06-04-2019, 03:24 AM
(06-04-2019, 02:34 AM)Davdo Wrote: Any more details other than its $50? Like brand and stuff?
Assuming that task manager is more accurate than speccy, it seems that your RAM speed is fine then.
8 GB of RAM however is on the low side for gaming, if you've been installing more programs in the past two weeks, they may be eating up your RAM now which would explain the sudden degradation in performance.
I noticed a considerable performance improvement when I upgraded to 16 (I donated 8GB of mine originally to a different PC, so I was down 8GB for a while).
Whenever you start a game now, windows is probably dumping a lot of your RAM into a paging file (Virtual RAM on your hard drive or SSD, this is considerably slower but still does the same thing as actual RAM) so it would definitely be a performance impact.
I would definitely say this and as well if he uses chrome, that would do a lot to slow down your computer. Though being told it is just $50 for the RAM doesn't say much to address the problem.
Is it DDR3, DDR4? Do you know the memory speeds?
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