When does increasing the amount of RAM to increase your computers performance stop working?

Q: I mean right now, 2 GB is kinda standard for a computer which has amongst other things a 320GB hard drive. Can't you self install like 10 GB RAM? Would that make your computer like a superhuman amongst computers? :)

A: Erm, it would make it very good, but the performance of the computer doesn't depend on how much RAM you have, it depends on the CPU, the GPU, the mobo, etc, etc, a 32-bit OS only supports 3.2GB of RAM, If you have a 64-bit OS then you can have up to 16 EB of RAM. Having 10 GB of RAM on a computer would not make it a "superhuman amongst computers". because, though the RAM is very important and there are many advantages to having 10GB of RAM the computer would still need a very fast CPU and GPU in order to be extremely powerful.

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