I thought so too but also more so I can fill out those empty slots lol. But also windows only will allow me to use 22gb before it starts crashing and closing apps to keep it safe
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Yea and getting 2 monitors didn't help lol, enables me to do even more lol.
Maybe you need 2 more...
If you're not going to keep tracking a process/application 100% of the time (i.e. it doesn't need constant user interaction to do its job), then you can use it on a separate dedicated system, so it doesn't eat up all your resources and doesn't allow you to do something else.
I correct myself:
Doing everything at the same time on the same system is not the best way to do things...
The best results come when a system can do its job in a dedicated way so it can use all of its resources on a single task. I know this is opposite to nowadays multitasking culture, but that's something not all users are taking advantage of, even many software applications are not using that feature in a correct way.
Adding those 32GB of RAM will help at short term, but the benefit won't last forever, because you will want to do more things at once, and then, yes, you will need those 2 more monitors at some point.
I'd still argue that 8 is a good minimum for a PC, especially if its one that doesnt do anything big like editing or games or VMs or anything. For a gaming machine then you would need more (likely somewhere around 12gb is fine if you dont confine yourself to multiples of 8).
But in pretty much every case it depends on what the device is doing.
8 GB of RAM is way more than we used years ago. My first computer was really fast with only 1 GB of RAM back then, but today's software keeps wasting resources and are less optimized to use the system resources as they did when having way less RAM was an issue.
For a "common" user, 8 GB of RAM is more than OK, but for a gamer, that keep willing to have tons of RAM and processor power just to use it on a single task (precisely my point on my comment to
@xdarkmario), so the system does that single task the best way it can without issues, will never be enough. Because as soon as they include another resource demanding task, problems will arise.
