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Hi guys,
my wife's PC has started grinding to a halt since I put Vista Ultimate on. Going back to XP is not an option, so don't there.
PC spec:
Athlon XP 2GHz, I think it's an XP 2600
2Gb DDR ram
GeForce4 MX440 AGP 8x card
Windows Vista Experience scores:
Processor 3.4
RAM 3.5
Graphics 1.9
Gaming graphics 1.0
Primary Hard Disk 5.3
The PC is used purely for Microsoft Office applications, some very basic picture editing in PSP, general web browsing etc. No gaming - that's what my rig is for Nothing too taxing.
The trouble is that it takes an age to load up, and she hasn't got too many apps on startup. It also crawls when opening phots into Powerpoint and trying to resize and move around the screen.
All things point to the graphics card, although I'm sure it's chugging on calculation based applications too. However, do I spend £30-£40 on a new one and hope that it sorts it out, or should I bite the bullet and upgrade the whole thing - CPU, motherboard with onboard graphics & sound and RAM? I know that I can get something like:
Abit A-N78HD
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4600+ 2.40GHz (Socket AM2)
2Gb DDR2
for around £130. £90 more than a new AGP card, but I'm sure her system would fly.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
Jed.
EDIT - just been told of another slowdown issue. Sometimes when she starts typing it seems to freeze for a while and then the letters catch up on the screen. Surely this can't be just a graphics card issue?
Also bear in mind that this needs to be resolved quickly as my wife is going nuts and that obviously means that I'm feeling the pain too
my wife's PC has started grinding to a halt since I put Vista Ultimate on. Going back to XP is not an option, so don't there.
PC spec:
Athlon XP 2GHz, I think it's an XP 2600
2Gb DDR ram
GeForce4 MX440 AGP 8x card
Windows Vista Experience scores:
Processor 3.4
RAM 3.5
Graphics 1.9
Gaming graphics 1.0
Primary Hard Disk 5.3
The PC is used purely for Microsoft Office applications, some very basic picture editing in PSP, general web browsing etc. No gaming - that's what my rig is for
Nothing too taxing.The trouble is that it takes an age to load up, and she hasn't got too many apps on startup. It also crawls when opening phots into Powerpoint and trying to resize and move around the screen.
All things point to the graphics card, although I'm sure it's chugging on calculation based applications too. However, do I spend £30-£40 on a new one and hope that it sorts it out, or should I bite the bullet and upgrade the whole thing - CPU, motherboard with onboard graphics & sound and RAM? I know that I can get something like:
Abit A-N78HD
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4600+ 2.40GHz (Socket AM2)
2Gb DDR2
for around £130. £90 more than a new AGP card, but I'm sure her system would fly.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
Jed.
EDIT - just been told of another slowdown issue. Sometimes when she starts typing it seems to freeze for a while and then the letters catch up on the screen. Surely this can't be just a graphics card issue?
Also bear in mind that this needs to be resolved quickly as my wife is going nuts and that obviously means that I'm feeling the pain too
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