How much memory does Win10 need, you know?

Win10 brings the voice assistant, Notification center, Edge browser and many security improvements, still people because the interface is not gorgeous, privacy protection has a potential threat, experience easy to lag, blue screen and many other issues and choose not to upgrade. If you have upgraded WIN10, users who play hardware typically have to consider a problem at this point: what are the WIN10 operating system requirements for configuration? What is the difference between the basic configuration requirements and the actual use given by the authorities? Today we take these questions to analyze the WIN10 Professional Edition exactly how much memory is enough?

　　

--The official minimum support configuration

　　

Except memory and processors, such as hard disk space as long as 16GB-20GB, and Win7, Win8 the same. Now the mainstream 500GB hard drive in accordance with WIN10 configuration requirements completely, even 10 years ago, the old object--80GB hard disk is enough. Of course, to run the WIN10 experience smoothly, dual-core processors +2GB memory +500GB hard drives are essential.

If you have a configuration that meets this requirement, you must be stuck with Win10. You will definitely find "system memory consumption high" from the "performance" parameter in Task Manager, and you will be prompted to run out of memory from time to time. So, if you use the WIN10 64-bit version, but also use 2GB of memory, you must upgrade quickly.

How much memory is enough?

While the basic configuration can be used as long as more than 2GB of memory, when you open the application more and more, you will soon find that memory dragged hind legs, so you can not play well. At this time there must be a lot of people will say, not everyone's needs are the same, open the application process is different, how much upgrade is the most cost-effective? Today we pass the actual test to see, in the end which programs eat the most memory, and then you can take the seat, upgrade to the best choice.

Experiment 1: For ordinary users, opening a computer usually opens QQ, browser, document, table, PPT and other actions

　　

Lab 2: Open Fireworks and PS software on this basis, and load 28 photos

　　

After two small experiments, we saw that the memory occupancy rate reached 29% (the test platform uses 16GB dual-channel memory), that is, 4GB of memory is in use. This explains: If you need to use some simple design software for your daily office, WIN10+4GB memory is likely to be a bit hard, you need to close other application processes to ensure that the memory is used only by the design software.

Experiment 3: If you like to play games, you know that in addition to the video card, the impact of the CPU, memory on the game frame number of the impact is not small. After the computer is on, just open a game and try it:

　　

A lot of people say that 4GB of memory is enough to run an online game, which is true from the data. But we have a lot of steps in the process of playing the game, the picture overlap loading and so on, these need to occupy memory. Therefore, for single-machine games, generally more than the recommended configuration of memory 50% or so can be very smooth (if the CPU and graphics card to keep up); For online games, in people and more strange scenes will consume a lot of memory, so in other aspects (U, video card, network, server) with the case, the larger the more smooth memory. For the same factors that affect game operation, but also to follow the principle of the barrel, if the CPU, graphics card performance is not good, memory is no longer useless.

--How to reduce memory usage?

If you find that your computer's memory footprint has reached more than 70%, there is a good chance of getting stuck. In this case, you can choose to upgrade the memory, in addition to a few simple ways to free up memory, to ensure normal use.

Method 1: Use one-click Acceleration to clean up memory

There are a lot of people on the computer installed a variety of computer stewards, will provide "one-click acceleration" function, if you want to reduce memory occupancy can use this method.

Method 2: Turn off processes that are consuming large memory and are no longer in use.

In the previous experiment, we saw that the design software was a memory-intensive application, and we tried to shut it down when we didn't need it. The procedure is also simple, as long as you click the "End Task" button in the "Process" tab for processes that are high in memory and no longer used in the Task manager interface.

Method 3: Set virtual memory to share the memory pressure

In addition to clearing the processes in use, we can also increase the memory capacity by setting virtual memory to reduce stress and release physical memory. The so-called virtual memory, is from the hard disk part of the space to use as memory. However, the speed of the hard disk is much slower than the memory, so the virtual memory will be slower. The setup steps are simple and can be implemented with advanced system settings, which will take effect if you restart your computer after Setup is complete.

　　

　　

Written in the end: Many players in the installation process are confused about the choice of memory, we often say 2G, 4G above is enough, the actual use of the problem is always a variety of problems. Therefore, we recommend that you have at least 8GB of memory space if conditions permit. If you love to play games, and the players who use the platform alone can choose the low price of a single memory, do not have to struggle with dual channel problems. For friends using Intel's explicit platform and APU platform, it is recommended to build dual-channel memory if you want to get better graphics processing power.

How much memory does Win10 need, you know?