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Shalom and greetings all my pals,

Just bought a new laptop for general use. It is very powerful but only with 16GB ram. Do all of you think 16GB ram is enough for general use such as internet surfing, Photoshop editing, Paint Shop Pro Ultimate editing, video streaming, and anything non flight sim related?

Regards,

Aharon

yeah m8 16GB will be plenty, do you know what graphics chipset it has?

deeknow wrote:yeah m8 16GB will be plenty, do you know what graphics chipset it has?

Thanks It is Nivida 6GB dedicated video ram via NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Regards,

Aharon

Aharon wrote:Thanks It is Nivida 6GB dedicated video ram via NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

Thats a decent GPU too for a laptop, limiting factor may be the 6GB, on a desktop you'd be shopping for a 8GB card these days but in a laptop it's probably not a goer without lots of $$$, or using more power.

16 could be plenty, but it is also probably easy to upgrade too; I just added 16GB to my work laptop and it took 20 mins. Personally, I'd do it while you can still get it. It won't 'hurt' and if you have the spare cash it will provide at least a little benefit, especially for some of the more memory hungry work. Necessary? No. Desirable; yes
I'd also check carefully the specs; if the 6GB for the Nvidia is taken from the main memory pool and not separate and physically dedicated, then I'd certainly add memory.

deeknow wrote: Thats a decent GPU too for a laptop, limiting factor may be the 6GB, on a desktop you'd be shopping for a 8GB card these days but in a laptop it's probably not a goer without lots of $$$, or using more power.

Thanks I think 6 GB is plenty even for any flight simming even though I have NO plans to use new laptop for flight simming. It will be general purpose with lots of Photoshop and Corel Paint Shop Ultimate Pro editings for screenshots. But theoretically, this new laptop can handle FSX, P3Dv5, and XP-12 but not sure for MS2020

jpreou wrote:16 could be plenty, but it is also probably easy to upgrade too; I just added 16GB to my work laptop and it took 20 mins. Personally, I'd do it while you can still get it. It won't 'hurt' and if you have the spare cash it will provide at least a little benefit, especially for some of the more memory hungry work. Necessary? No. Desirable; yes

Thanks I always use 32 GB for my laptops but this is first time I bought new laptop with 16 GB because the sale price was fantastic with 900 bucks off!!! Yes I can upgrade to 32 GB for 50 bucks or 64 GB for 100 bucks but I will wait and see if the laptop can handle my demanding computing using 16 GB ram

jpreou wrote: I'd also check carefully the specs; if the 6GB for the Nvidia is taken from the main memory pool and not separate and physically dedicated, then I'd certainly add memory.

It is strictly dedicated video ram. I avoid any laptop that has shared video memory ram.

Regards,

Aharon

Aharon wrote:Thanks I think 6 GB is plenty even for any flight simming even though I have NO plans to use new laptop for flight simming.

Yeah excellent for general purpose use. Re Simming tho you will regularly hit the VRAM limit with 6GB under P3Dv5 and definitely with FSX (you run that now right?) unless you turn down the various realism settings, esp with complex aircraft or airports. As I said earlier, don't really expect 6GB on a laptop but on a desktop I'd be going for 8GB these days

Well, my new laptop even though very powerful will be used for general purposes for me which includes screenshot editing and publishing. I do not think that in view of much superior MS2020, it is worth for me to buy P3Dv5. I plan to buy another separate laptop for use of MS2020 in 2 years or so OR when MS2020 has ALL planes that FSX has especially all historic jet planes whenever comes first.

Regards,

Aharon