I made the upgrade from 16 to 32 year ago, and now i am planning to go to 64GB next month. Upgrades are always welcomed.
Your computer will not die if you run out of ram, however performance will be reduced significantly as it starts using the system drive to store data that would otherwise live in RAM.
Upgrading your RAM can help address this issue, but a far cheaper solution is to have fewer applications eating memory. Many people have pointless apps running at every startup, especially if their PC is from an OEM that pre-installs stuff, Windows uses as little as 3gb in a clean install, meaning in theory 16gb would be enough for most people, however Iâve noticed on my friendâs Lenovo laptop that windows uses 6gb or more, because of random apps that it included.
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Yeah, when i bought my new Win 11 PC i was already running 7GB with my browser and discord open. The PC was fine except low on RAM with only 16 (which funny enough my old PC also already had). In the first week i bought another 16 and i noticed a big difference ingame and the overall performance of the pc. Even when it never reaches 16.
Been a month since I personally last rebooted⌠I use hibernate a lot, saves the whole state to disk, turns off, can be unplugged, moved, etc, comes back exactly as I left it. Better than turning off at night because I donât lose track of what Iâm doing in several different programs. When something asks me to reboot it ends up being a big deal because I have to make a note of what was going on.
I guess it depends on how you use your PC and if you multitask many things over multiple days 
Yup! âCrapwareâ is the Google search term if you want to know more. PCs, especially mass-market âconsumerâ PCs, tend to come with an insane bunch of junk, unnecessary applications, each of which nibbles away at your CPU and RAM, often badly coded, sometimes âphoning homeâ to their maker with info about you.
The first thing I do with a new PC, or any friends who get a PC, is seek and destroy all such crapware.
I think it depends more on the quality of the software you run. If you run just one program ever, but it has memory leaks and other bugs, it can cause problems all by itself. Certainly, âcrapwareâ is infamous for being badly coded.
Itâs not just OEM pcs, many products from brands that frankly should know better, such as razer and asus, offer crapware with many of their peripherals, iCue is another example. The frustrating part is that so far, as an owner of many products these companies is that just plugging the device in, without the apps, still works fine and saves RAM / CPU / Telemetry to boot.
They get 
for preloading the crapware, tho.
i have 16 gb too and it works fine.
Nah ur good 
Thanks for everyoneâs reply. I pulled the plug and banged some more ram in. Iâm sitting at 49% used with all my addons, websites, and apps. Iâm getting no micro stutters at all. The games running way better.
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Glad to hear it!
This is my resource usage in Linux btw so I donât even think it wouldâve helped youâŚ
You made the right call!
Btw that is a Chromium TAB. That browser is just ridiculous
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Just download some free ram!
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Wow yeah that is ridiculous the amount of ram itâs using haha
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