Question Would doubling the RAM make a big difference running Windows 11 Home ?

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I'm looking for some answers and was hoping the experts here could share their experience whether bumping the RAM from 16GB to 32GB DDR3 1600MHz would make a significant different in opening applications, surfing the internet and checking email Windows 11 Mail app. Also can someone tell me if this motherboard will support 16GB DIMM modules ? I can't seem to find out if it supports dimm modules higher than 8GB.

MBD: Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 Rev 1.3
CPU: i3-2120
HDD: Western Digital 1TB WD10EADS 7200RPM
 
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4 x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to 32 GB of system memory

above is from spec sheet; I take that to mean no more than 8 gb per stick.

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3-rev-13/sp#sp

Highly unlikely 32 rather than 16 would significantly differ for your stated tasks. Truthfully, you might not be able to tell 8 from 16.

The PC is a near-antique. I'd be reluctant to spend on it.
 
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Not much. Your use case doesn't require much RAM to begin with, so an upgrade wouldn't be beneficial unless you're planning on gaming or using some applications that would "use" the RAM.

Your motherboard does have support for 32GB of DDR3 RAM though.
 
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eh936 said:
I'm looking for some answers and was hoping the experts here could share their experience whether bumping the RAM from 16GB to 32GB DDR3 1600MHz would make a significant different in opening applications, surfing the internet and checking email Windows 11 Mail app. Also can someone tell me if this motherboard will support 16GB DIMM modules ? I can't seem to find out if it supports dimm modules higher than 8GB.

Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 Rev 1.3
CPU i3-2120
HDD Western Digital 1TB WD10EADS 5400RPM
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1. For that use case, you're probably not even using the current 16GB. So going to 32GB won't help any.

2. Your i3-2120 is far off the bottom of the Win 11 supported list. So, no real surprise that it is not running great.
 
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eh936 said:
I'm looking for some answers and was hoping the experts here could share their experience whether bumping the RAM from 16GB to 32GB DDR3 1600MHz would make a significant different in opening applications, surfing the internet and checking email Windows 11 Mail app. Also can someone tell me if this motherboard will support 16GB DIMM modules ? I can't seem to find out if it supports dimm modules higher than 8GB.

Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 Rev 1.3
CPU i3-2120
HDD Western Digital 1TB WD10EADS 7200RPM
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I'd say If you add an exact matching stick/ stick's of ram, say you have one or two to make up that 16GB you mention then you could potentially increase your pc's performance, possibly even enable dual channel memory mode, and that's a fact that doing so increases pc's performance if it would... now was daul channel possible on DDR3? by the looks of the manufacture page seems to be 4x8GB or 2x16GB depends if the MB has 4 slots or 2 available.

Only way would be to try it, going by what appears to be possible.
 
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What are you saying, ram expensive, when ever was a time when ram was expensive? Well ok maybe today if your opting for 256GB DDR5 @ the highest Mhz, but in the past I'd recall a time where I ever had to like save up for buying ram, and now I wasn't over spending or anything such, but it was easily possible to have mostly at least double what any game or windows required or application required.
 
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USAFRet said:
Well, if you want to go back in the past...$100 per megabyte.
Meaning a 16GB stick have been $1,600,000
(of course, that did not exist at the time)

But in the context of DDR3 as mentioned above, 2x 4GB (8GB) DDR3 in 2014 was around $65.
About the same price as 32GB DDR4 today.
1/4 the price.
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Jesus, right of course, totally did not think in that context, that's not what I was implying, great scott, I meant for the enthusiastic gamer with high upgrade ideas figuratively speaking. Which going by that there wasn't something such as a 16GB stick and they used to use that in megabyte sticks, the motherboards must have been huge, how far we have come, isn't it great, some would disagree, cause they can't make as much money if somebody had upgrade ideas or requirement, well they can if they just sell to more at lower prices, the whole reason pc's got so widely utilized isn't it, ah life is great.
 
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iTRiP said:
Jesus, right of course, totally did not think in that context, that's not what I was implying, great scott, I meant for the enthusiastic gamer with high upgrade ideas figuratively speaking. Which going by that there wasn't something such as a 16GB stick and they used to use that in megabyte sticks, the motherboards must have been huge, how far we have come, isn't it great, some would disagree, cause they can't make as much money if somebody had upgrade ideas or requirement, well they can if they just sell to more at lower prices, the whole reason pc's got so widely utilized isn't it, ah life is great.
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The "enthusiastic gamer" is on the fringe. Those are the people who would also spend $1k for a GPU.
NOT the mainstream.

"most people" don't and didn't need that much RAM.


And no, motherboards were not huge. No larger than today.
Just that software did not need as much.

2 or 4 RAM sticks were the same physical size, just not nearly the same capacity as today.
 
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What are you saying, ram expensive, when ever was a time when ram was expensive?
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Right now, I'm looking at a table I found and saved in 2014.

1957; 392 dollars per KILOBYTE; I guess that would be about 392 million dollars per GB....if you could find a machine that would accept a GB. This was "transistor flip flop" memory. 10000 nanoseconds speed.

1977; 575 dollars for 16 KB; that would be about 36 dollars per KB; about 36 million dollars per GB; prices dropped over 90 percent in 20 years. S-100 16K

1997; 37 dollars for 8 MEGABYTES; that's near 4625 per GB; a decline of over 99.9 percent since 1977. 2Mx32-60 SIMM EDO [72 pin].

2014; about 4 dollars per GB at Newegg; 4 GB DDR3 1600 DIMM; another drop of over 99.9 percent since 1997.

392 million dollars per gig to 4 dollars per gig in about 57 years through 2014.


How many decimal points is that? My hand held calculator pukes on that calculation, so it is apparently more than a 99.999999 percent decline.
 
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Right now, I'm looking at a table I found and saved in 2014.

1957; 392 dollars per KILOBYTE; I guess that would be about 392 million dollars per GB....if you could find a machine that would accept a GB. This was "transistor flip flop" memory. 10000 nanoseconds speed.

1977; 575 dollars for 16 KB; that would be about 36 dollars per KB; about 36 million dollars per GB; prices dropped over 90 percent in 20 years. S-100 16K

1997; 37 dollars for 8 MEGABYTES; that's near 4625 per GB; a decline of over 99.9 percent since 1977. 2Mx32-60 SIMM EDO [72 pin].

2014; about 4 dollars per GB at Newegg; 4 GB DDR3 1600 DIMM; another drop of over 99.9 percent since 1997.

392 million dollars per gig to 4 dollars per gig in about 57 years through 2014.
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And now if you multiply 4 dollars compared to 392million dollars by the amount of pc's that will require at least a GB you see that there is still money to be had.. even if the decline seems so drastic on paper, well a screen in this case.
 
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USAFRet said:
Well, if you want to go back in the past...$100 per megabyte.
Meaning a 16GB stick have been $1,600,000
(of course, that did not exist at the time)

But in the context of DDR3 as mentioned above, 2x 4GB (8GB) DDR3 in 2014 was around $65.
About the same price as 32GB DDR4 today.
1/4 the price.
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true, and that's not accounting to inflation I assume?
 
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