Buying more RAM for more FPS
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What it does
Adding more system memory — 16→32GB, or 32→64GB — expecting the frame rate to climb.
The honest verdict
Games need ENOUGH memory, not endless memory. Once you comfortably cover what the game and Windows use, extra capacity just sits there — a 64GB kit draws the same frames as a 32GB one in today's games. The real failure mode is the opposite: if you are actually short (8GB on a modern game, or 16GB with a browser full of tabs and a game that wants more), the system spills onto the slow drive and you get stutter and ugly 1% lows — and THEN adding RAM genuinely helps. So check whether you are actually running out before you buy. For most people on 16–32GB the frames are already all there; capacity past 'enough' is a placebo. Memory SPEED and running in dual-channel are the levers that do move frames — that is a different thing.
How Compy treats it
Compy won't recommend it. If you're curious anyway: change one thing at a time, measure it on your own rig, and revert unless it's clearly better — that loop is exactly what Compy is built around.
The Compy Blackbook holds 174 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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