My work laptop has 32GB of RAM, I wish it had 64. My home laptop has 32GB, and it's mostly fine, except for rare occasions. I would personally never go to 16GB, but it really depends on what you are doing.

For the anecdote, when I was interning at Ubisoft working on Assassin's Creed Odyssey, I had to compare two binary files and diff them. The files were map files of the game, the file I used was 24GB. To diff them, the easiest way was to load both of them in memory. I remember the first time I launched the tool I was making that was diffing the two and creating a patch, I was just staring at my RAM in Task manager. I had 64GB of RAM. I saw it spike to 30GB, 40GB, 50GB... 55GB... 59GB, I was getting nervous, I was like "do it! you can do it! I don't want to rewrite this to stream the content!".

It stayed at 59GB for a while, processed the diff, the patch, dumped it and memory went back down to ~15-20GB range and I've never been so happy in my life (don't tell my girlfriend).

Are you running those 2 memory ram sticks on proper 3200 MHZ? check it in CPUZ.

@Origine In fairness, I think even 16 GB does fine in 99% of situations for the average untidy person, and while I'd love to have a computer as good as that, it wouldn't make much difference to me, plus, it wouldn't be very portable, which is a priority for the foreseeable future.

It really depend on the use. For me, it wouldn't be.

if your main concern  is gaming, then 16 GB is more than enough  for you.

and i thought that 16 gb is the best ram on earth, i was so, so'o'o'o'o'o rong