will I gain any performance from buying another 4gigs of ram?

treepop · 12-30-10, 08:49 PM

I am running the system in my sig. I am thinking of adding another 2x2gig sticks. Will I gain ANY performance in the following games/apps:

Adobe Photoshop CS 5
Adobe Lightroom 3
Starcraft 2
World of Warcraft
Diablo 3 (when it comes out)
COD:Black Op's

Thanks for the input

jmdixon85 · 12-30-10, 08:54 PM

Well, in games I would say no.

Photoshop could benefit if you work with hi-res images?

You could monitor your RAM and pagefile usage whilst working with some large images to see if the upgrade is worthwhile.

Trap05 · 12-30-10, 08:59 PM

DDR3 is cheap now so if you think you'll need it now is the time to buy

bigben6 · 12-31-10, 08:48 AM

I would think for Photo shop yes you will see an improvement, but i agree that you should look and log total mem usage when your editing.

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