How many of you just use your PC for gaming?

[Colif]

I ask because I was watching video on how much ram you need in your PC and they said no games need more than 32gb of ram now, and 64gb is throwing your money away.

And I thought, that is fine if all you use PC for is gaming, but I wonder how many actually just do have a PC just for gaming. Hence question.

I myself use it for everything so the added space may not have been a waste.

@Zed Clampet sort of relates to the mice question. If PC is just for one purpose, a single purpose mouse might make sense.

 

[Frindis]

I use it for gaming and other activities like rendering video/photo. When I get a new PC in a decade or so, I'll get more RAM, but right now 16GB RAM is more than enough for the lightweight tasks I do. I notice more AAA(A) games using more VRAM, but so far it has not been that much of a problem and my 8GB has been sufficient. I believe it was God of War and Dragons Dogma 2 that played sluggish on my computer because of high VRAM usage.

 

[Colif]

I was only getting 64gb as I had been doubling ram in all my PC for the last few builds, and have been known to run out of ram if a game has a memory leak (Diablo 4)
Most of the time I am at least using half of 32gb. Can depend if I have a YouTube tab open, only on 10gb now... that is pretty rare. On my old PC anyway. New install will be lighter for a while.
But I will see what my usage is like before I buy a new set.

I knew games didn't need more than 32gb unless you play Star Citizen. Most of the ones I play don't even use close to that.

 

[Pifanjr]

I pretty much only use my PC for gaming and occasionally for watching videos/movies. I have a separate laptop for work.

 

[neogunhero]

80% gaming, 20% other things. I like to make music on FL Studio, occasionally open Photoshop to mess around and make some art, prefer checking weather on my PC over my phone, study for work related licensing, but besides that it’s mostly gaming most of the time. I upgraded to 32GB just because DDR4 RAM is so cheap, and got better speeds on the new kit so it was a bonus, but I don’t use programs that require that much. I am seeing more games recommend it, but I think that’s if you’re playing at ultra graphics 1440p or higher, which I’m not.

 

[DXCHASE]

Gaming mainly. Its the main entertainment hub here for living room stuff so i dl movies/tv shows/music etc to watch and play along with general internet/pc app stuff but gaming is by far the main reason.

 

[Zed Clampet]

I use it for everything: videos, radio, AI, games, music, news, forums, chat...

For me, VRAM is more important because of the AI. Right now with 16 GB, I can run AI and play games, but it slows one or the other down. I don't have problems running AI and doing anything else, though. I've got it running AI right now, and you would never know it by how the PC is performing, but I've got the AI locked to 12 GB of VRAM. Not sure what would happen if I just let it use how much ever it wanted.

As for the mouse, my mouse is very flexible because I don't like the extremely light and limited use mice anyway.

 

[BeardyHat]

90% gaming, but other little things here and there. Research, watching TV, fussing with my network equipment, etc

 

[Colif]

The sample size is small so far and its questionable how many will answer.
I think the target audience of purely gaming PC are young people. People who only want a PC to game on... and use phones to do everything else. or consoles.
Or people who can afford to have more than one PC and can specialise them.

Mine spends most of its time idling lol. Or playing videos.

Maybe Zed just needs this card

 

[Rolfil]

90% gaming. Although I also listen to music or podcasts at the same time. I often have 10+ browser tabs open on a second monitor.

I wanted to future proof my PC a bit so I went with a 4070ti SUPER and 64gb RAM. The only likely upgrades I might make are a second NvmE drive as I only have 2TB's and possibly replacing the GPU in 4-5 years time.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

My desk is in the living room and my chair is as comfortable as the sofa. I dislike using my phone for anything unless I have to, all my messaging apps are installed on the PC so I dont really use my phone at home. A keyboard and monitor is just way better for everything.

Probably game an hour or two a day on average, but spend several more hours doing other stuff as well.

 

[Johnway]

my gaming PC is my main PC, so i do pretty stuff outside of gaming on it. namely work or indulging in digital art.

 

[Zimbaly]

It do photography and art so I use it for that. I also stream stuff online to watch and listen to music.

 

[Zloth]

I do a little stuff outside of gaming, but none of it uses nearly as many resources as gaming.

A few 4X games will use more main memory to let the player make even bigger maps. I think Gal Civ takes 64GB and I know Distant Worlds 2 takes up to 48GB. The maps are procedurally generated, so they just make more star systems in your galaxy. There might be other procedurally generated, single-player games that could use the extra.

 

[Smellincoffee]

That's a strange thought to me. My computer is my school workhorse, video editor, word processor, music/media player....

 

[PointnClicker01]

This question is my Achilles‘ tendon, cause I have to admit… I have far too many computers and laptops at home so that one laptop I use it 90% for gaming only. 🙈
I also bought it as a games-only device, when I realized that my games started to clump up my work laptop… And my stationary PC barely has the RAM to run Solitaire
However, the 10% other usage of my gaming laptop was for computing and running 3D models once for a university course and once for the field work in Egypt. I admit I was rather nervous when transporting my precious gaming device into the sandy desert, but it all went well and no harm was done to my laptop. By now the project has their own calculation device (thankfully).
Nowadays, I am back to only use the laptop for gaming again. Though there‘s not much time for gaming currently…

P.S. Hi to you all! I‘m checking in after an eternity, cause I was (and still am) rather busy with my studies. I hope you haven‘t forgotten me 🙈

 

[Colif]

Technically I have 3 PC in my house now I could play games on... but only one has a good enough GPU. One has an almost dead GTX980 in it, the next has a 2070 Super and the last is my new PC. Last two are at least new enough to play most games.

It would be a use for one of them I guess.

I just don't have time to play any games right now. Half way through a course, and I don't want to be torn between a game and what I should be doing.

 

[Rataplan]

I use my pc for gaming, YouTube, WhatsApp, browsing the internet, e-mail, listen to music (YouTube and Spotify), watching television (usually just the 19h news), watching movies, scanning papers with my scanner, banking, administration and other things.

 

[Pifanjr]

P.S. Hi to you all! I‘m checking in after an eternity, cause I was (and still am) rather busy with my studies. I hope you haven‘t forgotten me 🙈

Welcome back! It hasn't even been a full year yet, for most of the people here that's just a blip in their long, long lives.

 

[PointnClicker01]

Welcome back! It hasn't even been a full year yet, for most of the people here that's just a blip in their long, long lives.

Thanks! Well, it felt like an eternity for me, haha. Probably because it was and still is the most stressful time of my life so far 😅
The long-term stress really gets me recently, so I try to get back to some productive hobbies that keep me writing, yet give me also some time to relax and a little distraction. So here I am.