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That's all fine and well, but using things, especially electronics, faster and with more power than intended will tend to make it break sooner. Don't trick yourself.

I'm well aware, but if HP doesn't think anyone should need more than 32 GB on that CPU, you probably don't need more. As I said, there are edge conditions where you could maybe use more.

More RAM will not always help with faster multitasking. The CPU can only do so many things in a second,

Example:
Say you have 3 50-operation programs you want to run.

Your CPU can only do 10 ops in a second, and it takes 2 seconds to transfer shit to RAM.

Anything more than 20B RAM is pointless.


EDIT: Just for the fun of it, GDDR5( GFX RAM, so your computer RAM probably gets nowhere near these speeds ) can transfer 4GB/s. Assuming a quad-core system @ 2.0 GHz( I'm lazy and want to keep math easy ), you get a sum of 8 GHz processor speed. That means that your processor needs only 8GB of accessible RAM to maintain perfect fluidity.

An example with more realistic numbers:

The best RAM available to consumers( Newegg's Extreme Gaming section ) gets ~20GB/s transfer speed
The best consumer CPU on NewEgg( for 1k ) is a 3.3GHz x 6 core processor, coming out to around 20GHz( rather convenient, really ).

This means that you, in theory, need only 20GB + 1B of RAM to maintain perfect speed.