Giving up on 5+ year old desktop

[injustice]

Originally Posted by kirbenvost

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

That's better than my PC and I'm still using it. XD

Haha click here.

[kirbenvost]

Oh, snap. Yeah, that.

[injustice]

I can't even control the volume on it now, nothing windows related is properly running. I can turn it on and run CBR and that's it.

[kirbenvost]

Dang. Well, good luck finding a new one!

[injustice]

Ok so my parents just bought my 10 year old sister a new laptop, and they gave me hers.

HP Pavilion zv5000
69GB HD (not a big deal to me, getting an external with a TB for christmas)
Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.20GHz
383MB RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon 9000/9100 IGP
And it works!!

No idea what any of that means by the way. Anyone have any suggestions on how to improve upon my machine without breaking the bank?

[kirbenvost]

Solution presents itself. Nice!

Get way more RAM to start off, that should help immensely. Other than the somewhat small HD, it sounds decent to me.

[injustice]

I'm not that computer savvy, so I'm not even sure where to look for ram or how I'd go about installing it. Another thing, is ram the same thing as memory?

[kirbenvost]

Yes, it's the same as memory. If you're not computer savvy, it's probably best to leave the installation to a pro. Just don't go to Best Buy or some crappy place like that.

[A Paperback Hero]

Of course an older machine running a P4 processor might have motherboard that isnt rated to go very high with ram. Maybe 1 gig to 1.5 at the most. Also, with a machine that old odds are you a looking back before a lot of the current memory being sold and its going to be hard to find it at a retailer. You may have to look at used memory to fill the gap.

Being that its a laptop, odds are that your only real room for improvement will be RAM.

[Crisium]

RAM information:

http://www.insidemylaptop.com/upgrad...eries-laptops/

At least get 2 x 512MB sticks.