Soldato
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Hi. Been lent a desktop computer to sort out, as owner complaining of it going slow.
Motherboard
DFI LANparty UT nF3 250GB
CPU
Socket 754 MOBILE AMD Athlon 64 Processor 4000+ running at 800 Mhz
Memory
3 sticks-
1 x 512mb PC4000 DDR SDRAM (250 Mhz)
2 x 1GB PC3200 (200 Mhz)
Graphics Card
ATI Radeon HD 3650
OS: Win 7 32 bit. WAS XP!
Now I have reinstalled the OS.
But noticed ‘Windows Experience index’ as follows
Processor 1.6
Memory (RAM) 2.6
Graphics 3.6
Gaming graphics 5.7
Primary Hard Drive 5.9
The owner complained of it running slow. He had it ‘repaired’ a few months ago buy some little back street shop.
But looking at everything. To me it appears that there is a LAPTOP socket 754 athlon CPU in this Desktop.
Do you think that is why it is running slow?
Bear in mind this computer was built circa 2006.
Is there any other CPU that would fit into this set up and run faster etc.
Or would he be better of buying a new Motherboard, CPU and Memory ?
I am just not sure as socket 754 is quite old now.
Since putting on Win 7 last night. PC is working well. Starts quickly and everything is ok. Just that the CPU is just running at 803 Mhz so won't be able to do much on it.
Thank you.
Motherboard
DFI LANparty UT nF3 250GB
CPU
Socket 754 MOBILE AMD Athlon 64 Processor 4000+ running at 800 Mhz
Memory
3 sticks-
1 x 512mb PC4000 DDR SDRAM (250 Mhz)
2 x 1GB PC3200 (200 Mhz)
Graphics Card
ATI Radeon HD 3650
OS: Win 7 32 bit. WAS XP!
Now I have reinstalled the OS.
But noticed ‘Windows Experience index’ as follows
Processor 1.6
Memory (RAM) 2.6
Graphics 3.6
Gaming graphics 5.7
Primary Hard Drive 5.9
The owner complained of it running slow. He had it ‘repaired’ a few months ago buy some little back street shop.
But looking at everything. To me it appears that there is a LAPTOP socket 754 athlon CPU in this Desktop.
Do you think that is why it is running slow?
Bear in mind this computer was built circa 2006.
Is there any other CPU that would fit into this set up and run faster etc.
Or would he be better of buying a new Motherboard, CPU and Memory ?
I am just not sure as socket 754 is quite old now.
Since putting on Win 7 last night. PC is working well. Starts quickly and everything is ok. Just that the CPU is just running at 803 Mhz so won't be able to do much on it.
Thank you.
