Martin, I highly suspect I know the suspect who told you that.... :-)

On some level, you are right, there is a point where adding more RAM has no effect on the performance of the computer. However, there are two levels of this:

1. Hardware

The motherboard and/or chipset may have a limit on the amount of RAM it can support

2. Software

A 32 bit OS will almost always use a max of 3GB, regardless of of how much you have installed in there. That limit changes for a 64bit OS.

Your assignment:

1. Find out the exact make and model of your processor, and check out its detailed specs on Intel Ark, that will tell you whether its 64bit or not.

2. Find the tech specs of your motherboard, the speed of its FSB and chipset, this will give you some figures you can use to see what type of RAM will work faster, remember, RAM is always slower than the processor.

Then from all that tech info, you now have a technical basis for stating the max amount of RAM, instead of relying on my suspect :-)
 

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Martin Gicheru <martin@techweez.com> wrote:

Hallo skunks!

I wonder where I would get info on what the optimal RAM a Samsung series 3 laptop can perform on. I have the NP300V5A which maxes out at 8GB, though it came with 4GB on board and is a core i3, 2.3 running Windows 8 pro.
Someone told me that there is optimal RAM and beyond that a machine will be virtually wasting the rest of the capacity and might not utilise it. Anyone know details on this?

Regards,

Martin Gicheru | Founder and Editor at Techweez

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