4gb to 6gb ram g50vt-a1

hey guys, i got a g50vt-a1 with win7 x64. also i bought a intel postville 80gb ssd. Now i wonder if i would gain any performance boost with 6gb ram instead of 4gb ram?
Espcially since i run alot of programs at the same time (firefox alone needs 420.000K of my ram) so it might improve performance? 40% of my ram is used atm (firefox,msn,ultrasurf.. a proxy tool,kaspersky,win7). And as i have x64 version of win7 already and no real other way to upgrade my laptop anymore (except a bigger ssd which i dont need) i thought about adding 2gb of ram.

So will it increase my performance ?
How many slots does my laptop has? i guess two which would be bad :x

thanks

@edit: firefox uses so much ram because i have so many tabs opened. 3 windows with around 30tabs all in all.

 

It won't help much, if at all. Like you said ONLY 40% of your current RAM is being allocated. That means that you could get by with 2 GBs of RAM.

 

hm well if i start a game now it could use all of my ram. ALso i´m nto sure but it seems like the 9800M GS support vram so it could take some of my ram to increase performance? But propably thats also a fail information by win7 & dox drivers

 

Well the real question is what are you trying to increase performance for? What applications? It seems to me that Windows likes to keep a lot of your RAM free, so it may still be using a page file. This is not that big of an issue if you're using an Intel SSD but still, the bandwith of RAM is many times higher than you SSD. I think the g50 only has 2 RAM slots, but maybe it will take 4GB chips like the G71.

 

I saw on Xoticpc.com that the G51 can be configured for 8GB of ram, so I suspect that the G50 can also.

 

ye but ifi have 2 slots i would need 2 new rams.. that costs alot.. i hoped for having a 3rd slot :x

 

The G50 & G51 have only 2 slots for RAM. They can handle 8GB with no problem.

 

You have an Intel SSD and you're worried about RAM cost? Lol. Newegg has some 4gb chips pretty cheap. The ones from Crucial are only $170 I think.

You didn't say what kind of performance increase you're needing?

 

you wont need two new rams, you can run unbalanced pairs such as a 4 and a 2 together just fine, you just loose dual channel whatever, and thats notoriously been a "nothing" type feature, as it increases performance so marginally, you'd be hard pressed to get any firm result that its an increase at all.

i had a 2gb stick of ram and a 1 gb stick of ram running together in my g1 for 2 years now and its fine.

the 4 and 2 situations assumes your mother board can handle 4gb sticks of ram tho.

 

Man. 30 tabs on FF? What are you checkin' out, selective ?

Just kidding, I don't think you really need much more ram if you're mainly concerned with FF's tabs, unless those tabs are on very dynamic sites loading up widgets and the likes or with lots of images.

 

Ya, I tend to have 20-40 tabs open too. I surf the web like a spider, seems like every page I read I find a couple new google searches to do and a couple new links to open, lol.

With your page file on the SSD I don't think you'll notice any multitasking difference unless you're maybe encoding video in the background and other complex tasks, and maybe not then either.