Windows 10: On upgrading your system beware of 16+ GBs RAM - Hell Corner

Discus and support On upgrading your system beware of 16+ GBs RAM - Hell Corner in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; So basically I am writing this (Frequently Asked Yet Wrongly Answered Question) after realizing that there are minimal knowledge available about RAMs... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by nIGHTmAYOR, Oct 31, 2018.

  1. On upgrading your system beware of 16+ GBs RAM - Hell Corner


    So basically I am writing this (Frequently Asked Yet Wrongly Answered Question) after realizing that there are minimal knowledge available about RAMs and their optimizations :

    Q - I have 8 GBs of RAM would buying 16 GBs make my system run faster ?

    A - A tech would answer you "But probably you do not need all that memory and you might peek at tops 80% of 8 GB capacity so might be a useless upgrade not unless you are running high end Video/2D/3D editing software !" .

    But yet here is a fact few know , upgrading to 16 GBs of RAM might actually "Slow You Down" . As you might know RAMs come claimed to be running at a certain Bus Speed (Lets say DDR4 2400 MHz) , is it running really at such speed ? Nope you see this is the Dual Channel Bus technology claimed speed , Dual Bus is a technology made so you can be reading data off both RAMs (Commonly they give out two slots for RAMs in most systems where if more , the claimed bus speed may increase along with channels where it would be 4 channels ~ 8 channels etc) . So by claiming RAMs to be running at 2400 MHz this mean a single stick speed is actually 1200 MHz .

    The sad story is there had been a war for years between manufacturers of RAMs and OS makers about what is called "Load Balancing" of data i.e altering the writing to both sticks so upon reading you get the actual Dual Bus speed value , the OS makers believe this should be handled by a smart chip on a RAM stick while manufacturers believe this is OS problem choosing what data goes where as OS is all about control .

    The result of this sad story is : We are left with sequential writing i.e the OS keep filling the RAMs based on first free address it finds along the path . Hence one RAM stick needs to be filled first before the other light up .

    So guess by now you are starting to gather the plot , if you are actually hardly pushing the use of your RAM capacity to 80% while on 8 GBs , upgrading to 16 GBs might actually get you to use 1 stick the whole time , meaning running at Single Channel Bus (1200 MHz in this example) capacity the whole time which is something about 50% speed loss . So before considering over-clocking your 16 GBs RAMs which would get you marginal MHz speed boost , do consider a down grade to 8 GBs to gain a significant 100% speed boost .

    Cheers
    *Cool

    :)
     
    nIGHTmAYOR, Oct 31, 2018
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  2. how to upgrade Ram from 8 to 16 gb?

    I have a Dell Inspiron with 8gb ram and windows 10. The laptop is very slow and i want to upgrade my ram to 16 gb. How to upgrade ram? need help!
     
    Madan Deepakumar Chengalvarayan, Oct 31, 2018
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  3. how to upgrade Ram from 8 to 16 gb?

    Hey Madan. This is not a Windows issue or Microsoft issue but I'll try to help.

    To go from 8 GB RAM to 16 GB. You will have to actually purchase COMPATIBLE 16 GB sticks of RAM then install them. Dell Inspiron might have more information on what kind of RAM is compatible with your PC.

    Getting more RAM is not a simple troubleshooting fix and if you are on a laptop, it might be impossible.
     
    Zackary Vanosdol, Oct 31, 2018
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  4. On upgrading your system beware of 16+ GBs RAM - Hell Corner

    winodws 10 24 gb ram installed only 16 usable

    I just upgraded from win 7 home premium 64 bit to win 10

    I know that the windows 7 version I had only went up

    to 16 gb of ram but I thought that Windows 10 had up

    to 128 gb limit.

    It still shows in the system that 24 gb is installed but only 16 is usable

    anyway to fix this, or do I need to try and create an install disk to do

    a clean install?

    My mb supports up to 32 gb ram
     
    Icottoneyejoe, Oct 31, 2018
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