laptop perforamnce help

[spartaks2000]

i have lenovo y720 i want to ask can i increase performance upgrading ram(to 16gb)? currently 8gb single channel and will it increase performance if i put game in ssd?
im askint this because i see poeple in youttube showing off their laptop can run game like gta v on ultra with 50-70 fps WHILE RECORDING i do the same only without recording..... so im losing araund 20 fps

 

[Wolfshadw]

1) 16GB of RAM will only help you if you're currently running out of RAM. If your system only uses up to 6GB out of 8GB, then using 6GB out of 16GB won't make any difference.

2) If your system is running the OS and games from an SSD, that should speed things up.

3) Don't believe everything you see on YouTube. If they're not faking the numbers, they're using highly modified settings in Windows to reduce CPU/RAM usage.

-Wolf sends

 

[Grobe]

Is point 1 actually the full truth? Wouldn't the OS spend more cpu time allocate data to memory when it start to fill up?

 

[Wolfshadw]

Is point 1 actually the full truth? Wouldn't the OS spend more cpu time allocate data to memory when it start to fill up?

Data I'm finding says there is no significant difference.

-Wolf sends

 

[spartaks2000]

Yea but there full youtube single ram vs dual channel.ram and dual channel.always higher fps

 

[Wolfshadw]

In that case, you'd be right. Going from single channel to dual channel would probably provide you with a performance boost. Sorry. I tend to forget that laptops generally start out with just a single RAM module.

-Wolf sends