>Unless you run 3 or 4 instances of Visual Studio, SSMS, and Outlook all at the same time, 8Gig RAM should be enough
>

2 instances of SSMS (two different servers SQL Server 2014 and 2012), one instance of VS, one Outlook and lots of tabs (about 40+) in Google Chrome browser (I know you don't like it, but I use it).

Anyway, I hope to resolve some of the problems with our Admin on Monday.