Dumb question coming from a Comptia A plus I wonder do I need add more ram to my laptop?

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I know more RAM is always better. But what is the point when you reach to a point extra is waste of money or something like that. I am thinking adding 8 GB ram but at the same time I am tight on cash but I been thinking about adding more ram for a while.

Here are the information you need and I am using 80% Physical Memory or 2.20 GB out of 3 GB:

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SYSTEM SUMMARY
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Windows 7 Home Premium Edition Service Pack 1 build 7601 (64-bit),
1 x AMD Athlon(tm) II P320 Dual-Core Processor [2095.0 MHz],
2.7GB RAM,
AMD M880G with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250, 
233GB HDD, 
CD-RW/DVDRW, 

GENERAL
System Name: MICHAELBAUERMEI
System Model: Presario CQ62 Notebook PC
Motherboard Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
Motherboard Name: 1444
Motherboard Version: 69.26
Motherboard Serial Number: CNFO175VFH
BIOS Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
BIOS Version: F.17
BIOS Release Date: 11/07/2010

CPU
CPU manufacturer: AuthenticAMD
CPU Type: AMD Athlon(tm) II P320 Dual-Core Processor
CPUID: Family 10, Model 6, Stepping 3, Revision DA-C3
Physical CPU's: 1
Cores per CPU: 2
Hyperthreading: Not capable
CPU features: MMX 3DNow! SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSE4a DEP PAE AMD64 
Clock frequencies:
   Measured CPU speed: 2095.0 MHz
Cache per CPU package:
   L1 Instruction Cache: 2 x 64 KB
   L1 Data Cache: 2 x 64 KB
   L2 Cache: 2 x 512 KB

MEMORY
Total Physical Memory: 2811MB
Available Physical Memory: 542MB
Memory devices:
   0: 
   - 2048MB, 1066MHz, 
   1: 
   - 1024MB, 1066MHz, 
Virtual memory: C:&#92;pagefile.sys (allocated base size 2810MB)

GRAPHICS
AMD M880G with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250
   Chip Type: ATI display adapter (0x9712)
   DAC Type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
   Memory: 256MB
   BIOS: BK-ATI VER010.094.001.045.035812
   Driver provider: ATI Technologies Inc.
   Driver version: 8.770.2.1000
   Driver date: 9-19-2010
   Monitor 1: 1366x768x32 60Hz (Primary monitor) 

DISK VOLUMES
C:  Local drive, NTFS, (218.99GB total, 139.98GB free)
D:  Local drive, RECOVERY, NTFS, (13.70GB total, 12.80GB free)
E:  Optical drive, CDDVDW TS-L633N

DISK DRIVES
Disk drive: Model Hitachi HTS542525K9SA00 SATA Disk Device (Size: 232.89GB)

OPTICAL DRIVES
E: hp CDDVDW TS-L633N (CD-RW/DVDRW)

NETWORK
Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller (Speed: 100Mb/s)
Atheros AR9285 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (Speed: 90Mb/s)

PORTS
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
   -  (SN: B53A2680)
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller

Computer Doc · Accepted Answer

The minimum that I would use for Windows 7 home premium is 4 gb. 

Download Process Explorer and select and add cpu time and peak working set columns and see where your memory usage is and what is using it. Firefox itself can eat up more than a gigabyte.

If you are not exceeding your memory limit and going into paging, more memory won't matter. If you are always using paging, adding memory will give you a big boost.

Seamus · Answer

2.7 gb of ram is not good at all no matter what you do with a computer/laptop

i dont think you need 8GB of ram depending on what you are going to do if its for gaming with go for it and if its not i think at least 6GB is enough

Laurence I · Answer

waste of time, waste of money
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Dumb question coming from a Comptia A plus I wonder do I need add more ram to my laptop?

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