16GB is the sweet spot for your home office PC.

Yes. With 20+ Chrome tabs, Word, and Spotify running at the same time, 8GB will have you fighting with your task manager. 16GB lets everything breathe.

Chrome is a memory hog. Each tab eats a couple hundred MB, and once you hit 8–10 tabs, the OS starts swapping to disk. That’s the stutter you feel when switching apps. Word and Spotify aren’t heavy, but they add up. 16GB gives you room to keep everything open without slowdowns.

It’s also cheap insurance. RAM is one of the easiest upgrades, and you won’t miss the $40–60 when you’re not waiting for tabs to reload.

This is one upgrade you’ll feel immediately.