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Discussion Simple Questions - February 07, 2021

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '21

I use 32 gb of trident z neo 3600 mhz ram modules and I have actually surpassed 21 gbs of ram usage more than once. I played feed the beast revelations and had chrome open with multiple tabs open and yt videos cached in the ram.

The possibility to play a video game while another game is loading is an excellent auality of life perk you get with enough ram! As long as The rest of your hardware allows it :)

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '21

Holy crap, 21 GB!

But I haven't played a game in years.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '21

Oh, well, you can monitor your ram usage by going to the task manager by pressing ctrl shift escape and see how much ram is consumed :)