You can’t install an odd number of sticks So, if you Installed one stick with 1600Mhz and other with 2400Mhz, the latter will work on 1600Mhz, thus lowering its efficiency.Ĥ.
If you use your computer only for internet browsing and working with documents (MS Office, for example), the minimum required amount for Win 10 users will be 4Gb, but it’s better to have 8Gb - because modern browsers can be quite hungry for RAM (hello, Chrome), and Windows uses some amount as well.
So how much RAM do you actually need? It totally depends on what you do on your PC and what apps you use.
So theoretically, increasing RAM size can benefit performance. So, if you have 4Gb RAM, and some app’s max usage is 10%, it can use up to ~410Mb, and if you have 8Gb, this will double the amount of memory available for an app - up to 820Mb. Every app has a minimum amount of RAM it needs to function, but what about the maximum? Quite often, maximum amount of RAM needed for a certain app is not expressed in mega/gigabytes, but rather in % of total RAM available. There’s an oversimplified example that everyone can understand. And we’re not talking about whether you have enough RAM for the next 10 years, but about this very moment. When asked about this, he replied, that “no one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.” And this, in fact, is very true.
“My RAM is never full, so I don’t need more ram”Īs Bill Gates allegedly said (though he denies it, quote still floats around like a rumor), “ 640K is more memory than anyone will ever need”. Now that we’ve covered the basics (I assume you already knew all this, but just to be sure…), let’s get onto the myths about RAM.
It’s kind of like our short-term memory: it temporarily stores some information that your PC/Console/Phone needs right now or thinks will need soon, so it can access that data at an instant, rather than searching for it on your HDD. RAM, or random-access memory, is a kind of computer data storage, but it’s quite different from hard disks or DVD.