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memory basics one of the pro best ways to increase the performance of your computer system is by adding more memory. with additional memory, you can have more programs running at the same 430cdt time, and work on larger business files like satellite spreadsheets and databases. easily installed, ram chips can speed up graphics applications, multimedia and, especially, games. how it works before information can be processed by a computer, it must first be transferred to a special data storage area called ram (random access memory). ram is connected directly to the processor by high speed data pathways. as long as your data is in ram, the computer''s processor has almost instantaneous access to it. when the processor pro needs information that is not currently in ram, it must be loaded from the hard drive and placed in ram, a much slower process. so the more ram you have, the higher your system''s overall performance.

memory basics one of the pro best ways to increase the performance of your computer system is by adding more memory. with additional memory, you can have more programs running at the same 430cdt time, and work on larger business files like satellite spreadsheets and databases. easily installed, ram chips can speed up graphics applications, multimedia and, especially, games. how it works before information can be processed by a computer, it must first be transferred to a special data storage area called ram (random access memory). ram is connected directly to the processor by high speed data pathways. as long as your data is in ram, the computer''s processor has almost instantaneous access to it. when the processor pro needs information that is not currently in ram, it must be loaded from the hard drive and placed in ram, a much slower process. so the more ram you have, the higher your system''s overall performance.

you can think of ram as an incredibly fast hard drive that stores information temporarily instead of permanently. when you start a program it is loaded from the hard drive into ram. when a program is running in ram it can run hundreds to thousands of times faster than it can if run directly from the hard drive. the problem is that the capacity of a standard hard drive is many times the size of a computer''s ram size, meaning it is possible to load so many programs that the ram can no longer hold them. when that happens, your computer''s virtual memory 430cdt kicks in, and that''s bad. virtual memory is simply your hard drive trying to act like a ram chip. since the hard drive is so much slower than real memory, programs stutter and sometimes crash when the hard drive has to do a job it was never designed for. there are only two solutions to this problem: close some programs until virtual memory is no longer needed, or add more physical memory. if you can afford it (and current memory prices are satellite low enough that practically anyone should be able to), the latter solution is always preferable.

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