Legacy ram advice with itunes

[Syd]

Morning
Quick bit of advice needed please.
Running my 2nd machine which has vista 64 sp2 with a msi P35 mobo E8400, 4gb ddr800 nvidia 8600gt and hdds. The machine does not get heavy use, in fact its main role is my itunes machine - about 200gb of music and a bit of video. Reason for the post is that itunes is hideously slow and often locks up, causing me to have to restart itunes frequently - do you think that putting another 4gb ram would help ?

Can't see it's gpu or cpu related and the machine is fine otherwise. I could stick the folder on an ssd, but that does seem a bit extravagent !!!!

Any advice gratefully received

[Terbinator]

Morning
Quick bit of advice needed please.
Running my 2nd machine which has vista 64 sp2 with a msi P35 mobo E8400, 4gb ddr800 nvidia 8600gt and hdds. The machine does not get heavy use, in fact its main role is my itunes machine - about 200gb of music and a bit of video. Reason for the post is that itunes is hideously slow and often locks up, causing me to have to restart itunes frequently - do you think that putting another 4gb ram would help ?

Can't see it's gpu or cpu related and the machine is fine otherwise. I could stick the folder on an ssd, but that does seem a bit extravagent !!!!

Any advice gratefully received

I'm not trying to cause a flame war or anything but it wouldn't surprise me if iTunes was the issue itself. Some extra RAM can't help but i don't think it will solve your problem.

[scaryjim]

Indeed, an E8400 + 4GB DDR2 800 would still be a very good base for a gaming machine. Sounds like the problem is software (*ahem*iTunes*ahem*), not hardware, related...

Could be worth uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes perhaps? Or at the extreme, backup all your music collection then reinstall the computer completely?

[shaithis]

There is no way iTunes should need 4GB+ RAM and/or an SSD to manage that library!

Have you had a look in task manager/ resource manager to see what's happening when itunes goes slow/stops responding?

[Syd]

Thanks for the sanity check chaps, i will look further into what else is happening when it crashes !!

[Samwood]

Might be worth checking your HDDs performance, with something like: http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads...k%20v2.46.html

Storage performance can heavily affect iTunes in my experience.