Get the 16GB. It’s not even close.

Yes. Spend the extra $30.

8GB of RAM is a bottleneck in 2025, even on a budget build. Modern AAA titles like Starfield, Cyberpunk 2077, or Call of Duty will stutter, crash, or refuse to run smoothly with 8GB. The GTX 1650 is already entry-level — you don’t want to kneecap it further by starving the system of memory.

$30 is lunch money. In this context, it’s the difference between “this game is playable” and “this game is a slideshow.” You’ll feel the pain of 8GB the second Windows and a browser chew up half of it before you even launch a game.

Future You will thank you when you’re not hunting for swap file tweaks.