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Hi community,
Noob question:
Currently CPU I have is a i5-4460 and have a ram of 4GB.
Is the ram bottlenecking my overall pc performance?
 
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It depends on what you do with your pc, how much you have open at once etc. It can be yes. Right now I'm running an i5 with 8gb of ram, I have 2 chrome windows open with 31 tabs between the 2 windows, notepad, calculator, realtemp, task manager and a chat messenger open. Nothing overly tasking, no big applications just a bunch of little stuff open. My ram usage is at 5.29gb out of 8gb. If I only had 4gb it would be using the swap file heavily on the hard drive causing slower overall performance (sluggishness).

Try opening task manager and look at your system performance to see how much ram you're using. If it's close to 3.5gb or more a lot of the time you could use more ram.
It depends on what you do with your pc, how much you have open at once etc. It can be yes. Right now I'm running an i5 with 8gb of ram, I have 2 chrome windows open with 31 tabs between the 2 windows, notepad, calculator, realtemp, task manager and a chat messenger open. Nothing overly tasking, no big applications just a bunch of little stuff open. My ram usage is at 5.29gb out of 8gb. If I only had 4gb it would be using the swap file heavily on the hard drive causing slower overall performance (sluggishness).

Try opening task manager and look at your system performance to see how much ram you're using. If it's close to 3.5gb or more a lot of the time you could use more ram.
 
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Basically running Heroes of the Storm while downloading another game and playing YT videos(for songs) already takes up 3.52GB of ram, and can already feel the lag while I play heroes of the storm.