So I finally installed my ram. Thank you guys for the help! But I don't feel as if my computer is running much faster. Especially in regards to video editing. (which is the reason I got more ram in the first place) it still gets sluggish during playback. I always thought the RAM would make it run smoother which it did in the beginning but maybe that was just me thinking it was smoother. Do I need a Solid State Drive instead? My video card is decent. What else is there to do?
Things such as video editing,video encodings and so on...require strong processor in order to work faster and not just RAM memory.Even if you have 32 GB of RAM it will not make a difference if your processor is not strong enough since the processor chip is the one who is executing all the calculations needed for a specific event such as loading graphics which does many calculations in order to show in the right dimensions and so on...
RAM is just used to store needed program objects and other things which are then used (read from) for the specified purposes according to needs.But it's definetely faster when those objects and other things are read from that RAM memory rather than the PF from the HDD which is a lot slower considering that the HDD plate niddle head IS very fast,but not even close as RAM.Imagine RAM as SSD and HDD as HDD.
Typical usage scenario (example) 1:
GAME CRASHES SO OFTEN AND HDD LED IS LIGHTING SO OFTEN.
---> Usually in this case more RAM memory is required,but other things can be the cause too.
Typical usage scenario (example) 2:
GAME LAGS SO OFTEN.
---> Usually in this case stronger processor chip is required,but other things can be the cause too.
Typical usage scenario (example) 3:
GAME'S MOVEMENTS ARE VERY SLOW.
---> Usually in this case stronger graphic card chip is required,but other things can be the cause too.
Typical usage scenario (example) 4:
GAME DATA IS LOADING VERY SLOW,BUT ALL THE HARDWARE COMPONENTS ARE STRONG MORE THAN IT IS EVEN NECCESSARY.
---> Usually in this case the cause is an old,slow or damaged/defective or even dying hard disk drive and should be replaced with the newer and better one or even solid state drive,but it is not really neccessary.Good HDD will do just fine.
Typical usage scenario (example) 5:
GAME IS NOT WORKING AS IT SHOULD (such as it crashes,lags,runs slow,loading slow and so on...),BUT ALL THE HARDWARE COMPONENTS ARE STRONG MORE THAN IT IS EVEN NECCESSARY AND HDD/SSD IS BRAND NEW AND WORKING PROPERLY.
---> Usually in this case the cause is software related and not hardware related.Such as: corrupted OS data,corrupted other data such as game data,corrupted registry data,viruses,malicious programs,too many running foreground or/and background programs and so on...
You mentioned you have problems with the video playback.In this case SSD might help since jumping from one part of the video to other parts of the video while watching it IS slower on HDD than it is on SSD.
I also agree with SmileMan who said that RAM and processor is the reason.Because they really are weak.256 MB of RAM memory is not enough these days.Bare minimum even for me is 512 MB of RAM.
And 1.01 ghz is also not enough these days especially if it's old solo processor with not so good optimizations.
Cheers!
. Then look back on your pc and do same with other 2 parts of the bench. Plz post your results in an image 
