Upgrading from 8GB to 16GB RAM?

[BFG10K]

There are some good (niche) reasons to upgrade from 8GB to 16GB, but if you have to ask, they probably don’t apply to you.

 

[smangular]

Even though I have 16GB of ram I had ran out of ram recently and had to restart my browsers (which cleared about 12GB of ram)
Restarting browsers is a chore and having more RAM means I gotta do it less often.

I have to ask, how in the world do you get your web browser to eat 12GB? Never close a tab?

 

[schmutz06]

I have a really hard time believing even the most intense video editors are somehow utilizing a full 16gb of RAM.. let alone 32 and 64 GB of RAM.

Have you used any composition software like After Effects before? 16GB+ RAM makes a massive difference. And for multiprocessing, rendering several frames at a time each processor thread requires it's own dedicated RAM allocation. I have difficulty utilising 8 threads on my 2600K for multiprocessing with just 16GB RAM and believe I would see a very significant performance improvement using 32GB RAM. Also, when I'm going nuts producing music, graphical assets and compiling them all into a video product my 16GB is being squeezed to death. I love to work with 10 programs open at once. I'm just waiting for 8GB sticks to become affordable so I can get 32GB.

 

[taltamir]

I have to ask, how in the world do you get your web browser to eat 12GB? Never close a tab?

I was at 14GB of RAM used by browser, restarting them with the "reload last open pages" reduced it to 2GB. Hence 12GB "saved" via restarting the browsers
Memory leaks

I do, however, like to keep a large amount of tabs open. My record was 6GB of actual RAM use for browsers only (that is, 6GB after restarting the browsers to eliminate memory leaks)
I use FF, Chrome, and Iron.