Upgrade from 2GB to 8GB RAM

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alphaskate

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I have a EMachines Dual Core E300 (1.3 GHz) 64 bit processor. Running Win. 7 Home; 500 GB Hard Drive
I have 3 questions:
1. I upgrade my 2GB RAM to 8GB (7.5 usable) what does this mean?
2. My PC is still running very slow, what can I do to get it faster?
3. When I click on a program on my desktop it's slow to open why?

 
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7.5 gb usable, windows has reserved the other .5 gb
2. Your CPU is a Intel Core 2 duo E3000 cpu. Its quite slow i suggest you upgrade to a intel core 2 quad that is at least 3.0 ghz.
3. Ram and cpu speed effect loading times very little. if your using a hard disk drive, a HDD, your load times will be slow still as the hdd can only read so many megabytes per second. A upgrade to a 250gb Samsung 840 Evo ssd will have your system booting and load applications extremely fast. you can then use your hdd for storage.
 
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Check that you have the latest BIOS, should be a fair bit snappier with 8GB, guessing the BIOS didn't set the sticks up to well. Also you said you upgraded from 2GB to 8GB - is it a 2x4GB set you upgraded to? or a 4x2GB set? or did you just add 6GB (3x2GB) to the curent 2 GB you had - all of those can have different effects on the system
 
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