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If the front side bus (FSB) of either the CPU or RAM exceeds one or the other, the slowest is considered the bottleneck.
This analogy may not be as true as it used to be since ram is much cheaper than it once was, but youll get the picture.
LEt's say your ehaving a party, and you need to go to the shop and buy some party goods: snacks, drinks, paper plates, etc.. You have X amount of money in your wallet. You go to the grocery store and have to make a choice between using 2 grocery carts, or making 2 trips using one grocery cart each trip.
If you dont have enough ram, the grocery cart has to be emptied before it can be refilled. Thats what your pagefile is for. Adding more ram saves all the memory dumps to the pagefile on your hard disk. More ram saves you those bits of time because ram can be read faster than the HDD can. Just keep in mind if you have two grocery trolleys full of goods it can take a while to sort through it, but have the same amount of goods divided amongst 4 trolleys means you need someone to help you push the other two: pointless.
This was true back in the early part of the 2000's when a 1 gig stick of SSDRAM cost over $1,000. Now its $25 for 4GB in my area. So theres no reason to only have 1GB of ram, but 32GB is just nerd testosterone on the decks.
This analogy may not be as true as it used to be since ram is much cheaper than it once was, but youll get the picture.
LEt's say your ehaving a party, and you need to go to the shop and buy some party goods: snacks, drinks, paper plates, etc.. You have X amount of money in your wallet. You go to the grocery store and have to make a choice between using 2 grocery carts, or making 2 trips using one grocery cart each trip.
If you dont have enough ram, the grocery cart has to be emptied before it can be refilled. Thats what your pagefile is for. Adding more ram saves all the memory dumps to the pagefile on your hard disk. More ram saves you those bits of time because ram can be read faster than the HDD can. Just keep in mind if you have two grocery trolleys full of goods it can take a while to sort through it, but have the same amount of goods divided amongst 4 trolleys means you need someone to help you push the other two: pointless.
This was true back in the early part of the 2000's when a 1 gig stick of SSDRAM cost over $1,000. Now its $25 for 4GB in my area. So theres no reason to only have 1GB of ram, but 32GB is just nerd testosterone on the decks.
I just realised how old this thread was 
