8GB of ram or 16GB?

[XxTRUEPINOYxX 10]

Should i go for 8GB of ram or 16GB i will do recording sometimes and Graphics card will be a EVGA GTX 970, CPU Intel i5-4690k.

[eduzumaki 12]

I think 8 GB is good to go,use the money of the RAM and try to buy an i7.

[XxTRUEPINOYxX 10]

I think 8 GB is good to go,use the money of the RAM and try to buy an i7.

Well I'm cap out on my budget if i try and go for i7

[amatt 10]

I have 8GB. Never had a problem, even when running a dedicated server while playing.

[PFC Javelina 15]

If you currently don't have an SSD, might be a consideration. to be honest, I haven't really noticed any diff, going from 8GB to 16GB.

[jshock 512]

Arma itself, at the moment, is a CPU intensive game, not RAM, so 8gb should be sufficient (I actually run a 6 year old laptop with 4gb), 16gb isn't really necessary, but it just depends on how much RAM the OS, recording software, and whatever else takes up in the background.

[yxman 90]

Arma doesn't support >2GB RAM.

[dreadedentity 278]

Arma doesn't support >2GB RAM.

32-bit applications can use a maximum of about 4GB so if for some reason Bohemia is actually refusing to use half of the available ram, this statement is false

[warlord554 2065]

Yxman is correct. Currently BI has not increased usuable ram, they've talked about it but nothing yet. Id go with 16gb ram if you have no budget for anything else. Not so much for the game but really helps if your a serious multi tasker

[forteh 11]

Yxman is correct. Currently BI has not increased usuable ram, they've talked about it but nothing yet. Id go with 16gb ram if you have no budget for anything else. Not so much for the game but really helps if your a serious multi tasker

The arma launcher states the maximum supported is around 3.2gig (the limit for 32bit I believe) and I regularly see ram usage above 5-6gig when playing arma. The only extra software running is afterburner, play with six and freetrack which doesn't equate to gigabytes of ram.

To the original question, 8gb is more than enough presently for arma. Although if they do manage to switch it over to 64bit then I can see the ram requirement expanding massively.

[EDcase 87]

8GB works fine for me.

I believe ARMA does not use more than 4GB itself so depends what else you are doing in the background, and of course you should be doing a little as possible.

Edited December 3, 2014 by EDcase

[haydnbuzz 10]

8GB works for me to with similar specs you mention.