I was wondering if more RAM would increase performance in my laptop. It has Intel HD Graphics and 6GB of RAM already installed. If I were to upgrade it to 8GB, would it affect gaming performance?
I doubt it. At least not by much.
No games are going to use more than 2-3gb by itself.
You might check to see how much system ram is dedicated to the graphics adapter. Increasing video ram might help.
More RAM means more data can be cached on the RAM, which means that it will be read from the RAM instead of the HDD. RAM is magnitudes faster than HDD.
I doubt it. At least not by much.
No games are going to use more than 2-3gb by itself.
You might check to see how much system ram is dedicated to the graphics adapter. Increasing video ram might help.
In the bios, there will be an option to select the amount of system ram that is dedicated to the video adapter.
The default may be small. I might pick 1gb
On some pre built pc's the bios options are very limited.