@droylock2
1. Is your hard drive full dude?
2. Are you getting messages about Virtual memory?
Sam and I can't seem to agree on this but I hope your getting my message, the short long and short being: try the advice I gave and at worst you waste about a day. (After postage time) And if you find there is no improvements... Sam can help you find the other parts and I will tell you were he is wrong.
I mean as it stands I am the only one who has advice you some parts, obsama1 agrees with my more ram suggestion or I agree with him only going a step further 16gb is better than 8gb. SSDrives are sweet you start using it and you wonder how you used the HDD all this time.
Its your thread, your money and your call. I have built heaps of PC yours isn’t due for a complete over haul yet in my books but if you really want to then you can say "No only New will do." we can respect that and help. I use a PhII x6 1075t OC'd to 3.3 it used to do 3.4 but its older now its getting replace when Piledriver comes out.
@sam
First Stop Double posting or go away once is mistake twice is our time. Second you don't understand bottle necks unlike you Just because you built your computer doesn’t mean your an expert.
You still haven't give a reason not to try my Idea. WHAT THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN?? Well the Whole Universe Vaporising slowly and painfully killing all life... but the worst case real word scenario is that He has to wait a week and tries this to see if I am right.
Again for your Benefit: The SSD is to Improve General performance and load times.
If you think an SSD has nothing to do with General performance then your Sillier than your double post would imply. So a faster world load and boot and shut down means nothing to you personally that’s fine but it matters to most of us. Its irrelevant to you well you can enjoy your wait. IF Your spending a $1000 you would want an SSD as your boot drive with your games on it, and your other stuff on the 500gb mech you bring over from the old build as a storage drive. Heck this guy has a 500 gb drive and it may but full as which can cause massive problems.
The RAM is to Deal with all the things running at once, More RAM is worth a try the CPU is not the problem and neither are the Graphics the problem is probably Software based. It can run BF3 smoothly on Ultra res if the right resources are given to it. Even if what you say about 2 GB were right IF which I just established they’re not then my idea seems even better.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/how-well-does-windows-7-handle-512mb/672 more facts you can run it with 512mb Smarty pants I could look for more but it was workable in beta and I know how buggy MS OS is in Beta.
8gb is small Your either very brave or very fool hardy to run it without a small Page File. Regards less of wether you even know Where to control a page file WHAT YOU DID WAS ADD MORE RAM!!! Why would your do that if 4 GB isn’t a bottle neck???
It was because you were running out of Virtual memory or using too much and that’s to slowing everything down right? Well have I got news for you buster virtual memory is the PAGE FILE! Case and point your Not helping here you just want to waste Droy's money without thinking.