Originally Posted by
Brar
werd.
Besides the power supply giving out and needing a reformat, this thing is pretty solid despite what my sister does on it
why not try getting a new master Hard drive? sounds like that is the problem
Because my computer is already 6 or 7 years old...just time for a new one. Computers are so cheap now, it's more cost effective for me to get something newer. It's always been slow running lots of apps at the same time, and it's been making noises lately. I'd like something newer that is faster, yet runs cooler and quieter...my current box turns my room into a sauna.
I priced out a cheap dell...ended up coming to $600 w/o monitor.
PROCESSOR Pentium® D Processor 820 with Dual Core Technology (2.80GHz, 800FSB) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows® XP Media Center,CD and Single TV tuner,Remote edit
UPGRADE TO WINDOWS VISTA No Express Upgrade to Windows Vista Selected edit
MEMORY 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 2DIMMs edit
HARD DRIVE 160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™ edit
OPTICAL DRIVE Dual Drives: 16x DVD-ROM Drive + 16x DVD+/-RW edit
MONITOR No Monitor edit
VIDEO CARD Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3000 edit
SOUND Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio edit
For that price, I could get the Emachine I posted above, and still get a 20" widescreen LCD. However, it's a slightly older processor...P4 with Hyperthreading, 3.06ghz, 512 RAM. The Dell has the Core Duo 2.8ghz and 1gb RAM. How much of a difference would there be between those two processor and memory setups? If I upgraded the Emachine to 1gb, would it be close to the Duo in speed?