2 minutes ago, EmaRacing said:

No game that I played till now used more than 6-8GB, that's why I called overkill, but this sim is something different. 

I also noticed (might be a coincidence though) that everyone that was admitted in the beta and that I read the specs of, has 32GB.

I have 16 and am not compelled to add more until Zen3 and RTX3000 series cards convince me to build a new system. Take that for whatever it is worth. 

Using No Man's Sky in ultra 1080p consumes around 11gb, BFV 13gb, and I've seen leaked pics of guys getting exactly 16gb in alpha. So it's definetly not overkill.

 

And be aware as a flight simmer you'll be wanting to open some chrome tabs to consult METAR, TAF, charts, flight plan, etc.

Edited August 6, 20205 yr by andrecarli737

Just now, andrecarli737 said:

Using No Man's Sky in ultra 1080p consumes around 11gb, BFV 13gb, and I've seen leaked pics of guys getting exactly 16gb in alpha. So it's definetly not overkill.

And even then No Man's Sky can crash out unexpectedly, which is why I save it every five mins lol

This tester highly, highly, highly recommends 32GB.

I would say if you can afford it go to 32gb of ram. 16gb should get you bye for now, but you might run into trouble in the future. If you are building a new machine like me, or upgrade the current one might as well future proof the computer while you can and go for the higher option. I'm using 2 16gb Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4 in my new build.

If you can't afford to spend the extra money then go with 16gb but be prepared that you will need to spend more in the future on either another set of 16gb or a set of 32gb to replace them.

Consider the following and decide:

1) Ideal specs from MS indicate 32gb

2) When I asked, one user indicated he'd seen up to 20gb used (and this is with zero add-ons)

3) I sprang for an additional 16gb this week, so without a doubt, MS will optimize for the release and reduce the footprint by half. 

quad channel it is then😁

Edited August 6, 20205 yr by EmaRacing

I just built a new PC and I went with 32GB of DDR4 3600, a lot of really fast RAM.  I figured having more couldn't hurt!

I have this https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/MAXIMUS-VIII-RANGER/ motherboard, and I was wondering if you could take a moment to suggest what ram I should be looking for that will be compatible with it? Im on an i7-6700k cpu. 

16 GB is probably good for MSFS 2020, but if you have multi monitors with additional applications running that don't run in the same space as the sim, it's always good to have a little xtra on hand.

2 minutes ago, Andreas Stangenes said:

I have this https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/MAXIMUS-VIII-RANGER/ motherboard, and I was wondering if you could take a moment to suggest what ram I should be looking for that will be compatible with it? Im on an i7-6700k cpu. 

ASUS should have a compatibility list, just like with CPUs and GPUs.  I always try to get components that have been tested with MB, CPU and Memory.

Edited August 6, 20205 yr by SmokeDiddy

32 if you can but 16 isn't a show stopper from my experiment .  8 seems low to me considering the overhead with Windows

Edited August 6, 20205 yr by joec63

I got these Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200MHz 32GB that seem compatible with my mb. Dual channel 3200mhz (2x16gb). 

57 minutes ago, EmaRacing said:

It seems overkill to me, and I'd appreciate some beta tester's opinion...

To avoid violating the NDA I'll phrase it like this:

Is it a good moment for flight simmers to upgrade from 16GB to 32GB?

I have 64GB of ram. Call me Mr. Futureproof.

Edited August 6, 20205 yr by B777ER

For flight simmers, 64 GB is the new 32 GB. The more overhead you give Windows the better (to a point).