Adding one Gig memory?

JerryB · 02-02-2011, 05:54 AM

I have 3 gigs memory now and the computer runs good.
Would I gain any significant perfomance by adding another gig of memory?
Running Win 7.

Grantofhell · 02-02-2011, 11:28 AM

Windows 7 32 or 64 bit?

Regardless, unless you do some fairly intensive work on your machine, you won't see much of a benefit above 3GB of RAM. Though, with as cheap as RAM got in two month's time...It certainly couldn't hurt to add some while it's cheap. Just remember to pick up the same or nearly similar model. All of your RAM must run at the same speed, and it will always run all of your RAM at the speed of your slowest stick if they are different.

JerryB · 02-04-2011, 04:43 AM

Thank you for the advice my friend. That's kind of what I figured.
This was bought by my ex-wife new a year ago with a low end AMD Sempron processor and puny video card... So I replaced these plus added another fan, and this machine is very fast for what I use it for..

02-02-2011, 05:54 AM	#1
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Grantofhell Fully Optimized Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 3,735	Re: Adding one Gig memory? Windows 7 32 or 64 bit? Regardless, unless you do some fairly intensive work on your machine, you won't see much of a benefit above 3GB of RAM. Though, with as cheap as RAM got in two month's time...It certainly couldn't hurt to add some while it's cheap. Just remember to pick up the same or nearly similar model. All of your RAM must run at the same speed, and it will always run all of your RAM at the speed of your slowest stick if they are different. __________________ Intel i7 950 @ 3.06 (133x23) // Evga 132-E758-A1 x58 SLI // Evga GeForce GTX 470 SC 1280MB // 6GB OCZ Reaper HPC PC3-16000 (3x2) // OCZ Vertex Turbo 30GB/64MB // SeaGate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB/16MB // Corsair 850HX-P // SilverStone TJ07 Koolance CPU-340 // Koolance VID-NX470 // EnzoTech Evx-58 // DangerDen BlackICE 240GTS // DangerDen BlackICE 240GTX // OCZ HydroPulse 500 // BitsPower Z-tank Inline 80mm // Asus VW266h // Logitech G9 // Saitek Cyborg

02-04-2011, 04:43 AM	#3
JerryB Baseband Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 42	Re: Adding one Gig memory? Thank you for the advice my friend. That's kind of what I figured. This was bought by my ex-wife new a year ago with a low end AMD Sempron processor and puny video card... So I replaced these plus added another fan, and this machine is very fast for what I use it for.. __________________ AMD Phenom 8750 Triple Core 2.4 GHz., 3 GB Memory, NVidia GeForce 9500 GT video card, D-Link Powerline Network Adapter Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.

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