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Originally Posted by otc 
Also, depending on your settings, the 8gb may be keeping your system from swapping as much. With 4gb, even if you never fill the 4gb, the computer might start to get worried when you get close and drop stuff on the swap partition. With 8gb, the computer says "whatever, its not even 50% full"
You can manage your swap partition can't you?
Either way, I still stand by that most people don't need more than 4gb of ram. Even 2gb is fine with w7 for web browsing, music listening, movie watching, email, basic MS office stuff etc.
