Pc upgrades & Lightroom 4

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Wasnt sure where to put this but seeing as its more towards the photography side I thought here would be best.

I built my current system about 4yrs ago now and other than a slow down on start up I've not really had any issues with its speed it still runs everything super quick with no need of an clocks.

That was until I upgraded to Lightrooom 4.1 last week now I know there are reports of some lag with the sliders but I'm about 5 clicks of the mouse ahead of the PC and always waiting for it to catch up, cash is a little tight for a couple of months so I was thinking just to double my RAM for now and maybe a small SSD for boot and lightroom in a couple of months, current spec as follows:

Vista 64 Home premium
Intel E8500
Asus Rampage MB
4GB of Corsair RAM
HD4870 1GB gfx card
2x 500gb Seagate Barracuda 32mb HDD 1x boot and 1 x backup

RAM is Corsair CM2x2048-6400C4DHX 800mhz 2.1v 4-4-4-12 was gonna get another identical 4GB but cant find this RAM anywhere?

What would your suggestions be? to speed up Lightroom is the only need for this upgrade.

Thanks
 
Cheers both, concorde I'll rephrase if you dont mind haha 'acceptably quick' would probably be better fitted, as I said I dont notice any slowdown on anything else I use so building a new setup for Lightroom would be insanely difficult to get past the wife lol which order would you upgrade SSD first or memory?
 
Excellent as I suspected thanks, Ive been out of the loop for a while how does the RAM I have hold up is it worth me seeing if I can match what I've got from the bay or buy a fresh 8gb of matching RAM? any reccomendation?
 
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