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Answer» Hi You may want to consider adding some RAM. You silly man The word you're looking for is "Graphics Cards", not RAM.If you can produce a valid benchtest report that states that adding a vid card is a more cost effective way to increase performance versus adding RAM then i'll start drinking the kool-aid... Until then.... Quote from: patio on November 03, 2007, 10:36:31 AM If you can produce a valid benchtest report that states that adding a vid card is a more cost effective way to increase performance versus adding RAM then i'll start drinking the kool-aid... For your sake, I hope that's a joke. Quote from: Jess607 on November 04, 2007, 02:45:35 AM Quote from: patio on November 03, 2007, 10:36:31 AMIf you can produce a valid benchtest report that states that adding a vid card is a more cost effective way to increase performance versus adding RAM then i'll start drinking the kool-aid... It's not... Quote from: patio on November 04, 2007, 08:00:27 AM Quote from: Jess607 on November 04, 2007, 02:45:35 AMQuote from: patio on November 03, 2007, 10:36:31 AMIf you can produce a valid benchtest report that states that adding a vid card is a more cost effective way to increase performance versus adding RAM then i'll start drinking the kool-aid... Tsk tsk tsk. Where is Calum when we need him? Have I told you that the graphics card is the only beneficial part of a computer, Patio?I am right here. I'd also like to see some sort of report that supports your side of things, Jess607. I just don't see that a video card would be as beneficial to general performance as a RAM upgrade. And I definitely do not agree with your remark about the graphics card being the only beneficial component of a computer. bjh, when is the computer slow? And did you install all your drivers after the clean install?Are you sure that's not you Track ? ? ?Processors not too bad, I'm assuming... I'm more of an amd fan personally so I don't know much about the pentiums, but 2.4 can't be that bad.. Um. I Would DEFINITELY get a bigger hard drive... Whether you need it or not it would be faster.. your 80 probably oinly has a 2mb cache on it. That's really low.. I have an 80gig and it's a 2mb cache, and I have a 160 and it's an 8mb cache and there's a BIG SPEED difference, and the 160 is much quieter also. (My opinion is western digitals all the way... I refuse to trust my data on ANYTHING else... My experience with WD, I've never had a slow one, they have great data loss prevention built into them, they're quiet.. esp the newer ones [not that i care about that], they're just all around good to me). Also 512 ram is decent, but not great, I use a gig in my DESKTOP and laptop, I have xp pro on both. I don't know how old your motherboard is, find the model number and go to the website and find the manual for it if you can and see if it supports dual CHANNEL ram. if it does, that would be a great step up for you. If you have one 512mb stick in there now get antoher 512 that's just like it if you can and if it's dual channel the memory speed doubles. (or something like that.. I dont' know a lot about it, I just know it makes it faster.) Good luck. ;-) Jay Quote from: patio on November 04, 2007, 10:28:18 AM Are you sure that's not you Track ? ? ? I am honestly not sure exactly what you mean, but since I've been called that before, I am somewhat interested to know why you relate me to this person. Where is he? |
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