4GB is fine. 8GB is great. Any more than that except for users of memory intensive programs like professional video editing and large database use is overkill.


Adding more memory isn’t the performance upgrade it used to be, but how much RAM is enough? TechSpot compared application performance on a system with 4GB, 8GB, and 16GB and concludes 16GB offers little advantage over 8GB of memory—even when programs use more than 8GB of memory.