Can anyone help me what asus rog notebook to buy for a workstation?

[Peregrine]

I upgraded mine from 12GB to 16GB.
Got a memory widget. Annnnd... my laptop barely uses 8GB at max load.
Moral? 32GB is overkill.

[fostert]

Moral? 32GB is overkill.

Yes, it is pretty much. I don't know of many Windows apps that use this much memory so for the common gamer 32GB will do nothing, except enable you to run multiple games at once(!). But, that said, if I had 32GB that Windows could use and I gamed, I would create a massive RAM disk (24GB), copy the game files to it, and run the game off of there. Now that would be the ultimate in speed, even beating an SSD by an order or two of magnitude in gigabytes per second of bandwidth. Wow.

[Zygomorphic]

Yeah, 16 GB is more than enough for most, though a good-sized RAM disk would be pretty sweet. I can just imagine compiling the LINUX kernel in a RAM disk . If you have the budget and are going to open the case, upgrade the RAM to 32 GB (@fostert, time for you to move on to 64 GB ) and put in an SSD. The performance those things provide is pretty impressive. That will up your computer's speed even more than 16 GB of RAM will, unless you are @fostert , and carry a super-computer in a bag . I don't have an SSD, but I have seen people who have them, and it makes me jealous. The response time (not to mention bandwidth) of a good SSD improves OS performance better than anything else I know.

[fostert]

Thats some good advice @Zygo....spend your $$ on a SSD instead of 32GB RAM. A killer upgrade for sure that will be far more useful than a RAMdisk (since it won't be erased every time you boot!). In fact the ~$200-$280 you spend on 32GB will get you a very fast 240GB SSD instead.
Honestly I think I'd do that for me own G74 before I went to 64GB, but I keep watching for 4of these to come in a SODIMM package soon!! Ah, its not like my SandyBridge would recognize 64GB, but you know I'd be willing to try for the sake of science!!

[Zygomorphic]

So sure of this, are you? Always with you it cannot be done!

Actually, I thought it hilarious when you showed @MarshallR that the G74SX supported 32GB. Who knows, maybe the Ivy Bridge CPUs support 64...