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General discussion

ram memory

Jan 14, 2011 1:38PM PST

How will adding 2 additional GB of memory improve the performance of my Toshiba Satellite T215D-S1150 netbook? It currently has 2GB memory and 320GB hd and is running Win7 home premium. Thanks in advance for help.

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Sometimes.
Jan 14, 2011 1:46PM PST

While I have a 2GB windows 7 machine it does fine for most things. The one thing RAM does not add is speed. It only avoids performance robbing hard disk accesses so it will help but don't expect much in speed gain or performance.
Bob

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It won't.
Jan 14, 2011 10:16PM PST

If you had 256 Meg and upped it to 2 Gig, you'd see an improvement. 2 Gig to 4 Gig is overkill and a waste of money.

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Windows 7 and system memory
Jan 19, 2011 1:57AM PST

Ok first things first,
your machine uses a AMD processor, it is 32bit, the processor is 1.3ghz, it is not a performance machine.
adding memory will add performance since your PC uses an ATI chipset for video memory, your system uses shared memory and can pull up to 1.4gb of memory to run high graphics, adding 2gb of memory will add noticable increases in performance if you do a lot of video, picture, movie watching, or editing. If you just browse the web, you will not notice any difference. your machine comes with 2 1024 (1gb) SODIMM memory sticks, you will need to buy 2 DDR3 PC3-8500 SODIMM 2048mb sticks to install on your machine.

To Lcristia,
You are mistaken,
your machine will page anyway,
windows by default uses a page file, in a laptop, most desktops your video memory if onboard is included in that page file, you can turn this off, run a systeminfo check and you will still see a page file. This is windows way of using a Swap file off the hard disk. You can run 16gb of memory, you will still see a page file.

Your hard disk is a 5400rpm drive,
you will add memory, you will see a bottleneck effect, adding a 7200RPM drive will void performance increases after memory upgrades, but keep in mind that the AMD processor in your machine is not designed for mind bending performance.