Dell Studio slowing down

mbish01

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Jul 24, 2016
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Dell Studio 1737, T4200 dual-core 2.00gHz, 3gb RAM. Lately has been running more slowly, seems to be hotter as well . Fans OK. Would an upgrade to the CPU and/or maxing the RAM help or is this just "old age"?