vincebagna opened this issue on Mar 31, 2007 · 68 posts
svdl posted Sat, 31 March 2007 at 10:31 AM
Your actual memory is 512 MB, but 64 MB is used by the onboard graphics chip.
The Sempron 3000+ is about the fastest CPU that fits in your mainboard. No use upgrading the CPU.
Add another bank of 512 MB memory, maybe even 1 GB, and add a decent nVidia graphics card. A 7300 is fairly OK, a 7600GT is better, and not overly expensive.
Your PC will not be the fastest on the block, but the upgrades we're talking about here are not very expensive (512 MB should be around € 50. a 7600 GT around € 100), and it will definitely improve the general performance of the machine.
If you want significantly more performance, you'll need a new PC. The best value for money are PCs based on the Intel Core 2 Duo processors, you should be able to get an E6400 machine, with a good graphics card, 2 GB of RAM and a large fast disk for around € 800,-
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