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Everybody told me to just get 16GB of RAM but I'm glad I got myself 32GB! Just for simple usage on browsers, I'm already at least 14GB of memory and it goes up to 20GB or so when I multitask and game. I don't see how 16GB is good enough? I would be on the edge constantly.
Unless you are doings some serious graphics or audio work (professional quality), or running extremely complex research programs (hard science - University or National Lab level) there is no way that you need more than 16 GB or ram on any computer.
As Saturnian says; that unless you limit it; Windows automatically uses more ram the more ram there is available. I think its base setting is to use about 40-45 % of the ram available based on observations. My observation is that it just fills the ram with a lot of junk stuff that is not needed immediately - just in case it might be needed; or with recent history - just in case you want to go back to something you had worked on. Windows is a real kludge that way.
If you know enough you can limit how much ram Windows uses.
I run into issues with even 256GB of RAM but it's because I do a bit of audio engineering work and it requires being able to interchange hundreds of massive sound libraries quickly. It's unusual that you find yourself outright needing more than 16GB if you're not doing some sort of audio or graphic creation work though. That said, the jump from 8 to 16 is quite noticable for many.
I don't game these days and so I'm not familiar with the requirements of cutting-edge games and have little idea of what real-world difference you might see between 32GB versus 16GB with a particular title on your particular machine. My impression is that your graphics card will still have a much bigger impact on performance than your RAM, especially if you have an SSD. It's also the case that the placebo effect is very real, so I wouldn't be surprised if you firmly believe there's a difference in performance, when the measurable impact is actually so small as to be imperceptible.
What Saturnian says about Windows memory management is true. Windows will continue filling available RAM as more threads are used, but memory management is very good these days, and if you have a decent processor, decent motherboard, a decent SSD and the software has no memory management bugs, you shouldn't see any hesitation when switching from one task to another.
As it happens, I do have 32GB on my PCs, but that's because I occasionally render 3D models. The consensus in the forums for that particular modelling software is that it's a real memory glutton, and having that much RAM available noticeably reduces rendering times since it keeps the rendering engines in the graphics card fed.
You are an idiot who lacks critical thinking, experience and don't listen to advice, usually fucks things up because after real advise given does it anyway like a retard.
There are no games that need 32GB RAM in existence, that should tell you enough.
And closing web browsers is easy... I mean if you have 32GB and no SSD then you have issues.
Windows uses more RAM the more you add as a default, your RAM usage with 32GB RAM is not accurate as a comparison to a PC running 16GB due to this fact, more RAM = more base RAM Windows uses.