You don't buy memory to speed-up the computer itself, but it allow the speed to be fully utilized by more processes. You buy more memory to facilitate multi-processes workflows with many applications open, such as multimedia creation for example. RAM makes a big difference when you have a single computer and need to use it while rendering a big project in the background, for example. If you game only, more memory is completely useless, as you only have one app open at a time!

I didn't really see anything below about this. Adding more ram to your computer sort of depends on computer configuration, with a single stick of ram is going to be running in single channel mode. You always want to have your ram installed in pairs. So if you have 8 gigs of RAM you want that to be dual 4 Gig RAM modules, 16 Gigs of RAM you want dual 8 gig ram modules etc. Running your computer on a single stick of RAM means that the ram controller is only running with half the bandwidth. So, you are leaving some performance on the table when you really don't have to? Just try to have at least two ram sticks in your system.

All systems have a bottleneck, to make a PC faster, you speed up the bottleneck. The only exception is the video card or peripherals, which can be sped up individually. To check for a bottlenecks use the command prompt and run winsat formal.

Going from rotary to SSD hard drives was the best bang for buck speed up when I upgraded all my old PCs, they already had enough ram. Windows Explorer still causes grief when I have lots of applications open.

The best increase in speed for me came when I changed out my old hard drive for an SSD drive. And it was a fairly inexpensive upgrade which also provided a greater storage capacity.

Many Thanks . You are a STAR. My PC has being doing funny things now lately . I will see if this can solve the problem

lovely video, thank you so much. Please keep doing videos like that

Love the emphasis on matching speeds with motherboard choice. Pairing there is key and as mentioned below of course it is better to run 2 sticks of RAM together. Putting more focus on the motherboard speeds available and if that may be the area that needs the speed increase rather than just throwing more RAM in the metal box is refreshing to see being brought to light. Keep putting info out there!

Liron you are probably the person who supplies the most logical - close to computer for dummies - advice. I think you one of the best our there as you make idiots like me feel intelligent as I understand so much more after watching your videos.

Great video and great advice! Thank you from South Africa 🇿🇦

Nicely said. Clearly demonstrated. I am guilty of "wishing" that I could speed up my laptop with more RAM. I have an Acer Aspire 5, i-5. It came with 8 GB RAM, I upgraded to 12 GB. (Then to 20 GB RAM.) Task- Manager said I was only using 40% of my RAM with 12 GB. But with 20 GB of RAM, I am only using 25% of my System Resources. Cheers!

I do 3D 'art' stuff and video editing. My 64GB Ram usually is about 31% use all the time. And when using Adobe products I am usually at 60% use, and I've gotten it to 80% at times. Although if I didn't use heavy programs like that I'd not need anything like I do for video editing. I can see me putting my next system tougher with 128 GB in a few years when I build a new system to replace my 5950x 16 core system.

Interesting video! I've always heard the debate about whether adding more RAM actually improves computer speed. It's fascinating to see you tackle this topic and provide insights. I appreciate the explanation and the debunking of the myth. Keep up the great work!

Love the way you explained everything in detail in a short video. Thanks for helping.

More often than not, the RAM currently installed does not run at it's correct speed, as it defaults to a standard/lower (safe) speed. As where configuring RAM correctly when possible, does make a difference, in some cases drastic, and others, minimal, but still a speed increase. Another factor especially if/when using SSD M.2 or even standard SATA, manually setting the page file to a faster drive, can make a difference when maxing out available RAM. Vitual Memory = Page File (utilizes space on drive(s)) If/when adding more RAM or replacing current modules (if board/bios supports faster speed/increased capacity) ensuring the bios is configured correctly if possible, (as well as matching sticks of RAM (Speed and capacity) will play a factor.

Excellent video, thank you. I’ve done a few tests on my RAM, and notice that there is such a thing called standby RAM. You can clear this using RAMMAP to free up RAM, but then it fills up again over time. Would you be able to delve a little deeper into how buying more RAM might provide more space for this standby RAM, and would that speed things up? Cheers.

This video was a waste of time. Stop buying more ram? Then proceeded to say 32gig and beyond is perfect. Sincerely,

A side benefit to turning off Windows virtual memory is that it solved the Windows 10 "100% Disk" issue.

Thank you brother ❤

I remember upgrading my old windows 98 PC from 32MB to 512MB and MAN! that was one of the best upgrade I have ever felt I had gotten Value from. The PC ran so much smoother.

Very interesting. It's also important to note that most modern mother boards support dual-channel memory. Dual-channel memory is a technology that uses two memory channels to increase the rate of transfer between your computer's memory and the CPU. In dual-channel mode, two RAM sticks communicate simultaneously on separate channels to operate your computer and run programs significantly faster. What does this mean? If you are going to use 16G of RAM in your system, it is significantly better to use two 8G sticks rather than one 16G stick. This is especially true if you have a Ryzen CPU

Many long years ago, back when I had Win95, P120 and 16Mb ram. It was slow. Then I went out and got another 16Mb ram, £60 it cost. Now with 32Mb, Win95 flows like a wind. I have never seen that performance boots on any PC ever since. How times have changed.

Have been using 16gb last few years with absolutely no issues for daily use of YT, some PUBG. Just purchased an addtitional 16gb. It's nice to treat your computer sometimes.

There are some instances where more RAM will make your computer faster. One of them is when you have too many apps open and it has to save on the hard drive the current app or apps, which slows the computer down, so it's able to open a new one.

Agreed, memory upgrades nowadays are rarely the best choice to improve performance. However, the combination of adding 4 GB of RAM and a SATA SSD to an older PC can breath new life into it for as little as a $150 spend. Of course, installing Linux Lite on that old PC, with no hardware upgrades, can have much the same effect.

Well, here's the thing--it used to be good advice, and still can be. But today, few computers are sold that are starved for RAM. This was not always the case in the past. I used to fix and optimize computers as a hobby (well, still do). It was not uncommon when getting a complaint about a brutally slow system to find one that was RAM starved and swapping everything to the disk drive, which for a spinning disc system is orders of magnitude slower than RAM. Today, with SSDs common, and systems coming with pretty much 8GB of RAM minimum, this almost never happens. Still, if your memory is regularly at 80 to 90% capacity, it is worth either figuring out what is using it all. If those needs are valid, upgrade your RAM. While your SSD is much faster that an old HDD, you don't want to thrash them either.

You could look at your motherboard's QVL, too, to know if the selected RAM stick models are compatible and testested for your motherboard

You are fantastic at informing people in a way us older users can understand x.

"lets open up chrome" The 8gb ram: *90% utilization*

Ram is mostly about allowing efficient speeds while running multiple programs "processes". Run out of ram because you are running tons of processes? Your computer is going to slow down like crazy. A lot of times your speed is being bottlenecked in some way. You have to find out what the weakest link is and upgrade it.

I bought an m2 nvme drive and an pcie x4 adapter and that made a lot of difference, had an ordinary ssd before. Have an old i7 processor with 4ghz clock.

thanks again my friend... just did the ready boost with the usb flash drive of 64 gig and i will see how it works!!

Not so much today, but years ago, memory made a huge difference in speed. It could reduce or eliminate memory swapping when running larger programs, programs that used lots of data from disk that had to be buffered, etc. Most of those days has been designed out of today's computers.

Actually it depends on the situation, because it can actually do that. But primarily for must consumers you need a decent ssd. Alternatively the second you go past 4 Gb of ram Windows does better on memory management (on 64 bit systems)

I work in a school, with 10 - 20 years old computers... Have you ever tryed to use a computer with 2 gigs of ram, with windows 10?

Often MBs support a different max clock speed based on whether you have two or four slots populated. People who want to max it out will have to determine what's more important between what benefits from the higher capacity or what benefits from the higher clock speed.

Very true that if your apps under their most intense processes still shows a lot of unused RAM under Task Manager, then more RAM isn't going to change much of anything about performance other than aftermarket RAM sticks often have slightly better latency timings, and thus are slightly faster than stock RAM sticks.

It would be interesting to hear your opinion on building suitable home pcs used or with used components. I stopped buying new pcs like i don't ever buy new cars. If you're not a gamer at all i think i can chop 2/3 or more off the price vs a new one for my needs. Anyway would be interested to hear your take on that, thanks for such great informative videos!

My work PC was 4Gb RAM running on Windows 7. IT Department upgraded to Windows 10. Instantly a somewhat usable PC became VERY frustrating to use because I have many applications running simultaneously. It is a must, not a privilege to have these open. I upgraded my PC to 16 Gb (maxed it out), and then everyone else I added an 8 Gb stick so they now have 12 Gb. Once booted, it is like Night and Day difference!!!!!!!

Agreed!! Nice info..Love the video😁

Think of Disk Drives as a well and Ram as a Bucket. Bigger Bucket more water transferred from the well at a time. Processor is speed that bucket goes up and down the well

Thanks for this tip. I will now download my ram instead of buying them😊

The first time I have to disagree! Adding more RAM to my Lenovo laptop totally transformed it from being slow and almost unusable (I bought it second-hand off eBay) to the beast it now is.

Nowadays its I/O that is the bottleneck to speed. If you're not running and SSD, then you are not going to get much of a boost in performance. I was blown away when I made the switch from spinning disks to SSD's. AMAZING! Even on older netbooks, it made them come alive.

I have a spare laptop with a celeron n4020, 4gb of ddr3 soldered on ram and 64gb emmc. It is far from great specs, but it barely uses any wattage, can do 4k streaming with just a few frames dropped and it would still have enough headroom to use Open office's suite in the background. It's build quality isnt great being part of the infamous Lenovo IdeaPad series, but I have used it a few times to test what it can do over some years and it is still holding up. It also does seem more responsive running Linux (Windows-Like Elegant distribution called ZorinOS). Not one i would use for gaming, but it still serves its purpose, and for a "used" price of 40 bucks I can't complain. Sorry about this being poorly worded as english isnt my native language.

I doubled my ram from 16-32gb 4x8gb rather than 2x8. It can run 128gb but 32gb if fine for basic editing. Running a Xeon E5 2670V3.. & a quadro.

So Liron, how does one go about reducing all the Windows constant io? It never stops!

depends if you have an intel PC.. you can in essence only upgrade within the same generation or if lucky to the next.. then only ram and new grafics card is an option. having an AMD AM4 it is definitely better to upgrade to a new generation cpu accompanied by by a ramspeed and ramsize upgrade. So depending on your setup, an upgrade of an amd system can be much more uselful.

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I buy ram so I can leave my 100 browser tabs open......

I think you’ve got too many 0’s at 7:38 when discussing Mhz. I’d probably been mentioned but i scrolled down and didn’t see it. Great video anyway!

What you need to know about RAM in a nutshell - The more, the merrier.

Would it be safe to say that adding additional ram to a bogged down system (high memory usage/cpu) would not increase speed but increase system performance? make it smoother in performance? older i5, 8gb ddr3, hdd with many tabs open

So true. For meaningful performance increase, you have to address all of the system bottlenecks. Performance is no greater than your biggest bottleneck will allow. The free version of belarc advisor will tell you everything about your computer resources.

Sound advice. Logical, straight to the point.

Nicely done.

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Thanks Liron

Does this apply to phone's as well?

It pretty much depends on how you use your computer.

There is something like future proofing too, but still depends on what you do. In my case I work for more than 30 years with CAD/Simulation programs and have learned that the best thing is to buy as well specked your computer, or specifically your laptop, as your wallet can handle. It will hold up for much more time and these laptops can be handled down to do office work later on.

It’s quite simple really. Start your computer and then open all of the programs, applications and video games you wish to run simultaneously and then watch memory usage in task manager. If your memory is at e.g. 80% or higher, you need more ram. The main problem the way I see it is that many applications today are extremely poorly optimized, causing them to draw more ram than necessary from your computer. One example is web browser such as Edge. It’s ridiculous how much ram it uses for only having one or two tabs open.

7:33 - 24000 MHz 36000 MHz I want that 😂

Great vid. Leant something new. I never knew this so yh

Will installing Linex Lite also be of any help ?

I used to use the crucial scan tool to help with ram

👍With over 40 years of building pc systems I can thumbs up this guy for keeping things digestible. If YOU are not into the tech side then find someone you can trust for a few 'dollars' to help you out... I was recently asked re 'DO I upgrade my hard drive or increase the ram... ' 🙂It never ceases to amaze me how some want high tech systems with all of the 'bells and whistles' and only ever use it for their media account viewing etc ... Horses as they say for 'courses' 🙂Great entertaining and INFORMATIVE vid as always 👍

I have a bunch of Processes that open on my PC. Is there an easier way to find which ones are necessary and which I can close down,without having to search out the individual process to try to determine if it's needed or not?

ive been wanting to upgrade my ram from 8gb to 16 since that's all my all in once pc can take, sometimes when i use Davinci and try to import videos it takes a while even when i use google chrome to watch youtube the videos lag, iam currently using cape cut which the importing wait and exporting wait is about the same as Davinci, i just hate waiting when i don't have to and i have seen 16 gb of ram on crucial and amazon for around 40 bucks so i wouldn't be spending that much for ram!

I have 12g ddr4 ram Normally I'm using between 8-10 of that Would going to 16 or 32 help? It can get sloggy when I open tons of programs and browsers I5 8 th gen processor no GPU

I always Build my own using 16 Gigs of RAM, but for performance it's everything else in your System like CPU & GPU performance.

OK, I researched and according to what I found the amount of ram that is utilized is limited to the type of Windows system that is on your PC/Laptop is running. They said that the regular Windows that comes with laptops is limited to using 8GB of RAM as its max where as the Windows Pro can utilize more RAM. So I figured I will upgrade to the Windows Pro version to see if the laptop can access the memory above 8GB of RAM. Even with my not so new Toshiba Qosmio Quad-Core i7 gaming computer, it never accessed any memory above 8GB. Everyone of the suggestions on all the Internet and KZfaq has produced nothing. Maybe it is time for a new improved laptop.

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Try rendering texture in solidworks. 16 gb ram equals 7 hours to render. The same system at 128 gb ram 15 seconds. It is very dependent on what your pc is used for.

If you go (mixing up) different ram kits. You can only run your ram at the lowest common clock speed. Or you are not going to POST. ROG motherboards have a button that will do this for you. All easy, peasy. The way I remember it's toward one of the edges, about an inch in. Get in your manual. They call it (mem OK). I've only used it once. so I don't even remember much about it. I buy ram in a KIT anymore. A 4x8 kit is pretty overkill for my needs. But they are all the same clock-speed. So, I tell myself I am "future proofing".

i would like your help please . How can i Safely Transfer Programs from C Drive to D Drive for Free ? Could you please make a video showing me ? Is there a program that does this ? please advice !

Doubled my memory for $20. Doesn't always have to be a lot of money! (I went from 8gb of DDR4 to 16gb of DDR4)

With mentioning. Adding more RAM consistently works when they have only one stick in a dual channel capable system.

Increasing my legacy pc to ram that was higher but ALSO faster speed did make it way faster

does it make a difference if you open several windows playing the same game on different characters?

If you have the minimum required RAM for your O.S. (e.g. Windows 11), then getting additional RAM will help. The reason for this is because the O.S. uses more of the hard drive as RAM to keep the system running, sloooooowing it way down. Above that, it's only for intensive use like video editing or full AAA gaming.

if you have 4 gigs or less of ram then yes buying ram might improve performance. a ssd or nvme with also help significantly. cooling is another thing to look into.

Basically not enough ram is a part usaly the most common part of the slow pc problem , cpu speed is a second on and gpu is the 3rd . 4th is disk drive speed / ssd read write speed

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It depends on what they are doing. If they are gaming, 16gb should be minimum on 10 and especially on 11.

I can tell you, it made a huge difference when I started. Being able to create a ramdisk, and load a floppy into it, man, the speed difference was enormous! I often want to use more RAM for games like fallout 4 but they really don't like it. You get all sorts of weird problems. It's a shame because being able to load more cells would make life so much easier, but it really is not well optimised. I think it was fallout 3 that used to crash because it would load cells into RAM and then sometimes forget to get rid of them. Programs like Blender and video editing generally do make use of it and it is a big deal. Then you have to worry about what the motherboard supports. This laptop is reasonably new but I think the manufacturer said it was limited to 32 gig, which seems odd. In mainframes, I had a friend who told me about how they had to *reduce* the RAM to speed up the computer as it was spending too much time managing memory. That sounded like a horror story to me, like having to remove toes to run faster.

Honestly, if you're working on graphics intensive PowerPoint slides, 8gb of ram is not enough. You will have trouble even clicking undo buttom. Adding to that, 8gb ram is just enough to run word with a few chrome tabs opened, if you're doing some research, with the microsoft office open you will run out of ram very fast, might need to refresh the tabs again and again just to compare somethings. Dont forget the shared memory taken by the integrated graphics for system that doesnt have graphic card. That is also something kills your ram capacity. So adding more ram does technically helps with performance. From my experience.

OTOH there is zero downside to HAVING more RAM as programs require ever more each year. I never cried myself to sleep over having more RAM than a minimal amount, but I run virtual machines where ability to generously provision them helps.

Helpful video I recently bought identical rams to make my pc run at 32 and it slowed down my computer I checked the frequency they’re all the same identical so I was upset and than decided to take out 16gb to run the pc at 16 and it runs way smoother while gaming so I’m like wow what is wrong with this thing .. now I’m on this KZfaq channel that’s why I’m here ..

12 is the minimum rec. but get 16 for matching.

You can use ram as cache which will increase the speed of the system.

Thanks for saving me $$$. My PC is 12Gb RAM. Was going to "upgrade" to 16Gb. I only use it for streaming youtube videos, ms-office, and internet search. I guess i won't need to increase it any further.

I have a hdd running 100% gpu and ram below 50% will it speed up if i upgrade to a ssd

I agree with everything here, but I've been noticing how "software creep" has been advancing quickly too. As an extreme example, the early versions of Netscape were 1MB, and now it's 80MB. Everything is getting bigger and hungrier for RAM, and people are using tabs a lot more. I've run into so many situations where people have browsers using 4-7GB on their own. They also have Discord, Steam, Thunderbird or Outlook, Office, and maybe a few more electron web based apps, etc., and suddenly they're actually using 14GB or more of RAM. Just recently, I've come to the conclusion that I'm no longer recommending 8GB of RAM as a comfortable safe level, but now recommending people start with at least 16. Also, it's sounding like Windows 12 may have a requirement of 16, for the AI assistant stuff that it's going to include, so that probably means people should really shoot for 32 going forward. It really seems insane to me, because just a couple years ago, I would have said that almost everyone (aside from power users and gamers) would be fine with 8.

I think the "download ram" joke maybe also comes from a movie in the 90s or something.

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An MS tech (not over the phone :) ) said that there is one more step to adding ram...he maintained that whilst Windows will recognise and use the new addition - the system won't be fully optimised until there is a clean install of Windows. Was he right Liron?

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I only got more ram, just for the bragging right

So, according to your test and chart, we don't need more than 4?