Windows 7 Will 8GB of RAM speed up your system?

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Memory manufacturer Corsair researched what are the advantages of having more than 4GB of RAM. In the analysis titled “Doing More With More Memoryâ€Â￾ company showed benefits of having 8GB over 4GB of RAM. They conducted a test with Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P motherboard, a 2.6 GHz Phenom II X3 710 CPU, a P256 solid state drive, a GeForce GTX 280 graphics card, a HX1000W power supply, and running Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit. Crysis,Warhead and other benchmarks showed superiority of system with 8GB of DDR3 RAM.

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Tepid and BigDav are spot-on

You only need however much ram is necessary to "hold" whatever applications and documents you have working. That may be 1 GB or it may be 12 GB. (Well, 1 GB may be skimping even for someone like me who doesn't "tab"and doesn't "multitask") The amount of RAM that one needs depends on whether they have multiple applications open and have many documents open or "working" at any given time. If your RAM capacity is not exceeded such that it is frequently swapping files back and forth between RAM and swap files it has had to place on the harddrive, you would not benefit from additional RAM. If one wishes to make a significant increase in computer speed in this situation, their money would be better spent on...
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It would if you are useing the 64bit ver of 7, otherwise you have to deal with whatever system cap you have. you have to be running windows 7 64bit to be able to utilize anything higher than 3 to for gb of ram.
 
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Statisticly speaking, only about 40 to 45% of users are using 64bit software, and useually are the ones running graphicly intensive software or games. Infact most software programmers use the 32bit versions.
 
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i hear on the grape vine that MS are testing 128bit code dunno what version of windows its going to be probably one of those stupidly fast multi petabyte proccessing super computer OS's you all know the type i'm talking about 5000 cpu's 500GB ram 20~100 terabytes of HDD's the sorta thing if Crysis ran on it you'd 50,000fps or something silly like that ,
so im thinking well 4GB of ram is rather mandatory for 64 bit OS's ( although they say 2GB) cough"chug chug"cough so if we are going that way i can see 8+ GB of ram fast becomming a reality with more and more 64bit apps and games and we all know ssd's aren't as fast as accessing data from ram so the more the merrier i say, atleast I'll be going upto 4gb when i get my copy of win7 64bit 2's ok for now with just a 32bit system but evan that can start to chug sometimes
 
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mattradetski said:
It would if you are useing the 64bit ver of 7, otherwise you have to deal with whatever system cap you have. you have to be running windows 7 64bit to be able to utilize anything higher than 3 to for gb of ram.
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You also have to be using the 64 bit of Vista to be able to use all your memory
 
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