The reason for this apparent discrepancy is not that hard to explain. Memory is quick. This results in a phenomenon known technically as 'disk thrashing'. If your PC appears to have ground to a halt, but the hard disk activity light is still on, the chances are that this is what's happening. Not if you want to be taken seriously, anyway.
Memory comes in all sorts of shapes, sizes, configurations, speeds and capacities.
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