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| Thread ID: 136297 | 2014-02-14 19:05:00 | RAM upgrade | Greg (193) | PC World Chat |
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| 1367629 | 2014-02-14 19:05:00 | My Win8 lappie currently has 8GB of RAM. If I double it will I experience a noticeable increase in performance? Thanks |
Greg (193) | ||
| 1367630 | 2014-02-14 19:14:00 | My Win8 lappie currently has 8GB of RAM. If I double it will I experience a noticeable increase in performance? Thanks In general? Probably not. All depends what else it has....CPU etc...and for what, gaming, just the net? However, if the RAM is cheap enough, it sure can't hurt, I doubled mine......no it didn't suddenly get a blazing increase in speed....but hey, it all helps and my RAM had gone down to dirt cheap prices. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1367631 | 2014-02-14 20:24:00 | No Very few people need more than 8, including gamers. For the things laptops generally get used for even less so. It may help to future proof the laptop depending how long you expect to keep it but that's about it. Of course if you want to play around with RAM drives or Virtual machines you may get some value out of it, not something I'd do on a laptop though. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1367632 | 2014-02-14 22:29:00 | ^^ what dugimodo said. I'd not bother, save your money, invest it in something else like a Solid State drive. THAT is a performance boost you'll notice immediately! | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1367633 | 2014-02-14 22:37:00 | ^^ what dugimodo said. I'd not bother, save your money, invest it in something else like a Solid State drive. THAT is a performance boost you'll notice immediately!I thought of an SSD (my machine has two hard drives so I easily could swap one), but am happy with the setup - not too keen on SSD's | Greg (193) | ||
| 1367634 | 2014-02-14 23:32:00 | One other thing, you need to check the laptop will take 16GB of Memory, some do some dont. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1367635 | 2014-02-15 00:03:00 | One other thing, you need to check the laptop will take 16GB of Memory, some do some dont.Yeah thanks. It'll take up to 32GB | Greg (193) | ||
| 1367636 | 2014-02-15 02:39:00 | I thought of an SSD (my machine has two hard drives so I easily could swap one), but am happy with the setup - not too keen on SSD's Why not? |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1367637 | 2014-02-15 03:38:00 | Migrating hard drives is a total pain unless you have an excellent backup procedure in place. I'm going to guess it's too much effort? | icow (15313) | ||
| 1367638 | 2014-02-15 03:41:00 | Migrating hard drives is a total pain unless you have an excellent backup procedure in place. I'm going to guess it's too much effort? Cloning's not hard. :p |
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