Solved not seeing a difference?

[HarriePateman]

Hey guys.

Well i just put another 4gb 1600mhz in my machine, bringing her up-to 8gb. But im not noticing a difference?

 

[paulpicks21]

Hello Harribo,

What kind of difference were you hoping for or expecting?

Adding RAM will not increase the performance of a PC. It comes in useful when you are using programs which may take (in your case) the total RAM usage to 4GB where before the whole system would bog down and come to a standstill. But now with the extra 4GB you should not need to worry about that ever happening.

Hope that makes sense, I don't think I worded it very well lol.

Paul.

 

[Solarstarshines]

Pretty much to break it down you will not notice anything unless you are using programs that need more then 2GB of ram to run it

Most typical browsers and apps take maybe 2.2GB of ram programs like Adobe premier might take 5 GB to run leaving your system with 1gb left on standby and you will be pretty much maxing it out but if you are not running extensive apps then 8GB is way plenty

 

[LMiller7]

Within reasonable limits adding RAM will improve performance. But there will always be a point of diminishing returns beyond which there will be no noticeable gains. With most workloads you will already be past that point with 4 GB RAM.

 

[badger906]

youll notice it if you try and encode a 1080p video while playing a game ... thats if your cpu doesnt grind to a halt..

 

[AddRAM]

Once you start piling the programs into memory, you will see how much quicker they can open.

 

[HarriePateman]

Yeah, I dont really know what i was hoping for to be honest lol!

 

[badger906]

now going from 4mb of ram to 8mb of ram that was massive!!! remeber the day my dad came home with a new stick of ram and a massive 15" monitor!!

 

[HarriePateman]

now going from 4mb of ram to 8mb of ram that was massive!!! remeber the day my dad came home with a new stick of ram and a massive 15" monitor!!

BLIMEY, how long ago was that? im only 17! :shock:

 

[badger906]

erm 93 or 94 was definutly before windows 95 as I remember getting that as well.

was rare to have a family computer. remember when one day at school the teachers were like "we have a suprise for you all" and they wheeled in a computer.. everyone was amazed.. I was like meh mines better

 

[HarriePateman]

erm 93 or 94 was definutly before windows 95 as I remember getting that as well.

was rare to have a family computer. remember when one day at school the teachers were like "we have a suprise for you all" and they wheeled in a computer.. everyone was amazed.. I was like meh mines better

Haha, My friends brothers school (hes 8) has ipads! CRAZY

 

[Solarstarshines]

now going from 4mb of ram to 8mb of ram that was massive!!! remeber the day my dad came home with a new stick of ram and a massive 15" monitor!!

lol My first Computer i bought myself in 94 was 8 mb of ram 8gb hard drive windows 95 28.8 modem cd rom and 15 " monitor Pentium 133mhz LOL got it for $1200.00 back in the day Circuit City

 

[sygnus21]

As everyone has said, you won't notice anything unless you start pilling programs into memory or do some memory intensive tasks like Photoshop editing or video encoding. I've 32 gig of memory and outside of intensive multitasking, and photo editing in Photoshop... meh. But, as a photographer, I often create Photoshop files that can than grow as large as a gig so I need all the memory I can get.

Anyway if you really want to see a performance boost... get an SSD drive

 

[HarriePateman]

Thinking about it, its alot of money though. I saw a FPS boost though!

 

[sygnus21]

Can't say I saw any FPS boost by increasing my RAM, and I'm a huge gamer.

 

[Solarstarshines]

Memory only decreases loading times with games on a Hard drive but not by leaps and bounds

as for getting extra FPS you might of had a Videocard driver update that would be the only way unless you Overclocked the CPU and then yea you will for sure see gains

Actually you have HD graphics so it did help it only because your IGPU is memory dependent

 

[HarriePateman]

Can't say I saw any FPS boost by increasing my RAM, and I'm a huge gamer.

Look at my specs

 

[badger906]

you can get a 60gb SSD for less than £40 or 120gb for £55 on ebuyer! not exactly a fortune for the performance gain youll get in return!!

 

[sygnus21]

Can't say I saw any FPS boost by increasing my RAM, and I'm a huge gamer.

Look at my specs

I should have said you usually don't see FPS increases, but yes, that's system dependent.

 

[Thedoctor44]

Well you won't see any performance difference unless you start running out of physical memory and start relying on virtual memory. By that I mean you start having to page in and out from disk a lot more than usual because you are using more memory than what is available, Windows basically uses disk storage as temporary memory. Your computer will work but it will run so slowly and your programs will start to crash, after a while you will probably experience your system slowing down to the point where it crashes all together.
So unless you intend on opening a lot of processes at once you will notice little to no difference in performance.