Hardware Upgrading RAM I have a question

[The Real Jdbye]

I have never seen anything use more than 4.04GB. Never when gaming, 3D Modelling, video editing, video saving, live streaming. never. 8GB is good because uit gives you room IF you ever need it. 16 is a little too much.

If you have a browser open (especially if you use Chrome) and you run a game, you will quickly eat up 4GB of RAM, if you have a bit more stuff running you'll easily eat up 6 GB of RAM. 8 GB seems like the sweet spot where you never have to worry about running out, unless you do some extremely RAM-demanding stuff.

 

[JoostinOnline]

To the OP: I believe you will find the general consensus is that 6GB is safe, 8GB will give you extra room for cache, and anything above that wouldn't be worth the money you'd spend.

Pay attention to latency. You'll want the lowest latency possible. Don't go over 1600MHz on the speed (unless of course it's cheaper than the alternative), because there is a decent chance that your motherboard won't support higher speeds, and will just bottleneck the RAM.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

I am going to upgrade my laptop's RAM with a 1x8 ram stick, It's 1.5v and the ram sticks in my laptop are 1.35v I want to know if it's safe to use the 1.5v ram on a motherboard that has 1.35v ram chips in it or should I go for low voltage ram?

Also for laptop ram what brands are considered the best? I had bad luck with kingston awhile ago.

I think Kingston is supposed to be good, you probably just had bad luck.
Corsair also makes good RAM.
But really, there isn't a big difference between the different RAM manufacturers. I have Crucial Ballistix DDR3 RAM in my desktop and have had no problems with it, even though in the past dad gave me two Crucial Ballistix DDR2 RAM sticks and one of them turned out to be faulty.
You will definitely want to get 1.35v RAM as your motherboard might not support higher voltages or it might allow you to set higher voltages but cause damage to some components on the motherboard that aren't designed for 1.5v. The latter is probably not likely, as laptop BIOS' rarely allow you to change settings like that.
Other than that, just go with what is the cheapest (but of a well-known brand). I'm not sure about how much of a difference you will notice with higher mhz RAM but it certainly won't hurt to go with higher mhz as long as the price difference isn't big. If you can find out the highest mhz RAM your motherboard/CPU supports then go with that. CAS timings don't make much of a difference but again it won't hurt to go with lower timings if the price is similar.

 

[DarkFlare69]

If you have a browser open (especially if you use Chrome) and you run a game, you will quickly eat up 4GB of RAM, if you have a bit more stuff running you'll easily eat up 6 GB of RAM. 8 GB seems like the sweet spot where you never have to worry about running out, unless you do some extremely RAM-demanding stuff.

I have never personally experienced that because if i try to play a game with other stuff open it'll lag xD but seems logical for people who's PC can handle chrome + games