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1457384 2019-01-17 13:44:00 In windows 7 I could have gadgets to tell me how much ram and cpu was being used. Now I'm in windows 10 and doing some video editing and would like to know if I need more Ram and a better computer? lostsoul62 (16011)
1457385 2019-01-17 19:01:00 Task Manager/performance will give you a basic overview of CPU/Memory usage

Speccy will give you all the spec's of your comp www.ccleaner.com

Would say if you post your spec's here you would get a few pages of suggestions :)
Lawrence (2987)
1457386 2019-01-17 19:19:00 If you open the Windows Store app you can search for them, OR even better, go the folowing page, click on Install ( on the right) it will open the windows store click on the ones you want.

The free ones are quite basic but may do what you want.Not as "glitzy" as W7's

www.microsoft.com

OR for the Windows 7 Gadgets, download the Gadget pack, just tried it, works well. :)

win7gadgets.com
wainuitech (129)
1457387 2019-01-18 05:25:00 What are your computer specs? chiefnz (545)
1457388 2019-01-18 05:36:00 Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 4 cores/4 threads

This is most likely your bottleneck, though you would probably see a reasonable increase in performance by bumping your memory up to 16GB.

Unless you're ONLY browsing the web and checking email, by recommendation to most people who ask me is 16GB of memory and for the CPU nothing less than a 4 cores/4 threads CPU at a minimum.

I'd hazard a guess that in your case both the current CPU and memory are restrictive. You are unlikely to squeeze much more performance out of the CPU to be fair but increasing memory may give you a slight boost... only just though.

Probably time to upgrade really.

Cheers,
chiefnz (545)
1457389 2019-01-18 05:55:00 Think you may be quoting my CPU/Memory

Don't play games so don't need a $$$ comp,just run a Gigabyte G41m combo DDR3 with a NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

Reminds me of Linus Tech Tips www.youtube.com
Lawrence (2987)
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