[quote=@Meta] Your RAM isn't your bottleneck. Looking up your prebuilt model, your problem is the fact that you have an ATI Radeon HD5570 (and the fact that it's still ATI instead of AMD is telling, considering this was made before AMD bought ATI). Games are almost entirely GPU-bound, and this one isn't good. [/quote] I'm literally having my ram maxed out by minecraft, and literally every modern game recommends 16gb. Just tell me what I should get to be able to be set for a year or three. I have no idea if I'm ever gonna clean my laptop so I don't know if my harddrive is still intact and I can't use it even though it's more than advanced enough.