paulr

Compaq Presario
1mhz AMD Duron
256RAM
20Gig HD.
DVD-r writer

Dont play games,just the normal stuff.

Basically whats the most cost effective way to spend under £100 to increase the speed of my pc(opening up apps,start up etc).
1800 Athalon for £50?

mr-white

lol you mean 1ghz duron

replace the cpu (xp2500 £65) and add another 256mb of memory

MW

[Edited by mr-white - 10/31/2003 7:17:52 PM]

kamikaze

good chance ure limited to a cpu of 2400xp
but not sure it depends on ure motherboard

256 ram is fine i rekon
512 only useful for games

a new hard drive can do wonders for speed. just get a 7200rpm ata100 drive for 40 quid. assuming ure motherboard supports ata100

mr-white

if you like multi-tasking 512 is always good. if your gonna upgrade the cpu you may aswell do the memory as well, as it will only act as a bottle neck.

yeah you might want to check your motherboards capabilities first before you upgrade. you may just get away with flashing your bios

MW

paulr

Hard Drive Interface Type IDE / EIDE, Ultra DMA/ATA-66

Thats what i have atm.How do i check my motherboard capabilities,i'm no expert on computers.

kamikaze

need to find out what ure mb is first
either it wil be in the manual or you could open it up

paulr

Cheers kamikaze...will do.

paulr

Okay....fitted a new faster hard drive,60 gb,first impressions are good.

As for the CPU,my motherboard bus speed is only 100hz.Apparently all amd processors are now 133 hz.