More ram or naw?

[OnionRings]

20 hours ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

Open the Resource Monitor, go to the RAM tab and follow the "hard fault/second" indicator. You can't really have constant zero hard faults in Windows, but you should see some scattered, small peaks only. If you see more like a constant high level, your PC is "paging" too much, and more RAM will alleviate it. 

 

 

Monitor these things while gaming, and also monitor CPU and GPU usage, as well as temperatures, so you can check what's behind the stutters, if any. 

Will do this, thanks.

[OnionRings]

20 hours ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

Open the Resource Monitor, go to the RAM tab and follow the "hard fault/second" indicator. You can't really have constant zero hard faults in Windows, but you should see some scattered, small peaks only. If you see more like a constant high level, your PC is "paging" too much, and more RAM will alleviate it. 

 

 

Monitor these things while gaming, and also monitor CPU and GPU usage, as well as temperatures, so you can check what's behind the stutters, if any. 

Ohhh yea, while recording, I definitely need some more ram. http://prntscr.com/fibsvc

[OnionRings]

The spikes calmed down a bit after the game loaded, but I still only have like 1-10MB of ram free.

[SpaceGhostC2C]

1 minute ago, OnionRings said:

The spikes calmed down a bit after the game loaded, but I still only have like 1-10MB of ram free.

That sounds like you could use a bit more. Especially if experience stuttering coinciding with hard fault spikes (I guess you would need to alt+tab quickly after a stutter episode while the monitor is on). But Windows starts paging earlier than 100% usage, so if there's just 10MB left...

 

(I must clarify that hard faults may occur even if you have enough available RAM, as Windows may have paged the necessary data some time ago, and now needs to load it back into RAM. In that case, you could experience some temporary performance issues, but they should quickly go away and hard faults should not reappear if you continue doing the same task).

[OnionRings]

Just now, SpaceGhostC2C said:

That sounds like you could use a bit more. Especially if experience stuttering coinciding with hard fault spikes (I guess you would need to alt+tab quickly after a stutter episode while the monitor is on). But Windows starts paging earlier than 100% usage, so if there's just 10MB left...

 

(I must clarify that hard faults may occur even if you have enough available RAM, as Windows may have paged the necessary data some time ago, and now needs to load it back into RAM. In that case, you could experience some temporary performance issues, but they should quickly go away and hard faults should not reappear if you continue doing the same task).

All I know is (you can see my specs in my signature) that I have a pretty good computer but I still get some odd stutters in my game, and when I check my temps and stuff, nothing is overheated, nothing is at 100% usage, my i7 since I got it hasn't gone above 70% while gaming and streaming/recording, my GPU is weird this thing fluctuates between 1-99% no idea why but I still get good average FPS, but every so often there are just pesky stutters. Everyone I ask usually says it's my RAM.

[SpaceGhostC2C]

1 minute ago, OnionRings said:

All I know is (you can see my specs in my signature) that I have a pretty good computer but I still get some odd stutters in my game, and when I check my temps and stuff, nothing is overheated, nothing is at 100% usage, my i7 since I got it hasn't gone above 70% while gaming and streaming/recording, my GPU is weird this thing fluctuates between 1-99% no idea why but I still get good average FPS, but every so often there are just pesky stutters. Everyone I ask usually says it's my RAM.

Sounds like they are probably right to me  

[OnionRings]

Just now, SpaceGhostC2C said:

Sounds like they are probably right to me  

Alright, then I'll get more ram... I wouldn't even hesitate this much if it wasn't so gosh darned expensive, I would have got more ages ago, but 55$ for 8GB just seems too high.