Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Is the more RAM the better?

To answer the question above, we need first to understand how the memory works. RAM is basically a temporary storage of data. But why would you need a bigger RAM when it’s just for a temporary storage. Well, think of a RAM as your study desk and hard disk as your bookshelf. As you may realize both of this is important. Without the bookshelf and study desk, you can’t store your vast collection of books and study properly. The same goes for computer, without hard disk it can’t store and without a RAM it can’t execute its work. So if a RAM is the same as a desk, does that mean we need a bigger desk? Well that’s really depend on our usage. For students who refer to loads of books at a time, it would be good idea to get a bigger desk but for those who usually refer to a single book at a time it is unnecessary. Similar to a computer, those who usually uses heavy application such as 3D games, and more, needs a bigger RAM than usual because with a bigger RAM you are able to run many application simultaneously. On the other hand, for those who use it for normal uses it won’t be necessary to expand the RAM because the chances are the extra RAM won’t make much of a different to the computer performance.

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