While I'm guilty of having more RAM than I can actually notice any usage for I can't help but wonder if anybody actually and truly can say more RAM helps them. I had 4Gb in my laptop for over a year so I upgraded to 6Gb when a 4gb stick hit like $15 quite a while back and can't say I've ever noticed a difference on that. I figured with my desktop it would be more likely for me to see a difference since everything is faster in that anyway. I went from 4gb to 8gb and can't honestly say I ever actually see a difference.

Both my desktop and my laptop have ALWAYS had Intel SSD's in them. Having an SSD probably makes the RAM upgrade a bit less noticeable but I truly dont know. The SSD purchases have honestly been the only actual upgrade I've noticed in YEARS. I dont play many games but civ 5 does actually run better with the 8gb RAM but that thing eats up system resources like crazy. Normally when I feel like gaming I pull up my Xbox or my PS3 just because thats what my friends have