Need help with an old system

Vantis · 21 Oct 2011 at 17:18

My gf has an oldschool pc that is reeeeealy slow, i can even type this message faster than the pc can show me what i type, she wants it upgraded so youtube videos load and web sites take less than 5 mins to load. This is the amazing spec

Intel E2140 Pentium Dual Core Socket 775 2x1.60GHz
448mb of ram
75gig hdd

Could the ram be upgraded to make it a bit faster?
no idea how to find out the motherboard

i told her to get a new pc, she wont listen

Cheers

Vantis · 21 Oct 2011 at 17:30

ok thanks

the mobo is

P5VD2-MX SE
Socket 775 for Intel Core 2 Dual / Pentium D / Pentium 4 / Celeron
- 2 x DIMM, max. 2 GB, DDR2 533/400, Non-ECC, un-buffered memory
- ALC660 6-ch Audio
- RTL 8201C 10/100 LAN controller
- 8 x USB 2.0
- 2 x SATA support RAID 0,1,JBOD

Can i still buy that ram anywhere? im cluless about pcs really

Vantis · 21 Oct 2011 at 17:42

Its had a re-install... but i have found 1gb ddr2 533 ram for 10 quid a stick

Vantis · 21 Oct 2011 at 22:29

ok cheers. ill go for the ram and cheap gpu if i can find one

Vantis · 22 Oct 2011 at 00:04

20 gig of 75 is used up, i will try the ram first and see how that works out, then go with a gpu, if all that doesnt work then ill tell her to get a decent gaming pc worth about 1k so i can play games when im there

Cheers

Vantis · 23 Oct 2011 at 16:32

Cheers all

i will go for the ram first and then gpu

Vantis · 23 Oct 2011 at 17:05

I really have no idea on overclocking

only started looking into pcs about 3 weeks ago. Im also looking at pc builds for 600 quid for gaming