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I have an old Lenovo Think-something or other 72e with an i5 processor and a single 4Gb Stick of RAM. I upgraded to W10 tonight and it’s running Chrome noticeably slower. It has 2 RAM slots and according to the Crucial scan can have up to 16Gb. Do I need to buy matching RAM, ie another 4Gb stick to match what’s already fitted or can I stick an 8Gb stick in the empty slot to give me 12Gb combined?
No. Yes.
4GB should be ample though. Did you do an in-situ upgrade? SSD and clean install will be be a better spend of time and money.
Is that the minitower with the handle on top?
Fit an SSD definitely, it breathed new life into an older i5 laptop I had.
Though another 4GB of RAM definitely wouldn't hurt.
It already has an SSD and an HDD.
The OS was originally on the SSD, could the install have been on the HDD?
An example of what I’m experiencing; if I click the notifications icon on FB the drop down now takes a few seconds to populate where before the upgrade it was instant.
I have an Ideapad and it went from painfully, frustratingly slow to perfectly usable with an SSD and extra 8GB of RAM.
So yes. It's not that expensive anyway.
Chrome is known as being very memory hungry so if you’ve already got a couple of things open and then you launch it you might be approaching the 4gb limit.
Check your task manager when Chrome is running to see what else is running and how much memory it’s all using.
If your PC runs a dual channel memory system then for best performance you should use matched pairs of RAM but as far as I know unmatched may still work. I know I’d rather have 12gb of ram than 8gb and the performance advantage of 12 over 8 might be way more than sticking with a matched pair of lesser capacity. You should be able to find some guidance online, maybe even a motherboard manual which can help you out.
If you're using multiple tabs etc. in Chrome 4GB will soon be a problem IME, I ended up going to 16GB as even 8GB was a constraint (but then I'll often have 20-50 tabs open whilst I'm investigating something), I also still use the Tab Suspender extension which someone on here recommended. If you use Chrome 'normally' then I still think going from 4 to 8GB would give you a performance improvement but maybe not a dramatic one.
I am aware that Chrome is resource hungry but it ran ok on Win7Pro before the upgrade. The only change is to Win10Pro.
I’ve been considering a RAM upgrade for a while, I’m just wondering why the PC is slower on the new OS than the old one. I was under the impression it was less resource hungry.
Chrome is pretty much the only thing running. The PC is only used to surf the net and stream TV.
It could still be downloading post upgrade patches. Leave it overnight and see if it sorts itself. Give it a reboot or two too
. 4gb should be sufficient for your usage but an additional 4gb wouldn't go amiss. You could try a reinstall of Chrome or bin it and try using Edge.
Flatten it and do a clean install.
Flatten it and do a clean install.
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Presumably any important docs are on the HDD, and you can reinstall any software onto the SSD.
Although my experience with SSD's is they speed up things like loading times, but don't speed up the actual PC (exactly what you'd expect). So you can boot up a laptop in seconds, but then it hits a wall when you actually try and run something as you've found. More RAM helps then, but then at some point it hits a wall with the processor and graphics.
Did it on an old mini-PC for running TR/Zwift (which it theoretically could do, but was a bit slow), it boots up in seconds, but still won't actually run them smoothly.
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