On 15/01/2021 21:55, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Acer ES1-521 with 8Gb RAM, AMD A6-6310 CPU, Radeon R4 Graphics1Tb HDD.
It seems to have one memory slot occupied, one empty. Running Win10 64bit.

I'd say no.

Having more memory allows mucking about with virtual machines, keeping
gazillion tabs open in web browsers, and almost no use of your paging
file - keeping things snappy.

On the other hand, 8GB is more than enough for most casual uses, and
your machine might be bound by other factors like your 1.8GHz Quad Core
CPU or hard drive speed. Your Radeon R4 Graphics memory (integrated in
he A6-6310 CPU) is deducted out of your system memory?

I've seen it said that going dual channel (memory amount staying the
same) is a gain of 10% over single. Whether that is worth it?

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Adrian C