3820T upgrade- memory or ssd?

Hi anyone


my 3820T enters quire frequently in a lazy stage after several hours of non-usage. When try to work, the hdd starts to work and for 5min cannot do anything, sometimes freezes completely.
I work indeed with 5-6 applications open all the time, but i am not ready to change my work style, so upgrade is needed.

question is: ssd or memory. i have 4gb but looks like easily i reach 755 physical memory usage.

any advise is welcome. also, as this laziness started happening only few months ago, i believe it is also some windows cleaning issue.

best
Marius

 

Reinstalling Windows is the cheep option.
If your HDD diode is constantly lighting up and RAM is not fully utilized it's not a memory issue.

If you can afford to upgrade to SSD by all means do so. And while you're there replace one 2GB RAM stick with 4GB.
Buying 4GB RAM stock is very cheap so it won't really add cost to the upgrade.

Anyway- start with the obvious which is new Windows installation- it may turn out that solves the lag entierly.

 

I doubt that you are having memory issues. Your drive could be failing however. It could also be a software issue. Here is my clean install guide if you want to install a clean copy of W7 HP. http://forum.notebookreview.com/ace...rks-tweaks-mods-upgrades-162.html#post6465732 I also recommend an SSD. I just put a Samsung 830 128 GB in my 3820TG.

 

I would recomend clean installation of windows and checking HDD for defects using some software.
[offtopic]
Bronsky why are you selling yours?

 

I've been using my X301 at work. We recently bought a new Precision M4700 at work for assembling and editing graphics and I'll have a Microsoft Surface Pro for presentation with an HD 4000 IGPU. I just don't need it anymore and haven't been gaming much over the past year.