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Will RAM Boost Performance with W10 On Machine Built for W7 Home?
I have already installed W10 on a machine built for W7 Home. It has an AMD Athlon II X2 250 Processor 3.00 GHz with 5.00 GB RAM and onboard video. It seems that sometimes, when editing video or running Defender or MalwarBytes, the system slows down quite a bit. If I upgrade to 8 GB RAM, is it likely that I won't see much improvement because of the AMD Athlon II X2 250 Processor 3.00 GHz possibly the problem? When I check Task Manager when these programs are running, my CPU usage is usually near 100%.
Operating System
Windows 10 Home (x64)
System Model
Hewlett-Packard p6653w
Enclosure Type: Desktop
Main Circuit Board
Board: FOXCONN 2AB1 1.00
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 6.02 07/21/2010
Processor
3.00 gigahertz AMD Athlon II X2 250
256 kilobyte primary memory cache
2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (2 total)
Not hyper-threaded
Display
ATI Radeon HD 4200
Drives
999.63 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
804.68 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
Memory Modules
4864 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM1' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM2' has 1024 MB (serial number 448F0E79)
Slot 'DIMM3' has 2048 MB (serial number E49E51E3)
Slot 'DIMM4' has 2048 MB (serial number E39E51E3)
Controllers
AMD SATA Controller
Last edited by pserpas; 01 Jan 2016 at 23:37. Reason: Remove Serial Numbers