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Thanks for the info.
I read up a fair bit on CPU when I bought mine and from what I could gather there wasnt really a massive dif in mine and the i5 4670k or whatever in most games.
I'll stick with 8GB for now then, annoyingly I have 24GB in my iMac which I could prob spare a bit from but none of it's interchangeable.
I'll grab a new PSU to clean things up a bit, currently I have to mount the drives on their sides due to the connectors on the PSU (they are meant to sit flush on the bottom of the case).
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My desktop and laptop both have 16GB but that's just overkill (RAM was cheap when I built the desktop, I got the laptop second hand from someone who'd specced it out to the max), I rarely come anywhere near that.
My desktop has a four year old i5 that is probably a little faster than your i3 (was only £150 four years ago) and it's never struggled.
Maybe log CPU usage for a while and see what maxes it out and whether it's noticeable https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx