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My experience on an i4790k machine with 8 GB RAM after "upgrading" to Win 10: Chrome tabs tend to get swapped out to SSD quite quickly. Re-opening those tabs t

My experience on an i4790k machine with 8 GB RAM after "upgrading" to Win 10: Chrome tabs tend to get swapped out to SSD quite quickly. Re-opening those tabs takes a few seconds now, compared to instantly before. Am pondering adding another 8 GB for a total of 16 to see if it helps...

DiabloD3 11y ago
I have 32GB in my workstation for exactly one app. That app is a browser. It's name starts with C.
bkjelden 11y ago
I was running Windows 7 with an HDD and just upgraded to an SSD & Windows 10 because I got sick of listening to my HDD groan for 10 seconds whenever I changed tabs :) I wonder you're experiencing a use case where you'd see notable perf improvements from a pcie ssd. Jeff Atwood blogged about his upgrade to a faster ssd last week: http://blog.codinghorror.com/building-a-pc-part-viii-iterating/ http://blog.codinghorror.com/building-a-pc-part-viii-iterati... Of course, assuming you have unused RAM, it would be nice if the OS would just use the RAM available before swapping to SSD.
omgtehlion 11y ago
Today 8GB of ram is a minimum for web browsing, unfortunately :(
- rodgerd 11y ago
  Nonsense. I have a Windows 10 laptop with 2 GB of memory and it browses very happily. Just don't use Chrome.
  - heywire 11y ago
    Ironically, my little C720 Chromebook running Chrome OS with 2GB of ram browses pretty decently as well. But it also only has 1366x768 of screen real estate to worry about...
- alyandon 11y ago
  This is a pretty sad state of affairs with the modern web. I have an old Linux box running with 4GB of ram under my desk right now and it is borderline unusable for surfing the web with Chrome if I have any other applications open in the background. Firefox isn't as bad but it is also not a pleasant experience either. At home, I have a laptop with 2GB of ram that I've upgraded to Windows 10 and the Windows Edge browser is also virtually unusable because of memory usage with more than a couple of tabs open.
- ionised 11y ago
  What makes you say this? It's not even remotely true.

DiabloD3 11y ago

I have 32GB in my workstation for exactly one app. That app is a browser. It's name starts with C.

bkjelden 11y ago

I was running Windows 7 with an HDD and just upgraded to an SSD & Windows 10 because I got sick of listening to my HDD groan for 10 seconds whenever I changed tabs :) I wonder you're experiencing a use case where you'd see notable perf improvements from a pcie ssd. Jeff Atwood blogged about his upgrade to a faster ssd last week: http://blog.codinghorror.com/building-a-pc-part-viii-iterating/ http://blog.codinghorror.com/building-a-pc-part-viii-iterati... Of course, assuming you have unused RAM, it would be nice if the OS would just use the RAM available before swapping to SSD.

omgtehlion 11y ago

Today 8GB of ram is a minimum for web browsing, unfortunately :(

rodgerd 11y ago
Nonsense. I have a Windows 10 laptop with 2 GB of memory and it browses very happily. Just don't use Chrome.
- heywire 11y ago
  Ironically, my little C720 Chromebook running Chrome OS with 2GB of ram browses pretty decently as well. But it also only has 1366x768 of screen real estate to worry about...
alyandon 11y ago
This is a pretty sad state of affairs with the modern web. I have an old Linux box running with 4GB of ram under my desk right now and it is borderline unusable for surfing the web with Chrome if I have any other applications open in the background. Firefox isn't as bad but it is also not a pleasant experience either. At home, I have a laptop with 2GB of ram that I've upgraded to Windows 10 and the Windows Edge browser is also virtually unusable because of memory usage with more than a couple of tabs open.
ionised 11y ago
What makes you say this? It's not even remotely true.