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July 2010 OTOTM Winner
U.S. Military - Veteran
V8 Engine Swap
OTOTM Winner
Solid Axle Swap
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- Joined
- Jul 25, 2009
- Messages
- 1,444
- Reaction score
- 22
- Points
- 38
- Location
- Cody, WY
- Vehicle Year
- 1984
- Make / Model
- Ford
- Engine Size
- 5.0 V8
- Transmission
- Automatic
current system specs are Dell XPS M1330.
currently it has 4GB ram, Intel core2 duo T8100 penryn-3m 2.10ghz processor, 320gb 7200rpm on-board HD and Iomega 1TB external HD. GeForce 8400M GS and vista sp2 64bit. I know the O.S has a bit to do with the sluggishness and I need to upgrade to 7 but I'm waiting right now.
On bootup, after everything is loaded it already consumes 34%-36% of RAM and I think that is a large part of what I consider to be sluggish. Right now I am looking to upgrade it and eventually will do both, but want to know which is the better bang for what I'm looking to get right now. I'm looking at putting another 4GB stick of ram in to bump up to 8gb. That is $144 upgrade. The other thing I was thinking about is upgrading from my hhd to a ssd. They are very expensive and the biggest in my price range is a 64GB.
I am heavily leaning towards 4gb ram upgrade, followed by windows 7, eventually followed by ssd.
Opinions?
currently it has 4GB ram, Intel core2 duo T8100 penryn-3m 2.10ghz processor, 320gb 7200rpm on-board HD and Iomega 1TB external HD. GeForce 8400M GS and vista sp2 64bit. I know the O.S has a bit to do with the sluggishness and I need to upgrade to 7 but I'm waiting right now.
On bootup, after everything is loaded it already consumes 34%-36% of RAM and I think that is a large part of what I consider to be sluggish. Right now I am looking to upgrade it and eventually will do both, but want to know which is the better bang for what I'm looking to get right now. I'm looking at putting another 4GB stick of ram in to bump up to 8gb. That is $144 upgrade. The other thing I was thinking about is upgrading from my hhd to a ssd. They are very expensive and the biggest in my price range is a 64GB.
I am heavily leaning towards 4gb ram upgrade, followed by windows 7, eventually followed by ssd.
Opinions?