So, what is the ideal amount of RAM for a normie in 2016?

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Ram is cheap, max out your motherboard or go with at least 16GB.

64GB

A gigabyte a year keeps the normies in fear.

Implying that normies know what RAM is and its purpose. Also normies and their Win10 spybots...

Testing the system RAM consumption

16GB.

8GB is the bare minimum, 16GB is enough with a good margin.

I'm aware that Windows will scale ram consumption based on total available ram.

8 if you use Firefox. 16 if you use Chrome

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This meme should die already, I had 8GB of DDR2 RAM with my Q6600 C2Q rig when I built it.

This was back in 2006. A full 10 years later now and you should have 16GB as pretty much bog standard for everyone except grandma who just checks on her recipes and emails.

If you still think 8GB is good enough in 2016 you are either a linux tard pretending he is relevant to the discussion (hint 99% of users use windows therefore no one literally cares what the RAM use of Linux is compared to windows). On a modern windows OS, more RAM is always better, and 16GB is a good amount for normal computer use + some light gaming.

Anyone doing any sort of professional editing work is probably going to be able to take advantage of 32GB as well.

8GB is retarded, kill yourself.

You guys need to read the OP's post again and stop pretending that you're normies or Cred Forums=normies. You also need to stop pretending that normies comprise only of your age group and below.
The normies I know don't play PC games.

Windows: min. 12gb
Linux: max. 8gb

Min 4GB, Max ∞GB on both.

We're talking about normie standards, not in general.

Then 2GB minimum, and 16GB maximum.
Price of ram is so cheap that I opt for 16GB when I build PC to people since value ram is so cheap.

Ram is dirt cheap get as much as you want tbqh

Mfw my phone has that much

Upgrade your pc faggot

Different hardware.
A 400HP car wouldn't be able to pull 60 ton, but a 400HP truck would.

Same with your phones 4 or 8 core CPU, it have nothing against a quad or octa core Intel.

a regular old yeats over here

8gb was normy level in 2oo9 when i build my first pc. I can tell you 100% that 16gb is the official normy level in current year

everything in your post was true except for
>16GB as pretty much bog standard for everyone

you're full of shit son, 8gb should be the standard for everyone. 8gb is enough for people to browse the web on their consumer laptops and desktops without them being unbearingly slow.

a normal person has no use case whatsoever for 16gb, and if you are basing this on the normal Cred Forums browser's uses, that isn't what this thread is about

>first pc 2009
You do know about Rule #2 right?

3,14 gb

12 giganiggas ofc

mfw crysis 3 on max 1080p takes up less than 3gb

2GB should be enough for normies

A normie only does light web browsing and watches porn and YouTube, so id say you can get away with 3gb

>laptops
I'm talking real computers, a desktop is a real computer. A laptop is a mobile shitposting devices and is more akin to an older smartphone than a desktop.

If you are on Debian + Xfce even 2GB of RAM is enough for normie tasks like browsing, fb, libreoffice, etc

It's unbelievable how bloated proprietary OSes are

6 gb

Use at least 4GB to be on the safe side and install a GNU/Linux distro

8

> implying normies care about RAM
It's just a figure for them man,the more the better and that's it

>for a normie
well unlike N E E T S normies dont care about speed, so 4gb with a large paging file should be fine

32GiB.

Back in 2007 Cred Forums told me that 2 GiB are enough and now I constantly run out of RAM even during web browsering. Never skimp out on RAM. The highest amount of RAM you can get right now without spending lots of money is 32 GiB so you should get 32 GiB.

Stop with these retarded fucking analogies.

Are you frustrated?

8gb

Normie here
8GB is enough

8gb is probably enough. I rarely go over 4 with a retarded number of browser tabs open.

I recommend 8gb because they are bogged down by trojans, "optimizing software" that runs in the background, browser toolbars, etc. Cred Forums can get away with 4gb.

and i'm sitting here with a little over 10GB used with 9 chrome tabs and my pandora player.

Name 3 normie games that use more than 8GB minimum

His autism can't handle that much, lay off buddy.

To be fair, I run xmonad without a DE.

Same
I used the same ram for like 7 years now.

Ok, I will not bully him for having autism.

8GB is the official standard. If all you do is browse Facebook and watch YouTube, you can get away with 4GB. 16GB is recommended if you're doing heavy video rendering like if you're a YouTube content maker.

Пoчeмy нe лe клaпиcтaн?

8GB

also
>windows 10

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чoбля

Honestly if you have multiple monitors you'd be stupid to have 8GB, get at least 16GB so you can have two full screen applications open at once if that ever needs to happen.

Hell, even 10-15 chrome tabs + a game can start stressing out 8GB.

I have dual 1440p screens, with a game on one, web browser and TV/movie on the other, I'm generally using 12-15GB+ of my 32GB.

Хyли нe 10.11.6?

RAM is so cheap, debating this isn't even cost-effective.

You get this thread every now and then, just pull the trigger it's RAM

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assuming normie = average web surfer, I'd say no more than 4gb
most normies don't game (on pc, anyway) or use productivity software, so I can't imagine them needing any more than that

Пoтoмy чтo y мeня фeтиш нa кpacивыe элeмeнты гyи

I can open up 30 different porn tabs on Chrome and have a MMO running at max and it doesn't even come close to maxing my 8GB out on Windows 10

Max it ever uses is around 4GB with the rest being cached by Windows until it needs to be used.

8gb is enough

I use chrome with a lot of tabs and it never goes above 50% ram usage

Barely any games use more than 4. Where the fuck did you get that information?

Standard is 4GB.
Recommended is 8GB.
16GB is u s e l e s s and is only defended by retarded people that actually bought it.

You're actually a retard, sorry

>16GB is u s e l e s s and is only defended by retarded people that actually bought it.

On the contrary. The opposite of what you said is true.

640kb was alright back then. 8GB is alright today.

If you got money then there's no reason not to max out all the RAM slots on your motherboard. Make a RAM disk and see all that RAM go to use.

>normie
What does that mean? Gaming? Facebook? Office?

2GB can still be enough in 2016 when all you do is shitpost on Cred Forums.

Hell, 1GB is enough if you use a proper OS. Even 512MB is enough if you use Windows XP or one of those lightweight distros.

>I don't do actual work on my computer
>I don't run VMs

>16gb is useless
meh, I nabbed 2x8gb at microcenter off a sale rack. I have no regrets.

I have yet to play a game that even goes beyond 4 GB.

Find the nearest tree to hang yourself, fast!

It's people very 'unlike' you that are so shortsighted and uncreative as to think limits are 'ok.' I bet you and people like you will continue to think artificial intelligence is also an impossibility. While you think that people are working on that AI right now and getting closer to inventing it while people like you are content with primitive technology.

You're a moron.

>5GB
kek

I bet you didn't even understand the implication of that quote. Jackass.

nigga calm your shit. we're talking about normie computers, not AI developers.

Moore's law has to run its course and normies' computers will inevitably have to increase in efficiency in however way possible.

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i am running windows 10 with 8 gb of ddr2 ram right now, and can play games like dark souls 3. so i know you are completely full of shit claiming 8 gb is not enough

that being said, if i were building a pc today, I would upgrade to 16 gb for the sake of having more resources to use in general

as ram gets cheaper, bigger, and faster, normies will still use less than 4GB until their normie stuff like Twitter and YouTube begin demanding more than that.

Wrong.

Thats because dynamic RAM allocation will make it work regardless of how little RAM you have unless you simply don't have enough to run the application at all, but assuming you have 4-8GB, it will just not use RAM for system process in the background and use the paging cache file or just dump it from memory.

having more RAM lets your computer keep everything in memory instead of having to keep dumping stuff.

>Tfw fell for the 16GB meme
>8+ GB is just idle memory

I'm using up 7.2gb right now and I only have a browser and a music player open.

If I opened a game I'd be running close to 16gb.

Then I like to use a ramdisk and have a virtual machine running in the background from time to time.

16gb is the absolute minimum currently, 32gb is a must for any power user.

hence why i said i would upgrade to 16 gb

nice explanation for those who don't know though

For gaymes 16GB, regular use 8GB

256 GB ought to be enough

No they don't. 8GB is enough to have 2 browsers and PS open, I even managed to do that on 4GB. And only terribly unoptimised games need more than 8GB. 4GB would be enough for non-gaming normies.

Do you have like 50 YouTube videos playing or something? How can you possibly be using 7.2gb with just a browser and music player running?

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Any 64 bit browser eats up 3-4gb of ram if you have 10-15 tabs open.
Welcome to web 3.0.

[8, 16] GiB

Not true. Browser eats only 1GB RAM with that many tabs open.

Depends on the pages and if they were made by Pajeets.

Any Wired article eats up 400mb RAM with an adblocker and ghostery.

normies play LoL

>adblocker AND ghostery
Why 2 adblockers?
And yeah, I guess it does depend on web content and if it was made by incompetent people.
>lol
Works fine on 4GB RAM, you can run it even on 2GB as long as you have at least 500MB VRAM.

>Works fine on 4GB RAM, you can run it even on 2GB as long as you have at least 500MB VRAM.

I do trust you, I was only contesting the "most normies don't game"

>Why 2 adblockers?
Ghostery isn't an adblocker. It blocks scripts and trackers.

4 gb if you need more buy more even the cheapest ram is going to sufficient.

16GB if you're a poorfag, 32GB is standard and 64GB is nice if you can afford it.

So you can run more games simultaneously.
Like 5 EVE online clients on autopilot in the background while playing something entirely different in the foreground.

>Memory Pressure

16Gb

ITT: Cred Forums believes all normies want to do is play AAA games on max settings

ITT: phaggots using shitty bloated software
You're full of shit. Even a tablet like pic rel can handle facebook, gayming and movies.