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Question

Does using a lot of proprams and tabs effect my PC's hardwer

Sep 26, 2017 8:07AM PDT

Does it impact my hardware in the long term "ram ..motherboard ..etc ??.. I'm ok with my pc performance while in these programs ..what i just wanna what happens to the hardware after months or years ..

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Re: lot of programs and tabs
Sep 26, 2017 8:19AM PDT

If you don't have much RAM, so make extensive use of virtual memory, it might have effect on the hard disk or SSD, not on the RAM or motherboard.

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No
Sep 26, 2017 8:19AM PDT

Assuming you have enough ram so that your not driving the page file crazy.