Check first, upgrade second.

Probably, but only if your blue screens are actually caused by running out of memory — not by bad RAM, drivers, or something else.

Here’s the thing: a true “memory insufficiency” blue screen happens when your system runs out of physical RAM and starts thrashing the pagefile on your hard drive. If you see high memory usage (90%+) in Task Manager right before the crash, and your workload typically demands more than 8GB, then jumping to 16GB will likely stop the crashes.

But a lot of blue screens get misdiagnosed as “need more RAM” when the real issue is a faulty stick, a corrupted driver, or even a dying power supply. Before buying anything, run Windows Memory Diagnostic or MemTest86. If errors pop up, replace the RAM — don’t just add more. Also check the minidump files or use BlueScreenView to see if the crash points to a specific driver.

If your RAM is healthy and you’re just bumping up against 8GB regularly with Chrome tabs and Spotify open, 16GB is a solid upgrade that’ll fix the problem. If it’s something else, you’re wasting money.

Don’t buy RAM until you know the actual culprit.