N3710 would it really benefit 8gb ram?

Hi, my system 2 weeks old
Dell 11-3168 Intel N3710 2.56GHz Quad-Core,4 GB RAM, Sandisk 240gb SSD, Intel HD Graphics 405, touch screen (1366 x 768)
It was one of those great Dell outlet buys at $149 came with a 500gb slow HD and I replaced with with a basic Sandisk plus 240gb this in itself makes the performance great.

With the 4gb of ram I'm able to quite nicely have:
MS Office open
Chrome with 10 tabs open
and Foxit PDF running

Its responsive and fast
So this is typical use for me

Would 8gb ram really help at all? I'm thinking of keeping this way

I have the other laptop in my signature, the dell is to take to work and "Kick around"

 

8GB wouldn't really be worthwhile with that CPU - you're more likely to reach the limits of the CPU far before you actually reach your RAM cap in most applications. Pentium and Celeron N series are designed for tablets primarily. They are 4.5W chips so don't expect much.

 

Which version of Windows are you running? If you are running 32 bit Win, more than 4 GB won't be recognized in any case.
Best, Joe

 

Oh sorry win 10 64bit
And yeah I was thinking 4gb/8gb may be the same performance, the SSD maximizes this system I think, but discussing it helps me and maybe others.
I meant to use this system as I described thats why I have the i3 for other things I may want to do.

 

If that is all you are using it for - 8GB is not needed in my opinion as RAM is not the bottleneck in that system currently.

 

One thing to point out is that all these N3710 systems are limited and the Celerons are worse.

 

No need for it with what your doing, if the system has to use pagefile it's using it form a 400MB/s SSD not a 70MB/s HDD so the performance hit isn't bad at all.

 

That won't help much as you are not running some real ram hungry stuff
I usually get 20+ tabs in my Firefox(with YouTube) as well as <10 tabs in Chrome
And with 30+ browser tabs and other stuff 8gb ram will help
In your case you are not pushing very far so you would be okay now.

 

Depending on whether you can upgrade the RAM successfully and how much it cost, it would be worth it imo (even for your usage case).

RAM is still much, much faster than your SSD... and it will make the notebook usable for a much longer lifecycle (whether you keep it or sell it/give it away when you're done).

Agreed with the posters above that the processor won't take advantage of the extra RAM to give you a remarkably 'faster' system. But; the O/S can use the extra RAM and that makes the overall experience smoother.

I would be posting the same advice if we were talking about going from 8GB RAM to 16GB RAM, btw.

Why? Because this one time cost (a few dollars...) over the expected lifetime of the notebook (a few years) will greatly increase your enjoyment each and every time you use it. (Depending of course, on that pesky 'cost' of said RAM...).

With 8GB or 16GB RAM - I would disable the hibernate and the pagefiles for your usage too (test to make sure your programs don't need the pagefile, of course).

With the disk capacity you save on the SSD? I'd OP it, of course... For an even better overall, long term experience with your new system.


See:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/why-over-provision.760922/#post-9766709


Good luck.