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What would be the symptoms of not having enough ram while playing?

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well, i experience some delay when alt tabing between chrome and dota 2. switching from chrome and dota 2 usually takes up to 30sec- 1min. also even after closing dota 2 , some of my programs become unresponsive like the steam app and chrome. after closing dota 2 makes my computer super slow. it will recover after like 1 minute.

 

is my ram just bad? or it is my HDD. i use 4gb ram btw

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well, i experience some delay when alt tabing between chrome and dota 2. switching from chrome and dota 2 usually takes up to 30sec- 1min. also even after closing dota 2 , some of my programs become unresponsive like the steam app and chrome. after closing dota 2 makes my computer super slow. it will recover after like 1 minute.

 

is my ram just bad? or it is my HDD. i use 4gb ram btw

This bitch will usually come up

 

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Weird sluggishness and jitters, but most importantly, you'd see 100% (or next to) ram usage in the resource monitor. Check that.

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What is your RAM usage in Task Manager? 

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You dont need to know any symptoms. Just look at the ram usage in task manager...

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Chrome is a resource hog. I usually shut it down when I am going to play something + All of the above

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here

 

 

http://imgur.com/GeICLG5 - when having dota 2 ingame + chrome

http://imgur.com/0aKKxcs - when having chrome only

 

 

Yeah look at your RAM usage. clearly you are running out of RAM. The general slowness is down to your computer using your page file (stored on the HDD) as sort of virtual RAM but MUUUUUCH slower!.

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Yeah look at your RAM usage. clearly you are running out of RAM. The general slowness is down to your computer using your page file (stored on the HDD) as sort of virtual RAM but MUUUUUCH slower!.

would upgrading to 8gb of ram will solve this problem?

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would upgrading to 8gb of ram will solve this problem?

 

 Sure would :)

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 Sure would :)

 

wow, good thing i ask first before buying. i want to buy a  sshd for my laptop but i am really tight on my budget. hope that my lack of ram is causing my laptop to be slow

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wow, good thing i ask first before buying. i want to buy a  sshd for my laptop but i am really tight on my budget. hope that my lack of ram is causing my laptop to be slow

 

Im 100% sure thats your issue. Seems that you are using 97% of it.

 

SSHD's are not a bad idea either and will further speed things up :P

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Im 100% sure thats your issue. Seems that you are using 97% of it.

 

SSHD's are not a bad idea either and will further speed things up :P

next time if i have my budget :) ill reformat my computer just to make sure :) oh yeah. can i ask one more? how do you know what type of ram would be compatible in my laptop?

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next time if i have my budget :) ill reformat my computer just to make sure :) oh yeah. can i ask one more? how do you know what type of ram would be compatible in my laptop?

 

take the back off the laptop and read the label. Then do a good search on it :D.... Doesn't have to be the exact same RAM manufacturer just the same speed.

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