How much ram is enough ram?

How much ram is enough ram?
Building a new pc for my mom and trying to decide if I can get away with 4gb or if she'll need more.

My netbook works fine with 2gb, but that's running 32bit windows

>4gb
>2gb
>netbook

y r u so pour?

Not everyone plays hardcore vidya.
2-4GB should be fine for a facebook machine

Don't ever get a netbook. Atom processor is very slow. For the price now you can get a laptop that's much faster. go look at newegg or something.

>My netbook works fine with 2gb
Nigger, 2GB was a bit weak back in 2007. Today it's just completely useless.

>How much ram is enough ram?
Anything less than 16GB is pathetic unless you are going for a complete hobo build.

>Building a new pc for my mom
2-4GB is enough.
8-16 GB can be over kill unless your mom edits images and videos.

How many big macs did these nip-nong lady just eat?

4-8gb.

4GB is more than enough for basic desktop computing.

What?

What?

What?

That's what I was thinking too, Just not sure since my desktop has 12GB.

It'll just be a facebook machine for the most part.

>Just not sure since my desktop has 12GB
Pre-built model?
Also, I would only build if its cheaper than a prebuild computer so make sure you check what is cheaper.

Nah, built it with 4GB, added 8 more when I started playing video games.

I was thinking of something cheap like an i3 6100, but I could also get the a8 7600 for 50aud cheaper. I don't think I'd buy her a pre-built

7x3=21 When do you enter elementary school?

> not vomiting it all at the end of the video
disappointing

Install gentoo and go with 2gb

Put 6 to be safe, if she's not going to be playing games, then she won't need 16 or 32GB. Besides, RAM is one of the cheapest parts.

4-8 for "generic web browsing, video watching, etc" computer

8 if they will play games

16 if specifically ram heavy applications

When I enter your mom

No, it should be

>4 for generic web browsing, etc
>8-16 for video games
>32GB+ for ram heavy applications

yeah, that's probably better. it depends a lot on specifics for when and by how much you should go over 16 GB.

True, plus I'm pretty sure 2gb would be enough for a lot of people too, but it's almost the same price as 4gb, so not worth it

my asus notebook also has 2GB but my future laptop will have 16 so yeahhh

Don't be a stingy fuck and get your mom at least 4gb of ram

What heavy applications need more than 32gb?

>she will never cut me open and consume my flesh
Why live

She ate 18 you idiot, count

>having a puke fetish
disappointing

Google Chrome

8gb, its only around 30$ us. If you cant afford that, then why are you building that for you mom?

Idiots.

Man, I'd love to see her shit all of that out.

>My machine plays vidya all day
>Movies, games, music constantly downloading
>This happens while multiple scans constantly monitor for possible malware
>$300 laptop with 4gb ram and half terabyte memory running windows ten
You do not need a lot of ram my boy

No, no. Common core says that estimates are better in practical situations. Even if you could count that they're 18, the only right answer is 21.

As someone who works at a computer store owned by chinks, it depends on the os. Windows 7 or higher, dont get less than 4gb of ram. Because of the cheapness of ram, 8 is preferable, but in no way required.

I would say 4gb with 120gb ssd and a pentium would be fine.(newer pentium. If you are getting old parts, i3 would be better)