Upgrade RAM and HDD · DIGIT-ARC

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I am currently running a 4 GB Corsair Vengeance stick along with a crappy 250GB HDD.
Need to upgrade both if possible, or atleast the HDD. [STRIKE]No specific requirements as such[/STRIKE], and ofcourse there is no limit to the the amount of HDD space that one can have

Budget is around 5k
PS: I have more than enough PSU power ( Corsair TX850 V2) and Sata 6Gbps ports on my Mobo( Gigabyte Z68a-GD65(g3) )
Since I spend most of my time either playing games on max settings, the HDD has to be somewhat performance oriented

Thanks

4 GB RAM is enough unless you are doing something demanding like rendering or working with multiple VMs. For HDD, you can get a 2 TB HDD for ~5k.

that RAM stick is good enough. get a 2TB WD Green for 5.5k.

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Still I am seeing a LOT of pagefile read writes on my system, so much that many times games are lagging because of that, and overall performance of the PC is also being affected. So maybe more RAM is needed?

4 GB RAM is not ample these days, My PC starts to lag when I open 25+ tabs in Waterfox.(Windows 7 Ultimate x64)

Get Wd blue or green at 5k approx. And get ram stick later on.

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So which among WD green or blue is better? The green seems to be sort of ECO-friendly thingy, does it reduce noise and temps at cost of performance? If not, then i'm going to get it as it's cheaper than Blue, atleast on flipkart

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Blue is better because it is running @ 7200rpm compared to 5400rpm of green

Get WD Blue 1TB and with rest of the money get 2GB ddr3 ram.

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Sorry for the ignorance, but would I need a similar stick of 4GB(ie Corsair Vengeance) in RAM slot 3 (current 4GB stick is in RAM slot 1) to enable dual channel?
And does the brand/size of RAM matter for that?

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Ordered WD Blue 1TB and Corsair Vengeance 4GB for a total of 6950 from Snapdeal

A bit more than what I wanted to spend, but this should help alleviate the sissues I am having