Update RAM Yes or No?

TomBrad95 · June 17, 2017

I've got 8GB of DDR4 RAM on my PC, when idle i.e. just after startup with task manager open, I'm using around 3GB of RAM. When I start doing more intensive stuff, such as watch YouTube it jumps to about half. I haven't checked it when playing games.

genexis_x · June 17, 2017

Disable startup and background programs. Clean install Windows if you want. 8GB should be no problem for most cases.

Zonther · June 17, 2017

30 minutes ago, ZM Fong said:

Disable startup and background programs. Clean install Windows if you want. 8GB should be no problem for most cases.

Agrred. To me now days 8GB is the minium. And 16GB is recommended. I was able to survive on 4GB of RAM simply by not installing any start up programs that consumes memory and watch how many programs I run. I noticed Firefox doesn't utilize as much memory as Chrome. You can try that to see if it helps in any way. Windows 10 does a decent job utilizing system memory.