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    Added an extra 1gb of Ram Now What?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Necss, Apr 3, 2007.

  1. Necss

    Necss Notebook Consultant

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    Ok soadded 1gb more ram had 512mb do i need to change virtual ram ammount or anythiing like that tp get the full potential?
     
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    You should not need to change anything. The virtual memory should be used less because more can be held in the physical RAM and this is what give the performance improvement. Also, your GPU might be given a bigger share of the RAM which could improve performance under heavy GPU use.

    You may also see a performance improvement if you defrag the virtual memory. You can use pagedefrag. I would recommend setting the virtual memory to a fixed size (2GB?) before defragging and then leaving it at that size. Dynamic resizing of the swap file will result in becoming fragmented over time.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Apr 3, 2007
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  3. Necss

    Necss Notebook Consultant

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    ok will do thx for ur time
     
    Necss, Apr 3, 2007
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