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Cowmill45

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I have an old computer running Linux mint, with 2 gigs of 6400 ddr2 ram. It is BARELY keeping up. Will a set of (2) 2 gb sticks of ddr2 speed it up?
 
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Enderegg

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More RAM usually means having more programs open. Check task manager (or however it is called on linux) and see how much RAM you are using. If it's 80% or more, it MAY help, but it won't be world changing. If it's less than that, I wouldn't bother.
 
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Cowmill45

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When I checck the ram usage, its at about 12% idle, but the cpu usage at idle is around 40%, should I upgrade the Cpu and motherboard instead?

 
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Spectre694

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It uses DDR2 odds are it is just old though adding more RAM will help. It may also help to switch to a lighter DE mint comes default with Cinnamon which isn't the lightest around (not the heaviest either though). That should lighten the CPU load some.
 
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