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Upgrading to 4GB RAM from 2GB (Question)
Replies: 9 — Last Post Feb. 8 12:38pm by allsmiles
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Just a quick question. Right now I'm using Windows 7 and my memory usage idles at 70% with my basic apps open (no games or video running). Now I use this computer for gaming and high def movie watching, and I'm just curious how much of an increase in performance am I going to see?

I'm upgrading to 4GB from 2GB.

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A lot, especially with Windows 7.

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windows 7 i dislike.. but it should give you a decent performance hike.

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That should improve the performance greatly. How much expandable? I would go with the max personally. That's what I'm going to do because mine can go up to 8 GB.

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That should give you a pretty sizable performance increases. Do you have a 64 bit version of Windows because if you do I'd go higher. RAM is cheap.

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It will be very good after the upgrade.
You will love it  

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Quote: from Neodymie at 6:20 pm on Feb. 2, 2010
That should give you a pretty sizable performance increases. Do you have a 64 bit version of Windows because if you do I'd go higher. RAM is cheap.

Relatively cheap. Performance RAM still sets you back a few bob.

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Quote: from allsmiles at 10:58 am on Feb. 2, 2010
Quote: from Neodymie at 6:20 pm on Feb. 2, 2010
That should give you a pretty sizable performance increases. Do you have a 64 bit version of Windows because if you do I'd go higher. RAM is cheap.

Relatively cheap. Performance RAM still sets you back a few bob.


Well yeah, but judging by his post I'm assuming he's not going to want or need anything particularly special.

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RAM is cheap?? more like expensive. I just paid 50 bucks for 2 gigs. And it's PC6400 thats old RAM that came out in like 2005.
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That is cheap for solid state memory.

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