Memory upgrade helpfull?

[Yvar]

dear overclock3d community,

i was hoping you could help me in a certain matter. My neighbours have asked me to upgrade 2 of their older sony vaio laptops. and with upgrade they mean memory upgrade. When i heard this i wasnt to sure about if the performance and speed will really go up after a memory upgrade from 512mb to 2000mb in a laptop that is +- 3 years old. Does anyone have experience or any clue about wheter this will indeed speed up the laptops or if it will be a expensive upgrade that wont help.

With regards Yvar

 

[hmmblah]

dear overclock3d community,

i was hoping you could help me in a certain matter. My neighbours have asked me to upgrade 2 of their older sony vaio laptops. and with upgrade they mean memory upgrade. When i heard this i wasnt to sure about if the performance and speed will really go up after a memory upgrade from 512mb to 2000mb in a laptop that is +- 3 years old. Does anyone have experience or any clue about wheter this will indeed speed up the laptops or if it will be a expensive upgrade that wont help.

With regards Yvar

What OS? What type of memory do they need? 512MB really isn't enough for simple web browsing and office type applications anymore. What are the rest of the specs of the laptop? Memory is a very cheap upgrade unless they use very old memory. Being only 3 years old, I'd think it would be worth it to upgrade to 2GB of memory. It would make those laptops feel like new machines IMO.

 

[marsey99]

more ram in an older system is about the best upgrade you can do tbh mate

if you put in 2 1gb sticks it will make them feel new again

 

[dugdiamond]

with an increase in memory you will only notice the difference with apps that use alot of memory (photoshop, after effects), as the OS will use the virtual memory less (which is on the HDD)

if they are having issues, try defragging their system and removing any unwanted apps, and then sweep the registry.

also, empty their temp storage folders, delete cookies and TemporaryInternetFiles.

this alone will speed up their system, without a penny spent

512MB in any system being used today is tiny. a memory upgrade is definitely a good choice

 

[Yvar]

wow thanks for the quick reply people

much appreciated. this is very helpfull for me!

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