Affect of 4gig ram to 8gig ram upgrade on gaming performance?

i have 13" base model macbook pro. purchased 2 4gig chips replace 2 2gig chips (they should arriving in mail in week or so). question is: how affect gaming performance? on mac partition, play blizz games sc2 , wow (both run @ ~60fps on fair graphics, although shaders/shadows must turned down). gaming on bootcamp partition (windows 7).
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i have 13" base model macbook pro. purchased 2 4gig chips replace 2 2gig chips (they should arriving in mail in week or so). question is: how affect gaming performance? on mac partition, play blizz games sc2 , wow (both run @ ~60fps on fair graphics, although shaders/shadows must turned down). gaming on bootcamp partition (windows 7).

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games typically more cpu/gpu intensive, , may or may not benefit more ram. determine if can benefit more ram, launch activity monitor , click system memory tab @ bottom check page outs. page outs cumulative since last restart, best way check restart computer , track page outs under normal workload (the apps, browser pages , documents have open). if page outs significant (say 1gb or more) under normal use, may benefit more ram. if page outs 0 or low during normal use, won't see performance improvement adding ram.

mac os x: reading system memory usage in activity monitor

 

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