale multi-layered Photoshop work. I might not really need 32GB, but 16GB wasn't going to be a wise choice.
For speed, I wasn't going to pay over the odds because I haven't seen a review for any DDR4 RAM that makes a case for high speed RAM. I was able to get a bargain on Corsair Vengeance 2666MHz for the same money as the cheapest DDR4 I could find, so I took it, but I know that I would have exactly the same experience with RAM of a speed rank above or below.
Only using a NUC at the moment and it has 32GB.
I used to use a ramdrive program a lot (particularly before we got SSD's), so I always had a lot of RAM.
When I had 16GB in the NUC, it used always be getting close to maxing out when I was doing research. Sometimes even did when I would have 2 or more bowser windows open (sometimes up to 10 or more) with lots of tabs open in all of them (each browser a specific topic and sometimes over 50 tabs open on each topic) plus several other programs going all at once. I tend to keep referring back and forward between pages, et cetera, so it is easier to have evrything open and easy to access. Even right now I have used 12.4GB of my 32GB RAM and I am not doing much.
Too much, Corsair CMK32GX4M4A2800C16 Vengeance LPX 32 GB. I don't need that much, much the same for the rest of my PC, it's OTT. I don't do gaming, graphics or other such things, I just like building PC's. I think it's time to dismantle my rig , sell off the components and start all over again with something a little more realistic. May have to post a big “For Sale” sign for the following:-Intel Core i7 6700K; Noctua NH-U14S CPU Cooler; AsRock Z170 Extreme7+; Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1 Gaming; 2 x Samsung 950 PRO NVMe M.2 512 GB; BeQuiet 850 W Dark Pro 11 PSU; ASUS ROG Swift PG279Q; Creative Soundblaster ZxR; Thermaltake Core V71 and of course the Corsair CMK32GX4M4A2800C16 Vengeance LPX 32 GB. I'll keep the Logitech 2.1 Speaker System Z623 and a few other bits and pieces. All I ever do is stream music and films, emails and the like together with my university studies ( languages). No I'm not a young student with more money than sense, I'm an old man, mature student working full time, shift work, with time on his hands. Any suggestions for a new system, more suited to my needs, budget circa £1500. I'd be interested to hear them.
I got bitten in the butt by the “upgrade later” mentality twice (with DDR and DDR2).
“I'll just get 2x1GB DDR2-800 for now.. If I ever need more I can still stick 2 more sticks in later”
“crap.. the same RAM now costs double or thrice of what I initially paid for it.. no upgrade for me then :(”
Similar story over a decade back with DDR1 in my Pentium 4 Northwood (which still exists and works).
When I built my 1155 system I basically said “f.. duck it” and bought 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3-1600 Crucial Ballistix Sport VLP.
In other words: maxed out the RAM so I don't have to worry about upgrades.
8GB DDR2. Will be going for 16GB DDR4 soon though.
32GB, and I'm quite often using over 16GB according to take manager. Only recently upgraded from a 2500k to a R5 3600 and 32GB was so affordable it was an easy choice.
16 gb in my rig now, last one had 32gb. i think 16 is the sweet spot unless you do a lot of editing or its a workstation and your doing cad or 3d work then pile it in! with a massive cored processor.
Corsair VENGEANCE LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 DRAM 3600MHz C18 AMD Ryzen Memory Kit CMK32GX4M2Z3600C18
12GB and that's enough for most of daily tasks