Is it worthing upgrading from 6BG to 8GB?

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skyvolt

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I've seen some discussion here about if it is worthing or not. I have an Acer Aspire V3-571g-9686 that came with 6GB of RAM. Both are CL9 1.5v. One piece is from Kingston and the other id from A-Data.

The configuration is:
i7 3632QM 2.2GHz Turbo Boost to 3.2GHz
Nvidia GeForce 640M with 2GB dedicated vram.
6GB RAM

For gaming is it worthing an upgrade to 8GB (the maximum allowed)?

Here in my country the price is not quite cheap as is in the USA.

Thank you.
 
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skit75
No, not really. I run BF4 just fine with 6GB of RAM with nearly 1GB of overhead to spare. I rarely see my RAM usage go over 5GB in anything I am doing and I monitor my usage with another monitor so I see it in real time, all the time.

BF4 is one of the few games I can see my system RAM reach 5GB of usage. Moving to 8GB won't give you any performance increase unless your PC is loaded down with a ton of useless programs running in the background.

I'm usually running the game (BF4 + Origin) on Primary monitor with the following applications running :

Task Manager - Performance Tab open on 2nd monitor
HWMonitor - open on 2nd monitor (to monitor my temps)
Ventrillo Server - open on 2nd monitor(hosting 3-4 connections)
Ventrillo...
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Nice Double Dragon Avatar.

This laptop normally comes with 6GB (and the two modules you listed are from two different manufacturers, which i doubt ACER would do on a new machine. Was this a refurbished? or Used purchased?). Now 6GB to 8GB will barely see any difference in gaming (lucky if you'll squeeze 2-4 frames at all).

Save your $$ (which would look like a $85+ for 2x 4GB) for the next upgrade (SSD) or laptop.

Best Luck
 
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skit75

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No, not really. I run BF4 just fine with 6GB of RAM with nearly 1GB of overhead to spare. I rarely see my RAM usage go over 5GB in anything I am doing and I monitor my usage with another monitor so I see it in real time, all the time.

BF4 is one of the few games I can see my system RAM reach 5GB of usage. Moving to 8GB won't give you any performance increase unless your PC is loaded down with a ton of useless programs running in the background.

I'm usually running the game (BF4 + Origin) on Primary monitor with the following applications running :

Task Manager - Performance Tab open on 2nd monitor
HWMonitor - open on 2nd monitor (to monitor my temps)
Ventrillo Server - open on 2nd monitor(hosting 3-4 connections)
Ventrillo client - open on 2nd monitor

I rarely see System RAM go over 5GB.
 
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Thank you all for the answers. They helped me a lot and saved some $$.

I bought this laptop about 1 yr and half ago and was sold as new at B&H, not refurbished nor used. I don't know the reasons for Acer has used two different brands for memory.
 
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