Unless you are doings some serious graphics or audio work (professional quality), or running extremely complex research programs (hard science - University or National Lab level) there is no way that you need more than 16 GB or ram on any computer.
As Saturnian says; that unless you limit it; Windows automatically uses more ram the more ram there is available. I think its base setting is to use about 40-45 % of the ram available based on observations. My observation is that it just fills the ram with a lot of junk stuff that is not needed immediately - just in case it might be needed; or with recent history - just in case you want to go back to something you had worked on. Windows is a real kludge that way.
If you know enough you can limit how much ram Windows uses.
I need more than 16GB of RAM?
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Unless you are doings some serious graphics or audio work (professional quality), or running extremely complex research programs (hard science - University or National Lab level) there is no way that you need more than 16 GB or ram on any computer.
As Saturnian says; that unless you limit it; Windows automatically uses more ram the more ram there is available. I think its base setting is to use about 40-45 % of the ram available based on observations. My observation is that it just fills the ram with a lot of junk stuff that is not needed immediately - just in case it might be needed; or with recent history - just in case you want to go back to something you had worked on. Windows is a real kludge that way.
If you know enough you can limit how much ram Windows uses.