Will going from 8Gb to 16Gb increase performance?

[Silvertongue19]

Hello Toms Community,

I noticed a lot of great deals on RAM for Cyber Monday and was wondering if going from 8Gb's to 16Gb's will have any type of performance increase at all.

For example, would it make games load faster? BF4, ect.

Would it speed up windows in anyway?

Or it merely just to show the number "16" on your spec sheet, as from my experience most people never recommend more than 8Gb's anyway.

If there is any benefit, please let me now. Thanks for your help!

 

[rgd1101]

not really, it would help if you run a lot of programs at the same time or a programs(e.g. video editing) that use a lot of temp memory space.

 

[laviniuc]

games no not even load times those depend on the hdd. they rarely use even 8gb. windows yes. a bit. you'd want 16gb also if you have a ssd in the system. makes it safer to turn off the windows page file.

 

[Silvertongue19]

Thank you. Can you expand a bit more on the page file? I am using an SSD for my boot drive, with a couple other HHD's for games and media.

 

[laviniuc]

Heres how:

-Open the Start Menu and go to Control Panel
-Click on the System icon
-Select the Advanced tab
-Under Performance, click Settings
-Go to Advanced
-Under Virtual Memory, click Change
-Select No Paging File and then click Set
-Click OK in all the menus
-Restart

Windows will now keep all the memory on the RAM and will make your computer run faster. Just be careful not to let your memory go past the amount of RAM you have.

also make sure trim is enabled and ahci mode is set (in bios). if sata mode is ide or raid post before changing it or you could kill your os.
other ssd specifics are:
-disable superfetch and prefecth
-disable indexing
-disable hibernation (this is a must)

 

[Tradesman1]

Move the page file to a regular platter type HD if you have one, some programs still want a page file

 

[Silvertongue19]

Thank you all.