The Building of a new computer

lostsoul62

lostsoul62

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I'm going to build a new computer in a couple of hours so I'm running Windows 7 with 4 Gigs of Memory and it's idling at around 2.5 Gigs leaving me with about 1.5 Gigs. I'm thinking of installing 8 Gigs of memory so it should be enough for the next 3 years because I don't want to add memory two years from now. I bought a 2T External Hard Drive with a USB 3 port and I'm going to get the motherboard to handle it alone with the WD Hard Drive (64 meg buffer and at 6 Gigs) the USB 3 is suppose to be around 5 Gigs. Anyway I figure I need these two Hard Drive in sync with one another. I figure with a Quad Processor running at 3+ Gigs should do me for the next 2 years. Also I think going with ESATA which is only 3 Gigs isn't a smart move when I can go with the USB 3. So does anyone know what I might be missing?
 
Upgrading your memory to more than 4 gigabytes likely will not increase your performance at all. What are your current system specifications?

I use two hard drives in my system that way I can easily back up my data. But I also use external hard drives as well.
 
If you are planning to run a 64bit OS, and do video or photo editing 8 gigs would be fine otherwise 4 gb of ram will do you.
 
Like said.
Because it shows to be using 2.5gb doesn't actually mean you have 1.5gb left in the manner you might think. 7 will manage ram usage. When it deems more is needed, it will swap to make more available.
Hdd's don't have the ability to fully use usb 3.0 or eSata speeds. A typical 7200 rpm desktop hard drive has a sustained "disk-to-buffer" data transfer rate up to 1030 Mbits/sec.
 
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