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04 30th, 2009
The PC Doctor wrote an intriguing post today on
Here’s a little taster
Here’s an interesting question I received today …
Question: Depending on whether you have a 32-bit Windows or 64-bit Windows, which makes more sense; adding more RAM or fitting a faster hard drive (such as a solid-state drive or SSD)?
A lot depends on what you do with the PC, so I’ll look at the general picture and then some more specific scenarios.
On the whole, the gains from adding more RAM to a 32-bit Windows system start to tail off at about 3GB (when entire OS can only address 4GB, so there’s no point going over that). so if you’ve already got 2GB or so of RAM installed then adding a faster drive will give you more bang for the buck than adding more memory at that stage. If you’ve got less than 2GB of RAM, then add the RAM first.
On a system with 64-bit Windows installed things are a little different. […]
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