12G of RAM on old CPU with low performance. Suggestions?

[giorgosh]

I'm runnning Win 7 Pro 64bit on an ADM A6 -5400K with Radeon HD 3.6G and got 12G of installed RAM. I also got a 60G SSD where all OS files are installed and got a second drive where all applications are being installed. I recently added an upgrade to my RAM and increased it to 12G (was 6) however i have not seen much increase in performance. To be more precise i often notice in task manager the CPU graph to limit up while memory remains under 50% (~4G of use). I had disabled pagefile but with not much success and now re-enabled it. Is there any suggestion from you in order to take advantage more of my new memory or i should definately replace my CPU?
PS Its my work PC, mainly run Office Apps, no games

 

[Mr5oh]

More RAM does not equal more performance. Your PC was not using all the RAM you had, so adding more really did nothing. That's pretty normal actually. Very rarely do most PCs need more than 8 GB really. Even then most would be fine with 4 GB.

 

[Nuwan Fernando]

Hmmm.. it seems it's not being used even as a cache. It might be the CPU. But if you want, you can use it as a RAM drive or RAM cache to speed up certain programs.

http://blog.laptopmag.com/faster-than-an-ssd-how-to-turn-extra-memory-into-a-ram-disk

 

[thetechy]

Replace CPU. RAM alone cannot do any good.

 

[herrwizo]

Your CPU is holding you back severely in performance (in single thread terms). Any Intel i3, even as low as Pentium G3258 would be a hefty improvement.

A suggestion would also be to get a bigger SSD and install both system and apps to it: your apps are currently loading from mechanical disk, and you don't see real benefits of an SSD apart from system booting.