Ram upgrade Question!

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  1. vjicecool, Feb 19, 2012

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    Will upgrading my ram from 4gb to 8gb increase my gaming experience.
    I have a mac book pro 4gb ram, 2.0 ghz intel core i7 with 750 gb hard disk.
    I am running x plane on it
    If i increase the ram from 4 gb to 8 gb, will i see any increase i n performance . I find it little bit slow even if i played it with settings.
    Please suggest guys
     
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  2. GGJstudios, Feb 19, 2012

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  3. whoathere, Feb 19, 2012

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    I would imagine an increase will be noticed. But I'm def no expert in gaming.
     
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  4. EndlessMac, Feb 19, 2012

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    I think the quickest way to find out is to play your game first and then open up System Preferences and check for how much page outs you have. If there is a lot then you'll benefit from more RAM. If not then there will probably be no benefit.

    You should restart your Mac before doing this test so that all the page outs will be from your gaming and not from other things you do with your Mac.
     
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  5. snaky69, Feb 19, 2012

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    Most games are not RAM intensive but CPU and GPU intensive, I strongly doubt you'd see any performance improvement at all.
     
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  6. bobcan, Feb 19, 2012

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    You might also get a 'decent idea' by opening up The Activity Monitor and seeing what the System Memory usage shows you.. I would think that for the price, an 8GB Upgrade would be well worth it on any MBP..
     
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  7. GGJstudios, Feb 19, 2012

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    I think you probably meant "Activity Monitor", not "System Preferences", as the latter doesn't show page outs. See my post in the thread I linked to in post #2.
     
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  8. EndlessMac, Feb 19, 2012

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    You are correct. I meant Activity Monitor. :D
     
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