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12-23-2010, 01:23 PM
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Laptop ram question
So I'm using an Acer aspire 3820tg, has i5, 4g ram, ATI HD 5650 w/512 ram.
I'm pretty happy with the performance, but am wondering if there would be a huge performance increase going from 4g ram to 8g ram?
I'm looking for improvement all round, from opening files, browsing multiple websites, having multiple programs open and gaming.
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12-23-2010, 01:41 PM
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no... spend a bit more and get an SSD harddrive, i heard really good things about SSD over ram upgrades..
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12-23-2010, 01:42 PM
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Very unlikely.
Unless you know you're using specific programs that require huge amounts of memory.
Check your task manager or resource meters to see how much physical RAM you use.
I would suspect you're not using anywhere close to 4GB, in which case increasing it to 8GB would do nothing to improve performance.
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12-23-2010, 01:47 PM
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2gb -> 4 gb huge difference
4gb -> 8gb not so much unless you have programs specifically this resource heavy.
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12-24-2010, 04:06 AM
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i agree with enzo. go with ssd.
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