Nearly Maxed CPU, Memory, and Disk

supermammalego said:

You get what you pay for. Never leave it down to chance. You'll only get frustrated when you get to doing some real work one day and find your computer's soul decides to depart half way through whatever it is you are doing!

Hahaha. Thank you for your reply as well, was a good read.

Don't worry with my PC I am not looking at really taxing it much through heavy games anyway. I tend to use my PC more to get on older games, or smaller/'indie' games. So I have my expectations set rather low, don't worry mate. I know this PC used to be able to play alright years ago.

I just didn't realise what I was experiencing through my system may have just been natural anyway. My last question really is, with the ssd I am about to install today, and now that I have 12 GB memory, is my processors still pretty much fine for what I want to do. I thought something was wrong with them due to it spiking to near max cpu for little tasks.

RyanM94 said:

Hahaha. Thank you for your reply as well, was a good read.

Don't worry with my PC I am not looking at really taxing it much through heavy games anyway. I tend to use my PC more to get on older games, or smaller/'indie' games. So I have my expectations set rather low, don't worry mate. I know this PC used to be able to play alright years ago.

I just didn't realise what I was experiencing through my system may have just been natural anyway. My last question really is, with the ssd I am about to install today, and now that I have 12 GB memory, is my processors still pretty much fine for what I want to do. I thought something was wrong with them due to it spiking to near max cpu for little tasks.

Again it depends on the specs. You can lots of RAM but have a crap CPU. The CPU still will have a limit and it's set at the specs of the CPU ie cores, speed, architecture etc. Also your motherboard will heavily determine the performance of everything else and so if this is old(er) it likely will only support specific components. This is presuming you're using a pretty damned old computer.

Do you know the CPU model?
You'll likely be able to run a lot of games if your computer is roughly 2010-2012 onwards as CPUs began rolling out in better specs as standard as the price of processing power continues to get cheaper while the processing power continues to grow every year. Most computers these days are some sort of dual core variant and this in most scenarios is sufficient to play less demanding games as well as plenty of other stuff.

Yeah, it's all natural. You really only have a cause for concern when you're not actually doing something that is known to be resource intensive and resources are being abused by process(es). That's when you want to establish the culprit and set about fixing the issue.

Caledon Ken said:

22% is not bad at all. 2.6GB in use which makes sense, when you had 4GB you were at 50% used.

There are lots of ways of installing SSD. Cloning, clean install, backup and restore.

When I said use SSD for system and programs I was looking at model where you have two drives. In this case SSD for systems and programs and the HDD for bulk storage (movies, pictures etc)

If you have two drives you may need an additional SATA cable. Your PSU wire harness will likely have a power connector.

With new memory you are likely to see disk activity reduced as paging file will not be working so hard and the CPU won't be coordinating the work.

You are still going to see spikes in CPU, the engine has to work to get things running.

Haha oh yeah makes sense that is what you should've meant. I just went and harvested a SATA cable from an unused PC then. So I am all set for getting that setup sorted tonight when the hard drive arrived.

Thanks to all for your inputs. I'll leave this open until I have it all set up tonight/tomorrow in case I run into any problems.