How Much RAM Should You Get in 2024?

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00:00 Memory (RAM) Explained
01:49 What is "Swapping"?
05:25 How Much Memory Do You Need?
05:50 Why Choose 8GB
06:06 Why Choose 16GB
06:20 Why Choose 32GB
06:55 Why Choose 64GB or More
07:37 How to Check Your Memory Use
08:42 Why NOT To Upgrade Your Memory
09:49 Conclusion

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[JustJoshTech]

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[peterg]

Just met you today Josh. WOW! This was enlightening with its concise/precise information, eloquently put. "'On'ya mate!" And yeah, I'm sure it works for your mum, but you'd make most Aussies proud. Well done Josh. Cheers from Sydney.

[jay-]

when you flexed your degrees all the comment section warriors packed up their bags and left lmao

[imador]

The YouTuber who really values our time...
Sometimes i feel sorry for all people who don't know you, you really deserve more followers

[LouisDuran]

One thing Josh didn't mention is that some iGPUs can steal away system RAM for use by the iGPU. This is usually dynamic and may rarely be taken away when needed for something other than the GPU. However it's usually a BIOs setting And can just be a static amount that is always reserved for the iGPU whether needed or not

[Brad-cbdt]

I like explain RAM like it’s physical desk/table space. More ram = larger desk/table.

You can always working on more things than the desk/table has space for, but completing multiple activities *can* take more time on a smaller desk/table as you may have to shuffle things on and off as needed (eating dinner before playing a board game Vs eating dinner while playing a board game).

Depends on the tasks of course, but playing a board game can take up a lot of space.

[saito]

This is the most helpful guide I've ever seen on this platform, Thanks a lot!

[ahmedshams]

So thoroughly and simply explained.

Loved it.

[FeTiProductions]

On the SSD memory swapping point for those curious on the impact, I currently have a Windows 11 laptop with 8GB RAM that I bought just under 2 years ago. Due to the insufficiency of the RAM for my needs I have a 12GB page file to remove hiccups and system halts I'd get otherwise. The swapping does make an appreciable blow on drive health but not necessarily a concerning one in my opinion unless you want to keep your hardware for beyond 10 years.

I'm currently at 82% lifespan left, 26 TBW / 150 TBW for 23 months of use, and this laptop is mostly office centric for the most part in terms of workload, does homework, multiple chrome tabs, some gaming here and there, 1080p video edits on rare occasions, nothing special.

Comparing that to my desktop that has sufficient 16GB of RAM and no page file at all, I have 95% lifespan for over 4 years of usage on that one. Hope that helps with any purchasing decisions

[cenewton]

My Mac Pro from 2010 has had 128GB since I bought it on eBay in 2017. Twin Xeon X5690's, 24 threads (3.5GHz), nVidia RTX 2080, modern I/O, NVME SSD and internal RAID5, so she still rips pretty well. I plan on keeping her for a while longer too. Running Garuda Linux as primary OS. I haven't considered a new PC since, won't for a while either.

[mediocreape]

i actually learned something new today, i didn't know you could look at the paging graph on windows. thanks for the tip. subbed

[jjwagnell]

As always, a thorough and detailed explanation of RAM. My conclusions are not always the same as yours due to personal preference but I always appreciate you going into detail and sharing exactly why you made the conclusion you have come to. Thank you!

[zkdd]

I'd find a 32 GB to be future proof, however manufactures providing soldiered RAM laptops are trying hard to prevent that.

[rubevaughn]

As someone who has been doing desktop support for close to 30 years I can say that as of 2023 whether PC or Mac it is best for everyone to go with 16g of RAM. Even casual users have a habit of creating very complex situations for their machines and having that added memory really helps in not seeing sluggish behavior. Especially because both the MacOS and Windows are eating up more system memory than ever with all the work they are constantly doing in the background. A very basic scenario I see at work is a user with Outlook running, a web browser running, and Word running will be pushing the limits of what 8g of RAM can manage easily. Now a virus scan kicks in, or an update starts to install in the background and suddenly that 8 g feels very sluggish. Or you ask one of those three apps you have open to suddenly do something more demanding and again you're stressing the level of memory. For a long time 4g was fine, then 8g, now it is 16g.

[m.r.a.]

I had watched several videos but none help like this...tnx indeed🌷

[nickchristopoulos]

good presentation Josh, and very carefully delivered. Many thanks for your efforts. Regards N.C.

[stevereason]

This video was very informative, THANK YOU!!

[salih-khan]

Great video really went into detail about the use cases and helped me a lot!

[misssheltered]

Good video. Im considering upgradeing my ram in my laptop for music production since it workss but struggles when working on projects with lots of plugins. I'll 1st cheek the puformance monter thingy.

[tymepilot]

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