Windows 10: Only 6.9GB out of 12GB of RAM is able to be used

You can see that 12 GB of RAM has been detected, but I can only use 6.9GB of it?

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Upgrading RAM to 12GB or 16GB?

Hi,

That depends on the type of and the demand of the tasks that you plan on performing on the device. For example, I am currently running 12 GB of RAM on my desktop which is more than sufficient for Win 10 Pro performance however, I often my have 20 to 40 or
more tabs open on 2 different browsers from time to time and also do frequent image and video manipulation and rendering all of which can be quite RAM hungry (pushing up to 75% plus used at times even with 12GB of virtual memory allocated). My system board
will accept a max of 24GB of physical memory and I plan on doing it in the future (that's 4GB x 6 modules on this device, so, I'm saving up).

Now, that being said, my recommendation to you being that you are already committed to upgrading the amount of RAM on the device and being that you are trying to decide if you should just buy the 12GB or spend a little more on 16GB instead, and you plan
on keeping the device (and keeping it going and also viable for the foreseeable future) then 16GB would be the way to go, or, 12GB would suffice in its stead.

Food for thought?

Good Luck going forward,

-Richard

 

Upgrading RAM to 12GB or 16GB?

Hi everyone:

I have this machine:

Intel DB75EN...........it has 8GB of DDR3 RAM..... it's an older i5-2400 at 3ghz.

I acidentally (nice) discovered there's still a chance to improve RAM...I can't buy or afford a newer PC.

Amazon has Crucial DDR3 and they fit my machine in the specs checker they have.

I recently added an Crucial SSD and have Windows 10 installed there. It boots better and folders open faster than the HDD.

However, apps aren't faster at all. Just Windows.

The machine has 2 sticks of 4GB installed which make the 8GB. Going from 8GB to 12GB........will it make a difference?

Or it's better to go to 16GB?.

If I could I would to go to 32GB.......the machine specs says it supports up to 32GB RAM (however I can't afford it), since they're DDR3, they are older and are NOT cheap. I can only afford up to 16GB.

Should I make the effort to get 16GB or will 12GB be good?

Thanks so much for your suggestions.

 

Is 12gb of ram too much?

I wish memory prices would drop, so I could upgrade from 12GB to 24GB. lol

You can either spend the money on fast 6 GB or go value 12 GB.

Windows runs ideally with about 18 GB apparently (for caching etc). But yah, most people don't need 12. My ram usage is listed at 15-18% most of the time.