Help With Pc

[juewanderer]

My old pc finally met with a lump hammer last week ..(motherboard went ) i have been given a computer off a friend..i had a re-store done on it and basically it's a sack of sh*te...I'm wondering based on the spec that i'm about to post whether to get the lump hammer out again or whether to anything can be done to speed it up ??

 

Operating System

MS Windows XP Professional 32-bit SP3

CPU

AMD Athlon XP

AMD Athlon XP

Barton 0.13um Technology

RAM

1.0GB Dual-Channel DDR @ 198MHz (3-3-3-

Motherboard

Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. nVidia-nForce2 (Socket A) 27 ?C

Graphics

Default Monitor (1024x768@60Hz)

128MB RADEON 9000 Family (Microsoft Corporation) (Hercules)

128MB RADEON 9000 SEC Family (Microsoft Corporation) (Hercules)

CrossFire Disabled

Hard Drives

117GB Western Digital WDC WD1200JB-75CRA0 (PATA)

Optical Drives

DVDRW IDE1008

PHILIPS DVDR1668L1

Audio

Realtek AC'97 Audio

[ZiggyStardust]

It will work. very very slowly.

 

Extra RAM would help (SP3 kills machines with a gig or less), but its good money after bad.

 

You should be fine for email & browsing, but anything above that, forget it.

 

 

 

 

 

[juewanderer]

It will work. very very slowly.

 

Extra RAM would help (SP3 kills machines with a gig or less), but its good money after bad.

 

You should be fine for email & browsing, but anything above that, forget it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's struggling to browse properly to be quite honest .. i may ask about extra ram though... Thanks anyway

[juewanderer]

i've just asked about extra ram ...it's around ?25 so i may do that

[liamBWFC]

Dont think it is worth upgrading to be honest.

 

CPU on the machine is very poor.