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

[eh936]

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

 

[iTRiP]

Right.
Literally, the price I paid for 2x 4GB G.Skill DDR3 in Nov 2014, and what 2x 16GB DDR4 might cost today.

It's a funny fact but, looking at upgrading ram here, they are still asking the same price today as what I would had paid when I bought the ram I got now, inflation?

And here I thought demand would put prices up, or down.

 

[madaraosenpai]

And here I thought demand would put prices up, or down.

We're talking about price to performance ratio in an industry where half the point of it still existing is to make things cheaper and more efficient on a yearly basis. Demand will almost always go DOWN because hardware only becomes less useful as better things replace it.

The demand for existing parts or devices will stagnate as more people are able to afford them, and eventually once they become completely obsoleted, it will drop off like a busted airplane. There is a reason most older systems are worth a fraction of their MSRP on ecommerce sites. Unless you are talking about a rare enthusiast part, then the demand will never increase and therefore the price will not go up either.

It's like if I expected the Fat Free Milk in my fridge to be resellable 10 years from now. That milk is going to be rotten in 10 years. Nobody is going to be able to safely drink it. Only a nerd would buy it for some strange, silly reason.

Unsurprisingly, old sticks of RAM are not very exciting or remarkable and most normal people are not buying them anymore. That DDR3 RAM has gotten cheaper because the only people buying it are people who already have older computers, either they can't afford a new one or they're retro enthusiasts. Technologies that are still relevant like DDR4 are getting cheaper to manufacture, and companies want to sell as many of their stock as possible before they eventually discontinue them.

 

[Satan-IR]

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

No it won't. Unless you open 6 apps and two browers each with 50 open tabs concurrently.

I would get a good quality SSD instead. Windows would load up in a fraction of the times it used to take on that HDD. Same goes for any app load time that you install on the SSD. You can use it later when you get a new PC.

Most probably what I said was already mentioned above but didn't have time to read them all.