effects of increasing RAM size

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papercut03

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hi just a noob question. I know that increasing ram size will not increase my FPS. but will it increase my game loading time or the delay that my computer has when booting up? THANKS in advance. sorry for the stupid question
 
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expl0itfinder

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Not really. Where you will see performance is when you have multiple programs. Say rendering a video while surfing the web. 4 gigabytes would make your system feel very sluggish, as opposed to 8, where your system would have some room to breathe. Now that may not be the exact scenario you find yourself in, but it would be the same basic concept. Anytime you are multitasking, extra ram comes in handy. 8 gigabytes is pretty much the sweetspot right now.
 
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Tradesman1

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Might speed it up a bit, but another idea here, What CPU a 2 Core, a 4 Core, what? To speed up your boot process I suggest getting a utility valled WinPatrol, it let's you look at what all is in the startup and unneeded thing like Adobe programs that load snippets of code at startup and just take up DRAM can be disabled, then if you ever decide you need them you can re-enable them....another one, if you have a multi core CPU is to go into MSCONFIG (go to start, type MSCONFIG in the search box, hit enter, then when the window comes up click on the boot tab, click on Advanced and in the upper left is a box, check it and select the highest numeber in the pane which should match up to the number of cores in your CPU save this and close and reboot, should see an increase in booting into Win....By default Win only boots off a single core, doing this allows all cores to get involved in starting things up
 
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expl0itfinder

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You will see better loading times from an ssd, or maybe faster ram, but not more of it. (unless your system is being bottlenecked by a lack of ram already)
 
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hang-the-9

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If you want to increase load times for programs and boot, get the fasterst hard drive you can (SSD would be best). RAM would increase things a bit, up to a point, if you went from 1gb to 2 or from 2 to 4 for example, but a lot less than a faster hard drive.
 
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