Is it worth if I upgrade my RAM?

[napster007]

My Laptop Specs :-

 

• CPU - 2.3GHz AMD A10-9600P processor
• RAM - 4GB DDR4 RAM
• HDD - 1TB 5400rpm Serial ATA hard drive
• GPU - AMD Radeon R7 M440 2GB Graphics
• OS - Windows 10 Pro

I was planning on upgrading my RAM to a total of 8GB. YouTube and many other similar "heavy" websites lags a lot in Edge, Chrome and Firefox as well. Will my CPU create a bottleneck for my upgrade? Apart from this, I usually run Jupyter notebooks and PyCharm for coding. Also I don't play heavy games, I just want to get rid of the slowness while browsing.

 

Thanks

[bleedblue]

For gaming or general usage?

[napster007]

2 minutes ago, bleedblue said:

For gaming or general usage?

Sorry, somehow the topic got posted incomplete. Post has been updated. 

 

Yes, for general usage, surfing and coding.

[Lemtea]

17 minutes ago, napster007 said:

My Laptop Specs :-

 

• CPU - 2.3GHz AMD A10-9600P processor
• RAM - 4GB DDR4 RAM
• HDD - 1TB 5400rpm Serial ATA hard drive
• GPU - AMD Radeon R7 M440 2GB Graphics
• OS - Windows 10 Pro

I was planning on upgrading my RAM to a total of 8GB. YouTube and many other similar "heavy" websites lags a lot in Edge, Chrome and Firefox as well. Will my CPU create a bottleneck for my upgrade? Apart from this, I usually run Jupyter notebooks and PyCharm for coding. Also I don't play heavy games, I just want to get rid of the slowness while browsing.

 

Thanks

Have a look at your ram usage while doing your normal tasks on your PC, if the usage is very high then it probably will be a good idea to upgrade your ram. 

[martward]

I think getting a SSD would be a more significant upgrade. But try to monitor memory usage when using Pycharm since I've heard it can use quite a lot of RAM (never noticed since I have 16GB though).

[bleedblue]

23 minutes ago, napster007 said:

 

For coding, definitely.

[voiha]

Your "slowness" comes from lack of SSD speeds so a decent SSD would boost your launching/loading times immensely. If you pair it with another 4GB of RAM it would give it another boost, but that's would be it, after that a new CPU would be needed if you need even quicker response.

[napster007]

1 hour ago, voiha said:

Your "slowness" comes from lack of SSD speeds so a decent SSD would boost your launching/loading times immensely. If you pair it with another 4GB of RAM it would give it another boost, but that's would be it, after that a new CPU would be needed if you need even quicker response.

Yep, I agree as the CPU is now outdated. Just a few months remaining for my college to finish, once I get a job, I will buy what's best. Anyways, I didn't think about an SSD upgrade, I have a DVR RW maybe I can remove that and install an SSD. Thanks for your input, I will consider this before my purchase.

1 hour ago, Lemtea said:

Have a look at your ram usage while doing your normal tasks on your PC, if the usage is very high then it probably will be a good idea to upgrade your ram. 

Just a few tabs on any browser takes the usage as high as 3GB+ which means remaining RAM drops down to 900MB's or so and sometimes even lower.

1 hour ago, bleedblue said:

For coding, definitely.

Noted. Thanks for your input.