Help to speed up an old system (old skool)

DisrupTor75

DisrupTor75

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Hi guys, while im currently waiting for my pennies to mount up so i can grab an i5 gaming machine i am using an old Advent pc with a p4, 1 gig mem and, the only exotic thing in here, a 6600gt (128mb agp)

Now i know a miracle with this machine is probably unlikely, but what im looking for is any ideas on how to give this machine a speed increase (if possible)

Heres some screenies taken from CPU-Z / Everest
any ideas will be appreciated, thank you :)

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Thanks guys
 
Speed increace in gaming or just general windows/apps - it would certainly benefit from another gig of ram... should make XP a bit snapier for general use.

Other than that I wouldnt throw any more cash at it.
 
mattyfez said:
Speed increace in gaming or just general windows/apps - it would certainly benefit from another gig of ram... should make XP a bit snapier for general use.
Other than that I wouldnt throw any more cash at it.
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For gaming mainly, it runs cod4 on lowest settings but its has this infuriating little pause every few seconds, kind of like having lag. apps seem ok with it, some things take a good while to load but that's expected with a sys this age i suppose :(

As soon as i get to around end of jan - mid feb ill have enough for a proper build and be able to put this back in the cupboard i found it in :)

mp260767 said:
have you tried tidying up what starts on boot up and the services that are running ?
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yeah have reduced the startup to only the essentials, nothing 3rd party boots with it. tried cleaning the registry, general tidy-ups, removing unwanted apps and so on. and while i can get a little speed out of windows itself i dont think i can push it any further that way, possibly OC'ing the gfx or cpu seems, to my mind, the main way of getting anything more out of this.
 
Thanks guys ill try that :)

would an overclock of either gfx card or cpu be out of the question? it is on a stock intel cooler though? but temps are fine at present levels, high 30's to mid 40's under load
 
DisrupTor75 said:
would an overclock of either gfx card or cpu be out of the question? it is on a stock intel cooler though? but temps are fine at present levels, high 30's to mid 40's under load
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You should be able to get away with a mild overclock on your CPU but nothing too hefty and you wouldn't nitice a massive difference really. I'm not too sure about a GPU overclock because i have never really looked into that. tbh though, i would suggest just sticking with it until you have the money to buy a new system, although, like a few others have said, another stick of RAM wouldn't hurt
 
Get a newer, faster hard drive which you can then transfer to the new machine when you get it. That might be the source of your stuttering problem, especially if you've never changed the drive.

Other than that, format reinstall of windows OR windows 7 retail, which you can then use on the new machine. Not that it'd be faster, but it'd be something to play with until then.

Don't waste any money on old parts though.
 
Oh noes you went to pisy world! :D I've had the displeasure of using something similar in a friends house. I'd suggest a format and reinstall of windows, this is more than likely your stuttering problems.

The disable all the services you don't need, and certainly another gig of ram would be an improvement try flea bay.
 
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