What will an update of RAM do for me?

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Josh Rider

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Right now, my computer has 512 MB DDRRAM and I'm planning on upgrading it to either 1 GB or 2 GB. By updating it, what differences will I see, and will they be significant?
 
Well, you'll notice a difference in the overall performance of the computer. And I'd say that it'd be a pretty significant difference.
 
Every computer is different, if the computer you have, has no programs using more than 512 than your not going to see much, but if you are and your using your virtual memory then it will make a difference
 
It also does help if you are running multiple programs at the same time... Like I have Firefor, Winamp, AIM and Skype all running right now (with others in the taskbar). I have 768MB of RAM and wouldn't get as good of performance out of my PC with just 512MB or heaven forbid, 256! ;)
 
Well, 1gb is nice. I have that in mine, and it works rather well, but I must say you could possible triple the performance of your computer with 2gb. Because instead of using the page file (virtual memory) it just uses ram, which is MUST faster. Because VM has to work through the hard drive. In essence, you will get alot better performance!
 
At any given time, I have BitComet, AIM, MSNIM, Windows Media Player, BearShare, Photoshop, and Firefox on at once, so I guess by upgrading it will help with my multitasking.
 
Josh Rider said:
At any given time, I have BitComet, AIM, MSNIM, Windows Media Player, BearShare, Photoshop, and Firefox on at once, so I guess by upgrading it will help with my multitasking.
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Most definetly. If you game at all you may want to seriously consider going to 2gb as well, and it's never a bad idea.
 
Wait til you try burning CD's or DVD's with at least a gig of ram! Fast and flawless!
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irrelavant, the size of your ram has no bearing on the burning speed. It is not where the bottleneck lies.

That is of course unless your burning multiple cd/dvd's at once :)
 
Oh? WinRam Turbo Free shows me using up to around 750 MB of my RAM whenever I burn a CD using Nero. I have stopped burning coasters since I upgraded from 512MB of RAM last year, and I can now burn CDs at up to the max of 40x.
Tom
 
Oh? WinRam Turbo Free shows me using up to around 750 MB of my RAM whenever I burn a CD using Nero. I have stopped burning coasters since I upgraded from 512MB of RAM last year, and I can now burn CDs at up to the max of 40x.
Tom
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well if you burn at crazy speed like that you should expect coasters
 
If both the burner and media are rated at least 40x, I don't consider it crazy speed to expect both to live up to their advertised claims. In this case, I was lucky that the RAM upgrade solved my problems, and inexpensively.
Tom
 
If both the burner and media are rated at least 40x, I don't consider it crazy speed to expect both to live up to their advertised claims. In this case, I was lucky that the RAM upgrade solved my problems, and inexpensively.
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it depends on what you bruning, but regardless of its rated perfomance the errors rate skyrockets with faster burning, especially dvd's.
I'm glad the ram upgrade worked for you, and i always say that ram upgrade gives a good cheap performance boost. But i couldn't say it will speed up you burning speed, the bottle neck is always the burning. Even with 512mb ram you have ample to keep the write buffer full.
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Josh Rider said:
Right now, my computer has 512 MB DDRRAM and I'm planning on upgrading it to either 1 GB or 2 GB. By updating it, what differences will I see, and will they be significant?
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If I where you I would buy 2 gigs of Ram, it will help with your multitasking alot!
 
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