That's not enough headway for memory intensive programs to run while having Chrome running as well. If I had my virtual memory disabled (if only running SSDs) then my system would be using 6615MB or 6.46GB of system memory out of a maximum of 8192MB or 8GB. Chrome alone is eating up 1024MB of physical memory and 748MB of virtual memory (1772MB or 1.73GB combined). With only 3 Chrome tabs open (and Windows Resource), my computer is using 3712MB of memory plus 2903MB of virtual memory. However, Google Chrome uses up a ton (6 instances). This is what I do in my system as it's older and can only support 8GB of memory.Įxample: My computer is currently running a few programs in the background that is using about 2.5GB of memory (the large memory use programs are: AVGCSRVA.exe, Javaw.exe, explorer.exe, chrome.exe). If you are strictly running HDDs or a combination of SSDs and HDDs I would say you can "get away" with only 8GB and have the virtual memory pointed to the HDD to avoid burning up the NAND in the SSD. In this case I would go with 16GB of memory. If you plan to strictly run SSDs then you will want more memory and disable the system cache (virtual memory) to avoid burning up the NAND in the SSD with unnecessary write cycles. A lot depends on how you have your system setup.
The simple answer is: you can't go wrong with "too much" memory, but you certainly can have "too little." If you can afford 16GB of memory, I would highly recommend you go for it.
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