![]() ![]() ![]() Even if you’re trying to be as cheap as possible, don’t skimp out on the RAM. A budget APU might struggle to cross the finish line with modern games in 5 years, but a PC running on budget RAM today will outright fail in the same contest. The upgrade from DDR3 to DDR4 is more beneficial for removing the needless stress and worry that comes with gaming on older hardware. The difference between DDR3 and DDR4 RAM for the average gamer isn’t just found in performance. Your PC will be future-proofed, your games will have all the memory they could want for generations to come, and you can open up multiple applications on your computer while gaming without sacrificing performance. Or, if you’re using an accelerated processing unit (APU), which draws virtual memory from your system’s RAM, you’ll get a nice increase in performance until upgrading to a dedicated CPU/GPU rig. Ergo the sweet spot is really 8gb of RAM for any OS, more than 16gb is useless. Most users of either OS will never notice a difference between 8 and 16 gbs of RAM and no one except under unusual or test conditions can ever fill up even 16gbs of RAM. This will ensure that the only thing bottlenecking your PC’s performance in any game is your CPU or GPU. The differences between RAM usage between OSX and Windows hold constant in my experience. So what does all of this mean? It means you should grab two 8GB sticks of DDR4 RAM, look up how to take advantage of dual-channel support on your respective DDR4-enabled motherboard, slot those bad boys in your PC, and forget about them for the next decade. ![]()
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