Editor's Note: An update to this article has been posted here. Intel Skylake processors will be about 18 months old when they are replaced early next year with 'Kaby Lake' parts. AMD is also expected to finally unleash their Zen CPU , and with that we expect many of you will be looking into these new platforms for possible upgrades. Although memory prices remain competitive read: cheap , there's been a slight surge in pricing during the past few months.
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However, if you're making an effort to get the most bang for your buck by opting for parts such as a Core i3 processor and perhaps a GTX , then you'll really want to know if that extra 8GB of memory is actually going to benefit you. Keep in mind there is little point in "future-proofing" your system with extra memory now as adding more down the track is always a more economical option, provided you have the empty DIMM slots.
The last time I really bothered to compare memory capacities was in when DDR2 was all the rage. Today's modern games and many productivity applications can consume upwards of 4GB, so there's little argument for not going with 8GB. However, the need for 16GB of memory remains a hotly debated subject, so today we are going see if and where this much memory might be useful for desktop users.
Application Performance After spending a few hours going through several popular applications and workloads, it was difficult to find any commonly used program that required 4GB or more system memory on its own. Once you have 'enough' memory for all your applications to run, having more memory won't increase performance any further. And in this case, what that means is that for regular desktop work, you'll be hard pressed to find any tangible performance difference between 8GB and 16GB of system memory.
Among the programs that we tested, Adobe Premier CC proved to be very demanding as showcased below:. Our custom workload features a 17 minute video made up of dozens of small clips, images and audio tracks. To maximize system memory usage we turned the bitrate right down and this saw a total system memory usage of 12GB when encoding. New posts New profile posts Latest activity. Current visitors New profile posts Search profile posts Billboard Trophies. Windows 7 64 bit 4GB vs. Forums Hardware Memory.
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Previous Next Sort by votes. May 6, 80 1 18, 0. I have Windows 7 on pre-order. My question is, will there be a noticeable difference in performance when I install Windows 7 bit if I get an additional 4GB of memory?
I play older computer games, do internet tasks, have music streaming in the background, etc. Thanks for any opinions. Scotteq Splendid. Aug 7, 3, 0 23, Carson Distinguished. Mar 5, 57 0 18, 0. It would be hard to say that XP32 is just as fast—but it would also be hard to say that XP64 is truly faster.
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