With ebays 10% off used items I've gone for a corsair 2x8gb 2666 ram set (Thanks
@SAHO )
Currently have 2x4gb 2400 that shipped with the laptop and I noticed idle 5.9gb were free
Internal graphics card has 2gb dedicated and 3.9gb shared ram so unless I'm reading it wrong, under heavy GPU load the ram could be a bottleneck
So to hopefully get a few more years out of her hopefully the extra 8gb will be good
And at £35 hardly a bank breaker
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Edit, Actually I read that wrong, well kinda, under normal load of a few tabs being open it shows at around:
5gb were used
2gb were cache allocated
1gb were free
What explains why I never saw the ram go above 6gb, it was bottlenecked within seconds and had nothing free to use.
Seems I've gone from justifying something I likely wont notice any difference with.. To something that actually needed upgrading