You don’t need to sell your firstborn to pay for more RAM, just be more frugal with what you have!
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(Image credit: Pexels) Share Share by: Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google In this how-to, I’ll show you some quick, easy, and free ways to get more use from the memory already installed in your system. There is no escaping the rising costs of computing. Pandemics, chip shortages, and Artificial Intelligence have all played a part in raising the costs for the humble PC user. The price of your GPU has skyrocketed, and now it's memory's turn. If you don’t game, then sure, you can get by with a lower spec GPU, but every system needs RAM, and modern-day operating systems need lots of it. Or do they?
We’re not going to delve into “Linux has better memory management” territory of OS wars, but Microsoft Windows can use a sizable chunk of your RAM, so how do we reduce the hit? We need to be clever and, more importantly, frugal with how we compute. With today's incredibly inflated memory pricing, finding deals on memory is hard , so squeezing out every ounce of performance from your system is key. Let's get started!
When Windows starts up, there are a plethora of applications that automatically load. Anti-virus, Bluetooth, driver update tools, and then we have the user-installed applications that sit ready to be called (Steam, GoG Galaxy, Slack, etc.) Can we clean this up? Of course we can, and here’s how!
Five smart ways to ride out the RAM price apocalypse
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Reference reading
- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/how-to-save-memory-in-windows-ram-is-expensive-heres-how-to-maximize-the-ram-that-you-already-have#main
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