Any advice welcome

Chris M

Chris M

Chris M

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I have been advised by my brother that here is a good place to seek advice - he used it and has been v. pleased. I am thinking of upgrading my system which is fairly basic. I mainly use it for the internet, work (documents, presentations etc) as well as pictures and video. My current spec is as follows :

Processor - AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+

Mother Board - K8V-MX
• ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

Hard Drive - Maxtor 6 Y200M0 SCSI Disk Device
• Size: 204GB

DVD and CD Drive - SONY DVD RW DW-D22A + VOBID InstantDrive CD

Video Card - VIA/S3G UniChromeII Graphics, Video RAM: 64 MB

Sound Card - Realtek AC 97 Audio for VIA R Audio Controller

Modem - Softk56 Data Fax Voice Speakerphone CARP

Network Card –
VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter
VIA OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
VIA OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller

System RAM – x2 256 MB, 8VDDT3264AG-40BG4

Thanks for your time.
 
Hi

Some parts of that system really let it down, for example the cpu is more than adequate for internet surfing etc but the onboard graphics can prove to be rather jerky and slow especially with heavily laden flash pages.

Another thing i have noticed is your only using a 56k modem, have you thought about upgrading to a broadband connection of some form such as aDSL or Cable?

Mike
 
Welcome to the forums. I'd agree with TheNuju, upgrading the graphics would be helpful, you are limited to AGP though, depending on exactly what you want to do something like a 9800pro might be suitable, it should also be pretty cheap secondhand now (~£30-35).

An upgrade to 1gb Ram will help, however because your motherboard only has 2 Ram slots that means replacing one of them with any other PC3200 DDR module and because socket 754 doesn't support dual channel mode it doesn't matter whether the sticks match so just pick any PC3200 DDR Ram, either a 512mb module or 1gb, whatever is available.

Upgrading to broadband would also speed up your internet usage obviously but that presupposes that you live in an area that can receive it.

If none of these ideas appeal or you are going to be majorly changing your usage patterns then post a budget and no doubt someone will be able to help you further. :)
 
Thanks for the prompt replies!

I currently have a broadband connection and have a budjet currently of around £200, though this could be pushed a little.

Thanks again
 
Hi

If you have a broadband connection it would be worth removing the 56k modem from the machine as this is taking up resources such as IRQ's on the machine, its not much but you never know!

Personally for that budget id probably go for these upgrades (in this order)

1. Graphics (upgrade from the current to a new agp card)
2. Memory (change to 1gb)

Mike
 
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