Quote from: N-drju on November 10, 2020, 04:14:24 AMWell, most of my current projects rarely exceed 14GB RAM, so I thought it's just enough.
Do yourself a favour and buy more RAM instead of the newer CPU. Especially if you can`t afford both.
16gb is just not enough for such a powerful processor and graphic card. They both will suffer from that. It`s a bottleneck.
The argument that your projects did not exceed 14gb is mute - it is the old machine your quoting, projects have limitations because of that. Once your Ryzen flys through your projects they WILL get bigger needing more RAM for sure.
And buying additional RAM later might end up in not being able to buy the same - which is not a problem per se - but might be.
Always best to get the amount of RAM in a bundle of 4 or more (do not use 3 or 5 or something like that). Sometimes using only two sticks of RAM may not allow you to enable quad channel mode (I presume the Ryzen cpu supports that). So four sticks would be needed. You have to check that with the specs of the mainboard you buy.
And we all know that TG uses less cores once the render is over 50% or so. But RAM will still be occupied. So you cannot use your computer to a good measure during that period with other software when there is no RAM left for idle cores.
Money is always an issue but you`d be on a safer side with at least 32gb (even more so 64gb) of RAM.
You are trying to start a business here, right? You cannot afford to loose a client because your computer ran out of RAM and could not finish a render in time...
my2cents
CHeers, Klaus