Can ram make Internet web pages faster?
On One Hand: RAM May Make a DifferenceRandom Access Memory (RAM) allows a computer to store program information in a location that the computer can quickly access with minimal delays. Because, according to ScienceText.com, a web browser runs from RAM, increasing the amount of random access memory in a computer allows the browser to hold more information and more quickly load web pages.On the Other: Experts Say OtherwiseThough increasing RAM can make a web browser load more quickly, Internet professionals recommend other methods for improving web page download speeds. Internet reference site WebReference.com recommends using a cache, rather than RAM, to store elements from a website so that site will load more quickly on future visits.
The obvious answer: If your computer’s performance is currently constrained by limited RAM – AND if your computer and operating system can both make use of more – adding more RAM will make it faster. If your computer could use faster RAM and is currently performance limited by memory bandwidth, replacing your RAM with faster RAM may help. If your computer is constrained by processor speed not memory issues, more RAM is unlikely to help. If your system’s constraint on web pages loading is a slow connection to the internet, neither a faster processor nor more RAM will make web pages load faster. If your system’s performance constraint is too many background processes sucking up all your system resources… well… I hope you get the idea. I suspect more often than not adding RAM is not the best answer for slow web browsing – but, on the other hand, sometimes it helps a great deal.
