now i've done a lot of googling into this, but i can't really find an exact answer, since the majority of them are like those "yeah, it's good but then there's also this(insert further explanation here)"
taht besides the point, during the times that I'm not gaming which is usually on the weekdays, i use my laptop mainly for work and things like that. so just think of it, a teenager's laptop for homework, word processing, and photo editing in a few applications (technology class ya know). things get a little cluttered. in fact, i actually have 28 applications open, like gimp, skype, steam, browses, pdf readers and things like that. this somewhat cruddy laptop only has 4gb of ram, and when i tried a ram upgrade of 8gb it failed horribly since i couldn't get the case open. now to get down to the main point of this thread. in task manager, it's saying that my memory is around 85-90% used by all my processes and applications. although I still haven't gotten any message baloon in the corner saying that the machine is increasing the virtual memory paging file, I'm wondering if it'll be any good if i just go on ahead and increase it myself. I've heard that increasing your virtual memory can slow down your computer, since it has to process that paging file stored on your hard disk, but i'm not that entirely sure if that's realy the case. i currently have 2160 MB allocated to virtual memory, and i'm just wondering if that's enough or if i should add more, since i have almost a quarter of a tarabyte left in means of storage. any help on this topic would be very helpful, since i'm not that sure on how affective virtual memory is or if i should just keep it as is or what else i should do.
taht besides the point, during the times that I'm not gaming which is usually on the weekdays, i use my laptop mainly for work and things like that. so just think of it, a teenager's laptop for homework, word processing, and photo editing in a few applications (technology class ya know). things get a little cluttered. in fact, i actually have 28 applications open, like gimp, skype, steam, browses, pdf readers and things like that. this somewhat cruddy laptop only has 4gb of ram, and when i tried a ram upgrade of 8gb it failed horribly since i couldn't get the case open. now to get down to the main point of this thread. in task manager, it's saying that my memory is around 85-90% used by all my processes and applications. although I still haven't gotten any message baloon in the corner saying that the machine is increasing the virtual memory paging file, I'm wondering if it'll be any good if i just go on ahead and increase it myself. I've heard that increasing your virtual memory can slow down your computer, since it has to process that paging file stored on your hard disk, but i'm not that entirely sure if that's realy the case. i currently have 2160 MB allocated to virtual memory, and i'm just wondering if that's enough or if i should add more, since i have almost a quarter of a tarabyte left in means of storage. any help on this topic would be very helpful, since i'm not that sure on how affective virtual memory is or if i should just keep it as is or what else i should do.
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