For the most part, despite my m/b being some 11 years old, my system runs fine. The one glitch is that recently, I’ve been running out of RAM, even though I’m not aware of any changes in the programs I use..
My m/b, a Gigabyte GA-H61M-S1, has a maximum capacity of 16GB, which is what I have.
So I’m looking for suggestions on a new m/b and cpu, because I don’t even know how to research this.
My needs are actually fairly simple. I don’t play games or do any graphics work. I’m running out of memory because by the time Windows and all that it loads and all my startup programs are loaded, I’m already down to about 8GB free. I do one thing that (Bob, if you’re reading this, I know you’re not in favor of) cuts down free RAM even more, which is to have a lot of open tabs in my browser. It’s covenient and worth the expense of upgrading.
The programs I use most are Firefox, Thunderbird, VLC, Jdownloader, SyncBackFree and LibreOffice.
If I’ve overlooked anything, please point it out and I’ll provide the requested information.
It’s very possible that I don’t even need a new cpu. If there’s a modern m/b with a capacity of 32GB of RAM and can take an LGA1155 cpu, then I can use my Intel G2030.