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I upgraded RAM on my old ThinkPad T400 from 4GB to 8GB. Is it possible that my laptop slow down because of additional RAM?
It is quite old laptop. Specs: Intel Core2Duo P8600 2,4GHz SSD Samsung Evo 256GB Originally 2GB RAM, than 2x2GB and now 2x4GB Win 7 Pro 64-bit
What is happening when I talk about "slow down"? Sometimes it just freezes for some time even when I just browse web. When I look to Windows Task Manager -> Performance Ram is just on maybe 3-4GB used but CPU is at 100% usage. I also think that my laptop is quite hotter then before but it is maybe just false sense or fan is poluted with dust or it is just warm now outside.
Is it possible that now when I finally have enough memory my old CPU isn't able to process so much data?
Thanks for any advance.
Personally I think this is abnormal. More RAM should never decrease performance. – guest-vm – 2016-07-26T14:28:30.847
@guest It is quite strange but this thought occured to me just because this - when system needed to store some data in memory to disk, so CPU maybe has enough time to process data because there was less data in memory. But when there is enough memory now, maybe processor can't handle it. But probably it is just bulls**t because processor never handle all data in memory at one time. Maybe clean reinstall of windows will help for some time. – Gondil – 2016-07-26T18:51:24.470
1That does sound illogical to me. ==== For sake of diagnosis, if you revert back to your 2x2GB, would the slowdown be gone? I mean, it could be that the hardware doesn't play well with the 2x4GB, for whatever reason, even though a RAM upgrade in general should not hurt performance. – guest-vm – 2016-07-27T08:28:30.913