CQ61-402SA slow

[Maria110]

Let me start off by saying I have been extremely happy with my CQ61-402sa but it is now running very slowly, if not freezing completely when I do multiple tasks

- using skype, webdocs open and web browsing - using all this at once is necessary for what I'm using the computer for at this time. 

I posted yesterday to find out how much RAM the computer would support - this would be 8gb RAM - I currently have 2gb (thought it was 4gb but I was mistaken).  Went to buy 2x4gb extra RAM and this is going to cost about £120. 

1 - So my question to the community is this - basically is it worth it?  

Will upgrading the RAM make such a big difference to my being able to perform the multiple tasks above?

2 - Is there anything else I can do to improve the running performance of the computer?  I regularly do a cleanup (dumping unneccesary files, disk optimisation)

Many thanks in advance

Kind regards

Maria

[iomare · Accepted solution]

Hi,

In short, I would say it is not worth it. You can probably find a much more powerfull computer for 120£ (used or refurbished) or a little more depending on the specs you want.

Your PC is quite old with Celeron processor and DDR2 RAM. 

What you could do for about 10-15£ (online) is add another stick of 2GB  to the PC for a total of 4GB which would already double the amount.

Hope it helps,

David

[demobuster]

Or you could you could download pc clean master free version and it should speed it up