Do You Really Need More RAM? - Medium

by **bdahm** Wed Jan 08, 2020 10:50 am

Long ago, when a computer began to get slow, adding more ram was a simple and cheap solution to the problem. That idea seems to have stuck around, but is that still the case? Should ram be the primary concern when trying to speed up a computer? With a modern computer and the average user, the answer to both of those questions is usually no. A computer is made up of many different parts including the CPU, GPU (sometimes combined with CPU), RAM, storage, power supply, motherboard, and a few (or a lot) more components. Why then, do people automatically assume that RAM is the bottleneck to their performance and attempt to upgrade?

https://medium.com/swlh/do-you-really-need-more-ram-4fd173dc8f78

-Bill