First off, my specs are as follows:
Intel i5 760 2.80GHz (stock speed)
G.Skill Ripjaw 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz
Sapphire ATI Radeon 5850 (stock speed)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB
BenQ 24’’
Windows 7 64-bit
I was wondering if I will see much if any performance increase if I were to double up on my RAM? The setup is purely for gaming. I assume that most games will only access 4GB of RAM, which is fine, but would not adding another 2x2 of the same make actually help the computer perform by letting the superfluous RAM as it were handle any background processes? I like to game while having both Firefox or Google Chrome and Windows Media Player or a different media player running in the background. I am not dissatisfied with my computer performance by any stretch, and I know that either overclocking the CPU or the GPU will increase the performance much more, but I am not willing to void any warranties. I am merely looking for a way to squeeze a little more out of the rig for under a hundred pounds.
I am not really looking for an analysis of whether it is worth it or not, I am more interested in an objective view on whether there is anything to gain from doing this and what kind of dividends one might be looking at.
Additionally, seeing that Windows 7 64-bit is set up to recognise a lot more RAM than any other Windows OS, is it fair to assume that going up to eight GB RAM would increase the system performance as such, or will I find that other components will bottleneck the computer way before I can expect to see a difference between the two memory quantities?
Intel i5 760 2.80GHz (stock speed)
G.Skill Ripjaw 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz
Sapphire ATI Radeon 5850 (stock speed)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB
BenQ 24’’
Windows 7 64-bit
I was wondering if I will see much if any performance increase if I were to double up on my RAM? The setup is purely for gaming. I assume that most games will only access 4GB of RAM, which is fine, but would not adding another 2x2 of the same make actually help the computer perform by letting the superfluous RAM as it were handle any background processes? I like to game while having both Firefox or Google Chrome and Windows Media Player or a different media player running in the background. I am not dissatisfied with my computer performance by any stretch, and I know that either overclocking the CPU or the GPU will increase the performance much more, but I am not willing to void any warranties. I am merely looking for a way to squeeze a little more out of the rig for under a hundred pounds.
I am not really looking for an analysis of whether it is worth it or not, I am more interested in an objective view on whether there is anything to gain from doing this and what kind of dividends one might be looking at.
Additionally, seeing that Windows 7 64-bit is set up to recognise a lot more RAM than any other Windows OS, is it fair to assume that going up to eight GB RAM would increase the system performance as such, or will I find that other components will bottleneck the computer way before I can expect to see a difference between the two memory quantities?