May 16, 201115 yr 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
May 16, 201115 yr 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.
May 16, 201115 yr Author 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
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