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 Aug 2, 2005 - 5:35 PM
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anyone have any ideas on how to make my computer any faster. I have a Dell Dimension 4400. its pretty old. i dont want anything to big, but stuff that will give it that extra oomph.
1.8Ghz 512 MB DDR SDRAM Nvidia GeForce3 Ti 200 80 GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA Hard Drive Microsoft Windows XP Home Thankey |
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Aug 2, 2005 - 5:43 PM
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QUOTE(Celicaca @ Aug 2, 2005 - 2:35 PM) anyone have any ideas on how to make my computer any faster. I have a Dell Dimension 4400. its pretty old. i dont want anything to big, but stuff that will give it that extra oomph. 1.8Ghz 512 MB DDR SDRAM Nvidia GeForce3 Ti 200 80 GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA Hard Drive Microsoft Windows XP Home Thankey [right][snapback]319635[/snapback][/right] #1: Windows. Either install XP Corporate or Linux if you feel daring. Look at sites and magazines about how to tweak windows to perform better (i.e. you can disable most of the processes that can be viewed under MyComputer->Manage). The bottleneck for any PC nowadays is software, not hardware. Windows especially, and anything you install will eat away at your performance. More ram or storage won't help you much. Edit: You can consider setting up a RAID 0. It'll parallelize your hard drive access and thereby improve performance. What do you use your computer for? This post has been edited by mr_dude: Aug 2, 2005 - 5:46 PM --------------------  |
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Aug 2, 2005 - 6:04 PM
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Enthusiast Joined Feb 3, '04 From North Carolina Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
QUOTE(mr_dude @ Aug 2, 2005 - 10:43 PM) QUOTE(Celicaca @ Aug 2, 2005 - 2:35 PM) anyone have any ideas on how to make my computer any faster. I have a Dell Dimension 4400. its pretty old. i dont want anything to big, but stuff that will give it that extra oomph. 1.8Ghz 512 MB DDR SDRAM Nvidia GeForce3 Ti 200 80 GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA Hard Drive Microsoft Windows XP Home Thankey [right][snapback]319635[/snapback][/right] What do you use your computer for? [right][snapback]319642[/snapback][/right] nowadays i just browse and what not, but im going to college soon and figure ill get into playing more computer games  basically, i guess i just want some programs you guys recommend to cleanse my computer of useless stuff and enhance performance and maybe get some basic hardware that is not too expensive that will help...for now |
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Celicaca faster computer Aug 2, 2005 - 5:35 PM
Digndoug More ram will help if its slow when your multi tas... Aug 2, 2005 - 5:49 PM mr_dude Well if you don't already, definitely get Fire... Aug 2, 2005 - 6:25 PM
Celicaca QUOTE(mr_dude @ Aug 2, 2005 - 11:25 PM)Well i... Aug 2, 2005 - 6:41 PM mr_dude Yup. You can Google them too. The problem is tha... Aug 2, 2005 - 6:54 PM Celicaca QUOTE(mr_dude @ Aug 2, 2005 - 11:54 PM)To tel... Aug 2, 2005 - 7:23 PM lagos defrag your hard drive too
the 300megs of ram sp... Aug 2, 2005 - 7:34 PM Celicaca QUOTE(lagos @ Aug 3, 2005 - 12:34 AM)defrag y... Aug 2, 2005 - 7:42 PM Digndoug QUOTE(lagos @ Aug 2, 2005 - 7:34 PM)defrag yo... Aug 2, 2005 - 7:41 PM mr_dude I wager Norton is at least half of your memory usa... Aug 2, 2005 - 7:56 PM celicast3sgte here is the best fix for a slow pc...
1) unplug t... Aug 2, 2005 - 9:42 PM lagos xp is basically the windows2000 32bit kernel with ... Aug 2, 2005 - 10:14 PM jojobombiest Here are some things to try:
go to start>run a... Aug 2, 2005 - 10:35 PM macavely you can store the programs you want in cache ... y... Aug 2, 2005 - 11:11 PM mr_dude QUOTE(celicast3sgte @ Aug 2, 2005 - 6:42 PM)5... Aug 2, 2005 - 11:40 PM rocky2006 http://tweakxp.com/performance_tweaks.aspx
i have... Aug 3, 2005 - 12:10 AM dahoman9 upgrade your video card for gaming.
http://every... Aug 3, 2005 - 7:40 AM Celicaca can someone give me a pix of their list of service... Aug 3, 2005 - 4:50 PM |
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