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Do I absolutely need more than 16G of DDR4 for BeamNG?

Discussion in 'Computer Hardware' started by StephenRitchie74, Apr 28, 2025.

  1. StephenRitchie74

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    I'm working on replacing the internals of my old PC specifically for BeamNG, and my planned specs are:

    MSI RX 570 4G
    Ryzen 5 1600
    MSI A320M/B350M (or 500 if I can afford it)

    Having 16 gigs of RAM would allow me to stick with the cheaper A320/520 motherboards, but I could get another 16G stick for $20. Is it worth the extra $40 or so to have the B350/550 motherboards and 32G of RAM? Of course it would take longer to save the money for the motherboard especially considering I'm spending more on the RAM, but I just wondered if it was worth it. Thanks in advance
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    I forgot to specify that the A320/520 has two RAM slots while the B350/550 has four. And also if I got the B350/550 and had four slots, I'd have an empty one since I have 2 8G sticks right now and I can only get a 16G stick.
     
  2. Jefferson KANG

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    16gb of ram is possible, btw not recommended for beamng specially recent beamng versions
    and that rx 570 4gb is not getting any driver update, so I can say its dead gpu cuz so old
    and for cpu its 1600 btw im recommend getting at least 3000 series
     
  3. StephenRitchie74

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    I'm on a budget here. Got the RX 570 for $45 and the 16G of RAM that I have was $20, so yeah I know a Ryzen 5 3600 would be better for my computer but it would be worse for my wallet. I just need the cpu and need to pick the motherboard and get it to be done and I just need to know if it's worth it to get the extra RAM. It would also only run at single channel if I got the 16gig stick. I guess it really depends on how much money I have when school gets out
     
  4. Jefferson KANG

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    ok got it, just do only 32 gb ram
     
  5. StephenRitchie74

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    Somehow the A520M motherboards are cheaper than the A320Ms lol so unless I somehow get a lot of money for a B550M and the extra RAM i will stick to 16 (which is better than having 15GB of DDR3-1333 like I have now)
     
  6. Wesley778899

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    yes en in this time 32gb min req but with mods go for 64gb i play with mods and it uses all the 32gb ram and lowers my fps to 10-30 and i tested it out with a slower sticks with my 32gb and it made a big improvement
     
  7. StephenRitchie74

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    How many mods do you even have? They don't affect my performance with 20GB of DDR3-1600 and 100 or so mods
     
  8. Tyler-98-W68

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    Yes you do, you start adding in traffic, or large levels and yes system ram more than 16Gb is going to be needed
     
  9. StephenRitchie74

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    traffic isnt hard on ram really but a big map like Willfa's world map prolly would yea
     
  10. Tyler-98-W68

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    You havent tried spawning lots of traffic have you? I can spawn 50 cars in los injurus and see 5gb of system ram use increase just from that alone
     
  11. StephenRitchie74

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    I wouldn't be able to spawn more than maybe 10-15 traffic so I doubt it would matter
     
  12. Tyler-98-W68

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    You doubt it would matter? So basically making up BS statements and can't back them up? Sounds about right about most people around here.
     
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