Memory manufacturer Corsair researched what are the advantages of having more than 4GB of RAM. In the analysis titled "Doing More With More Memory" company showed benefits of having 8GB over 4GB of RAM. They conducted a test with Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P motherboard, a 2.6 GHz Phenom II X3 710 CPU, a P256 solid state drive, a GeForce GTX 280 graphics card, a HX1000W power supply, and running Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit. Crysis,Warhead and other benchmarks showed superiority of system with 8GB of DDR3 RAM.

In the Introduction of the analysis, investigators wrote that test "will show how the additional RAM allows for a 'snappier' and more responsive PC, with performance improvements of up to 186% versus a PC with 4GB of RAM. And it will also show how adding more RAM allows you to change the way in which you use your PC, by allowing you to 'do more'. This includes running more applications (and never needing to close them), working with more data, and even running another 'virtualized' operating system".