Windows 10: RAM upgrade for EDGE, worth it?

Greetings all,

I use Edge as a browser - I moved from Firefox to Chrome to Edge over the years. It's the fastest at the moment.
However, it's a memory burner, I constantly have 2-4GB used by Edge when I have several tabs opened and over a few hours the speed just grinds to a halt. I know this is an issue with Edge and it does not depend on me.
My PC is an old i7 (2nd gen) with 8GB Ram. I am wondering whether upgrading to 16GB may help? I have the feeling that Edge will just consume every available resource and grind to a halt anyway! *Smile

(Yes, I am considering giving Firefox and Chrome another try! *Smile )

Thanks!

:)

 

Windows 10 upgrade on Core 2 Duo

Has anyone tried upgrading from windows 7 on core 2 duo system? How is the performance after upgrading? Overall was it worth the upgrade? I have a HP DV4t core 2 duo (Intel P8700) laptop with 6GB DDR3 ram. I would
like to get some feedback before proceeding with the upgrade.

 

N95 8GB GOOD TO BUY ????

No, 128 mb of ram makes multitasking significantly better. Moreover, demand paging will surely work on it. Ngage is preinstalled in it. Battery imprOved.

 

Hi,
I wouldn't consider Chrome but Firefox/ Palemoon would be far better than Edge will ever be.
Maxing out your ram will only be a plus to doing anything really.

 

Sounds like you have a memory leak somewhere.

 

Hi,
Post a disk management screen shot too
Disk Management - How to Post a Screenshot of General Tips Tutorials

 

I thought so, Cereberus, but I've seen reviews of Edge and they all say that Edge is using a lot of memory when lots of tabs are opened. I can see it's the Edge process using all that RAM, nothing else. The latest Windows update brought a description of each process - so I know which tab is using memory. It's usually the Gmail tab or Facebook or Outlook web interface.

Do you think it shouldn't behave like that?

Trashzone,
Attached. Why would you need to know the disk situation? Not questioning, just curious!

 

Yeah, it seems I answer that question at least weekly with my clients, confusion between RAM/Random Access Memory and Storage which use the same measurement, MegaByte and GigaByte, and explaining volatility and permanence.

 

Hi,
To see how much space is on C disk and it has 10gb's free and is probably why your machine slows down *Smile

 

Ok, I had my first PC in 1992, it was a 386-DX 25Mhz *Wink I know the difference between RAM and Storage - but I understand you can't give that for granted with someone new!

10GB is not much but I doubt it's due to that. It's an SSD BTW. I'll make some space but I'm quite confident it won't make a difference.

Found that windows had reverted to dynamically allocated virtual memory in the meantime - I've set that back to 16GB fixed even though I'm not sure it's helping anymore, it was more useful with mechanical HDDs I guess.

I am more concerned of the attached to be honest.

 

Hi,
SSD's need 15-20% for over provisioning so yeah do what you want but more ram will not help you
You need a larger ssd.

 

Hi,
You could have also have a large Hardware reserved on the existing memory
Open resource monitor and see what memory shows

 

Only 51MB hardware reserved.

I've freed up 30GB on the SSD. I shall see but I still feel it's the RAM - That said it was time to do housekeeping.

 

Hi,
Yes it was well past time to do some house cleaning *Smile
Did you run disk cleanup as administrator and get rid of some old restore points/ temp files..... ?
Might run this too download it to your desktop and right click it and run as admin.
TFC - Temp File Cleaner by OldTimer Download - Geeks to Go Forum

 

As I like to say Add RAM *Smile

Are you saying your page file is 16GB ?

Way too much.