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IainB:
Interesting charts found here: How Much Physical Memory Can Windows Actually Use (or See)?
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-IainB (June 27, 2013, 02:00 AM)
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Carol Haynes:
The base score isn't going to change in the WE Tool. You cannot get above 5.9 unless you have an SSD installed. How is upgrading RAM suposed to affect Graphics performance - basically what it is saying is that the GPU is underpowered (true on most domestic laptops).

The biggest change by increasing RAM is to reduce pagefile swapping which is a huge burden on heavily used machines. There is an argument to turn of the pagefile altogether if you have 8Gb of RAM or more - not sure if this is such a good idea or not (never tried it) but you could try with a minimal pagefile size (to allow for minidumping on error).

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