ram Ram performance

[godjhinla]

Hello,so i have a rog strix laptop with Gtx 1650ti 4GB,8GB of RAM,and im trying to play lost ark.Im getting good frames but i noticed that my ram pushes up to 95% of usage.Is that considered very bad?I will upgrade my ram soon but for the meanwhile,i wanna know if it will kill my pc.Thank you in advance!

[connorkincaid]

4 minutes ago, godjhinla said:

Hello,so i have a rog strix laptop with Gtx 1650ti 4GB,8GB of RAM,and im trying to play lost ark.Im getting good frames but i noticed that my ram pushes up to 95% of usage.Is that considered very bad?I will upgrade my ram soon but for the meanwhile,i wanna know if it will kill my pc.Thank you in advance!

It will not kill your PC. With only 8GB of RAM, you're pushing the edge of it's capabilities, at least in terms of modern gaming. More and more games are going to start "requiring" more than 8GB of RAM. 

 

No worries on its usage, you should be fine. 

[Kronion]

It won't kill your PC, just slow it down considerably if the RAM is full. The OS then simply starts dumping stuff on the hard disk, which is very slow compared to RAM even if it's an SSD.

 

As an intermediate solution you can try to quit everything else during gaming (especially browsers). That might help a little, but ultimately you should indeed go for 16 GB of RAM. That's pretty much the standard for modern games now.

[godjhinla]

20 minutes ago, Kronion said:

It won't kill your PC, just slow it down considerably if the RAM is full. The OS then simply starts dumping stuff on the hard disk, which is very slow compared to RAM even if it's an SSD.

 

As an intermediate solution you can try to quit everything else during gaming (especially browsers). That might help a little, but ultimately you should indeed go for 16 GB of RAM. That's pretty much the standard for modern games now.

20 minutes ago, Kronion said:

It won't kill your PC, just slow it down considerably if the RAM is full. The OS then simply starts dumping stuff on the hard disk, which is very slow compared to RAM even if it's an SSD.

 

As an intermediate solution you can try to quit everything else during gaming (especially browsers). That might help a little, but ultimately you should indeed go for 16 GB of RAM. That's pretty much the standard for modern games now.

So can i keep playing for now with 95% usage untill I upgrade?And are rog strix laptops ram upgradable??

[Kronion]

1 minute ago, godjhinla said:

So can i keep playing for now with 95% usage untill I upgrade?

Yes.

 

3 minutes ago, godjhinla said:

And are rog strix laptops ram upgradable??

Probably. If ASUS didn't start doing BS like soldering RAM sticks to the board, it should be. Without knowing the specific model, I can't answer that for sure. You can check this out:

https://rog.asus.com/articles/guides/how-to-upgrade-the-ram-and-ssd-of-your-rog-strix-laptop/

[IPD]

It WILL start wearing down your SSD faster though.  Not markedly so, but those read/write cycles will keep going in the background as your PC creates vRAM to compensate for the lack of RAM.  I don't think anyone's done a longevity study on this phenomena though.