Does upgrading my 4GB RAM to 8GB RAM minimize my disk usage?

[fluze]

So I'm just asking if I upgrade my DDR3 4GB RAM to 8GB RAM, will it minimize my disk usage?

Because when I play games like Fornite the disk usage usually go to 50%-90%

So does upgrading my ram makes windows 10 boot faster and minimize disk usage?

answers will be appreciated

 

[Cdog042501]

no upgrading your ram increases the amount of temporary storage a process uses at a given time, since you are gaming i do suggest going with 8gb you will see a nice performance boost, thats normal because the dist is being read and written from

 

[kanewolf]

no upgrading your ram increases the amount of temporary storage a process uses at a given time, since you are gaming i do suggest going with 8gb you will see a nice performance boost, thats normal because the dist is being read and written from

I would disagree with this. 4GB will cause Windows to have to use the pagefile frequently. That is disk usage. Having 8GB will lessen the need to use the pagefile. It won't eliminate it, but will minimize it. You could minimize it more by creating a fixed size pagefile of 8192MB or greater FIXED size. That will preallocate the page file. It won't be growing and shrinking. That could fragment the page file.

It may boot a little faster. But to really improve that you need to swap your OS onto a solid state disk.

 

[Cdog042501]

he definitely needs 8gb for gaming either way thats a must

 

[fluze]

I have many disk usage problems and it even goes around 0%-60% when no apps/games are running so my question is, does upgrading ram fix the disk usage? or should i upgrade my hdd?

 

[reedo_43]

Yes it will. When your system runs out of ram it does something called paging to disk which is very slow. There is a file called pagefile.sys that is specifically used for this. The more ram you have the less often this will happen.
https://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/definition/memory-paging

 

[fluze]

im back just ate lunch, sory for the delay

thanks for the answer, ill try upgrading my ram to 8GB
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wait, i have another question, so does this mean when i buy another 4GB ram, i'll find the same type of my ram (DDR3 4GB, Speed: 1600MHz) when i buy it?

 

[fluze]

is this compatible for my ram? https://www.lazada.com.ph/products/rammax-ddr3-1600mhz-4gb-so-dimm-ram-i640405-s808508.html

My ram: 4.00 GB DDR3 1600MHz

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[reedo_43]

If we are talking about a laptop then yes. Make sure the latency is the same. CL11 in this case.