Under utilized RAM

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kiimas karu

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I have a Dell Inspiron 8200 with a 1.7 Pentium 4 CPU. I recently upgraded from 384 to a Kingston 1024 RAM. I expected to see greater performance, but I do not see much difference!

Almost all of the time I see around 600-700 RAM unused! Is there something I need to do to make the RAM usage more efficient? Even if I run several RAM intensive applications at the same time there is still plenty of RAM, but the performance is not great.

What steps am I forgetting?
 
There isn't anything to make your computer use more RAM... It just depends on the programs using it... Try opening a couple of tabs in IE7 or Firefox, media player and a couple of apps and you should see it go up.

I've got IE7 (3 tabs) media player and Fireworks open and I have 600MB left... I don't think it's a problem :D
 
You don't want your computer to use more RAM. The less RAM it's using the better :P More RAM(unless you're running some very intensive program) typically means more processes running, which in turn means less performance.

Adding RAM will not speed up your computer. It does not make the processor run any faster or anything like that. About all RAM allows is for a smaller swap file. In this case, the hard drive doesn't have to be used as much which helps with load times. However, raw performance is unaffected.
 
Increasing the amout of ram you had will make it alittle faster loading and running programs because your not using as much Virtual memory, but increasing the amount does not mean it runs faster, say going from DDR 400 512mbs to DDr 400 1gb it still runs at the same speed you just have more of it.
 
You can disable the page file, which will remove the virtual hard drive RAM to the physical RAM.

Right click on My Computer > Properties > Performance > then disable/lower the page file.
 
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