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Pig Cat said:hunnymonster said:I would say that there's life in the old girl yet... lots of crudware would accumulate over time and if Mrs PC is downloading copious quantities of shite^H^H^H^H^Hgames from t'internet it'll all be just clogging up the PC...
OK, sounds like it's worth a try. We can't afford to fork out a grand for a while anyway, it would take some saving up. Thanks HM!
I have both mac and pc (pc is work and mac is home). Looking at your pc specs you are using 2 hard drives not a good idea it has to search in 2 places for info and you only have 1gb ram so multi tasking will never be great also being fair your AMD processor is a bit on the old side. But you have to ask yourself what you want to do with it all. if its just surfing the net and playing the odd game then with a bit of tweeking and a few pounds spending on the old girl it could serve you well until you have to money to shell out on a shiney new computer.
A few ideas,
Either get an external HDD (500GB cost me £45.00) and put everything exept your operating system on it, or an internal drive and put everything on it.
Install more ram, DDR ram is cheap and you should have at least 4 ports on the motherboard.
Get some software clean up programs, registry edit (pay), or <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/free-software-downloads/best-free-windows-registry-cleaners/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.online-tech-tips.com/free-so ... -cleaners/</a><!-- m --> (some free ones)
Spybot (free) as Mrs PC has probably got more spyware on there that you can shake a stick at............. :lol:
Defrag the thing regularly.....
I used to build pc's from scratch and I built one of similar specs to yours and gave it to my mate when I got my 1st mac, it still runs well and is in use every day,
I would not bother with win 7 yet, AVOID VISTA LIKE THE PLAGUE, (sorry Vista is crap), XP is an old sold platform that will work with your pc and should do what you want it too.
If I can be of anymore help get in touch,
Aah one last thing...............come over to the dark side, save up for a Mac..... :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
Steve