What Is Ram? How Does It work on Performance?

Ram stands for Random way Memory. What this means is that your computer can store and way information (bytes) in a memory slot at "random" without touching the preceding data.

So what is the incompatibility in the middle of a hard drive and Ram? A hard drive is used to constantly store data (such as documents, pictures, music etc) where as Ram is used to temporarily store information for running programs.

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For example if you are playing a computer game, thousands of times a second that game will be storing and recalling data from the Ram in order to run the processes it requires to operate. If you close the game then all this memory will be emptied, and your enlarge will not be saved. If, however, before you complete the game, you "saved" your status, what this would do would write a file constantly to the hard drive that can be then reloaded by the program at a later date. Ram will also be emptied upon shutting down your computer, resulting in all data stored in it being lost.

The type of Ram you most likely have in your computer will be called "Ddr" Ram (Ddr stands for duplicate data rate), and is referred to as Ddr, Ddr2, Ddr3 and the latest (and very uncommon at the time of writing) Ddr4. The larger the Ddr number, the faster the Ram can characterize with the processor, resulting in faster computing speeds.

Operating systems such as Windows Vista were notorious for being very "memory intensive" meaning that plainly to run the background operating system a large estimate of the Ram was taken up and inaccessible to any other application. This resulted in very slow running speeds, a qoute Microsoft attempted to rectify in Windows 7, fairly successfully.

A fairly base contemporary adaptation of Ram is the conception of "shared" graphics cards. These are commonly graphics adaptors that are built into the motherboard of a computer and instead of having their own dedicated memory (like the majority of more expensive Pci graphics cards) take control of large blocks of Ram (usually nearby 1Gb) for the sole purpose of running graphics processing. This again can often follow in machines with high amounts of Ram noticing a primary decline in doing as soon as any kind of heavy graphical strain is put on the system (such as running a 3D game).

What Is Ram? How Does It work on Performance?