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Mac recognizes more ram but no performance difference?
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<blockquote data-quote="DJLanglois" data-source="post: 469703" data-attributes="member: 35593"><p>Well, here's something worth saying (although it might not apply to your case).</p><p></p><p>Sometimes people are unhappy with it taking 2.5 seconds -- or however many seconds -- for a particular program to open (or something of this sort). And, in such cases, people often assume that simply dumping more RAM into a machine will increase the speed of the process. But, of course, this isn't always true. Oftentimes, the perceived slowdown isn't the result of insufficient RAM, but rather other potential bottlenecks in the process (e.g. how quickly the RAM is speaking to the motherboard; the speed of the HDD; etc.).</p><p></p><p>Try to do something memory intensive, both with and without the additional RAM. And then let us know whether you see a difference.</p><p></p><p>(EDIT -- Also, because you're not running matching sticks, you're not going to see the benefit of your memory running in dual channel. But, nevertheless, you should see gains on RAM intensive tasks.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DJLanglois, post: 469703, member: 35593"] Well, here's something worth saying (although it might not apply to your case). Sometimes people are unhappy with it taking 2.5 seconds -- or however many seconds -- for a particular program to open (or something of this sort). And, in such cases, people often assume that simply dumping more RAM into a machine will increase the speed of the process. But, of course, this isn't always true. Oftentimes, the perceived slowdown isn't the result of insufficient RAM, but rather other potential bottlenecks in the process (e.g. how quickly the RAM is speaking to the motherboard; the speed of the HDD; etc.). Try to do something memory intensive, both with and without the additional RAM. And then let us know whether you see a difference. (EDIT -- Also, because you're not running matching sticks, you're not going to see the benefit of your memory running in dual channel. But, nevertheless, you should see gains on RAM intensive tasks.) [/QUOTE]
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