Best way to speed up PC

tulloch2003 · 31 Mar 2006 at 21:06

Hi all best way to speed up PC for every day use. Faster harddrive or more ram :confused:

Regards Tulloch

AMDX23800+ · 31 Mar 2006 at 21:09

What size and speed is you HDD ? (e.g. 7200rpm 200gb)
IMO its the RAM size and speed , 1Gb PC3200 is great !

benjo · 31 Mar 2006 at 21:10

New CPU? + Mobo :confused:

daz · 31 Mar 2006 at 21:10

Depends what the current spec is... but RAM is always helpful upto around 1GB for multi-tasking, and a hard drive I find helps boot up speeds, but if you have plenty of RAM a hard drive is not going to make that much difference in every day usage.

Best way to keep a PC fast is to be careful about what you install on it, keeping things to the bare minimum equals a super strim speedy PC.

tulloch2003 · 31 Mar 2006 at 21:11

120 gig 5400rpm harddrive.

james.miller · 31 Mar 2006 at 21:12

well that should go for a start lol

tulloch2003 · 31 Mar 2006 at 21:16

Cheers james.miller for that don't make the list to big now LOL.

AMDX23800+ · 31 Mar 2006 at 21:16

lol @ 5400RPM !
Get a 7200RPM HDD, Doesn't really matter what size, maybe 80gb or 100gb ?
Also get 1gb PC3200 ram and your comp should be noticeably faster !

If you have a lot of money i would also get new CPU , MOBO and GFX ! lol

Craig321 · 31 Mar 2006 at 21:20

tulloch2003 said:
120 gig 5400rpm harddrive.

oooh, you should get the cheapest sky+ box & stick that 120gb in there

Then get a nice new raptor or something

tulloch2003 · 31 Mar 2006 at 21:22

The drive is out of my dreambox. I put a 80 gig samsung 7200 in it but full of films now.

Regards Tulloch

tulloch2003 · 31 Mar 2006 at 21:26

Ok happy with CPU and my card for now. So best move for my set-up as is please.

james.miller · 31 Mar 2006 at 21:28

the hard drive, as there's nothign else you want to change.

tulloch2003 · 31 Mar 2006 at 21:33

Ok cheers james.miller. Maxtor 120GB Diamond Max Plus 9 SATA HDD, this any good for now. Can get one for £30

Regards Tulloch

james.miller · 31 Mar 2006 at 21:34

i would go with hitachi seagate or samsung personally, maxtors seem to be dropping like flies lately.

tulloch2003 · 31 Mar 2006 at 21:37

Ok nice one james.miller

Seagate ST3160023AS 160GB SATA this ok then

Regards Tulloch

xirokx · 31 Mar 2006 at 21:48

go for a raptor 10,000rpm :-)

BigDom · 31 Mar 2006 at 22:10

xirokx said:
go for a raptor 10,000rpm

haha waste of money.. the previous 3 options will do just fine

Havana_UK · 31 Mar 2006 at 22:13

That Seagate drive will be fine.

Hav

thefranklin · 31 Mar 2006 at 22:13

Make sure you get a fresh install of windows on it. Software could slow it down worse than any hdd could.

Good suggestions though, they know what they are talking about

Monstermunch · 31 Mar 2006 at 22:17

BigDom said:
haha waste of money.. the previous 3 options will do just fine

I'll 2nd that. Waste of money....Clever marketing. 2 x SATA2 drives = Quicker, cheaper and quieter! LOL