What part of my pc do I need to fix or upgrade in order to make my pc open programs & surf web faster?

Question

I bought a used pc. & it's way too slow on the web & just running programs. takes 1 to 3 minutes just to open up a program or the web. I ran a recovory. It deleted, & ran a fresh copy of windows xp, so there's not a lot of programs on it. But still too slow. Here's some system specs.
OS Name: Microsoft Windows XP Proffessional
Version: 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
System Manufacturer: Gateway
System Model: "
System Type: X86-based PC
Processor: x86 Family 6 Model 4 Stepping 2 AuthenticAMD ~748 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date: American Megatrends Inc. QAASNP05, 7/23/1999
SMBIOS Version: 2.3
Total Physical Memory: 64.00 MB
Available Physical Memory: 19.68 MB
Total Virtual Memory: 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory: 1.96 GB
Page File Space: 552.93 MB
Disk Drives: QUANTUM FIREBALLct1515
Driver Date: 7/1/2001
Display Adapters: NVIDIA VANTA/VANTA LT
Driver Date: 4/7/2004
DVD/CD-ROM drives: MITSUMI CD-ROM FX4821T!A
Driver Date: 7/1/2001
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
Driver Date: 4/1/2004
Video Codecs: Intel Indeo Video 5.10
Sound Device: Creative AudioPCI (ES1371,ES1373)(WDM)
Adapter RAM: 8.00 MB (8,388,608 bytes)
Modem: Gateway Data Fax Modem
Drive C:
File System: FAT32
Size: 13.96 GB (14,988,222,464 bytes)
Free Space: 11.26 GB (12,088,483,840 bytes)

Thanks if anyone can tell me what I need to upgrade on it to make it run faster. & I know some of you may say it, so I will now. Why not just buy a new one right? Well if I can fix this one, why spend $2500 for one? But thanks again.

Answer 1

I'm sorry, but there is hardly any way of upgrading your PC.



Your CPU is extremely slow and old, and thats why your Internet Browser is going so slow, since new browsers require at least new generation processors with about 1000MHz and new instructions. Your processor is old, slow and really outdated.



Your biggest problem is that you have 64 RAM, which I had at 1999. Windows XP needs at least 256 Ram in order to operate at all without going into slow (swapping hard disk) mode.



There is hardly any chance of finding SD Ram (I asume it is since I have zero informations about your RAM or Motherboard) which you have, because it stopped producting 10 years ago. If you can find SD Ram anywhere, try to buy 256 Ram. It will speed up your PC a bit. If you have DDR ram, then you can get 256 DDR ram in some well equiped PC store.



I'd highly suggest you NOT to upgrade you 1999 PC and buy a New one. New (cheap) PCs are about 400$ and they work really good with Internet, Music, Videos, Images and even games.



Here's something for you: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883114080 its 309$ and all you need to do is get another 100$ for Monitor, and you're good to go with all the stuff you ever wanted to work good and fast.

Answer 2

Upgrading to Windows 7 should fix most of these problems. Windows 7 has a much better operating system and is generally much faster and more efficient at processing information and data. I have personally found Windows Vista to be really slow and painful to have on a computer, and is just a very bad system to have. Spending money on Wondows 7 would be a great investment in my opinion, and it would be well worth your while :).

Answer 3

The processor itself seems quite slow at 748Mhz A lot of processors these days are at least 2.5 times faster. I am not sure exactly how much RAM you have either from your figures but a machine that old probably only has something like 256Mb which is not really enough to run XP properly



Try going to crucial.com and see if they have any RAM upgrades for your machine. The only other possibility that I can think of is a new motherboard and processor

Answer 4

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