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Posted - 2011.12.21 23:50:00 -
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^^ Excellent comments from above poster. The 'net is full of people that tell you what they think you should buy, not what you actually need.
Torskelrak wrote:Hi Guys/Girls,
I really dont have much money at the moment with having a little baby girl/getting married and moving house all in the space of a few months. So was wondering what I could possibly buy cheaply to upgrade my system. Im rubbish with Pc's
Vista Home Premium (SP2)
Intel 2 Quad Core Q6600 @2.40GHz
RAM - 4GB
32-Bit OS
According to the Performance Test I get around 5.5, which is probably bad but to be honest the PC is a few years old and Life at the moment aint giving me much luck on the Money side ; )
Any help would be gratefully apprieciated,
Torsk
Processor - 5.9
RAM 5.5
Graphics 5.9
Gaming Graphics 5.9
Primary Hard Disk 5.7
The performance test always quotes the lowest as your performance, but you don't need more than 4 GB of RAM for most things, so this method is flawed.
You have an excellent CPU, even though it is old.
You have more RAM than you will need in normal use.
Your hard disk is the same speed as mine and will only effect load speeds. Plus, it's bad time to buy a hard disk.
Your graphics looks good enough for normal game play, but this is the area you could improve if you bought an older, higher specification graphics card off Ebay. ATI 5870, for example.
That setup is fine for Eve and most other things, except the latest 3D games. Vista may have been a dog when it first came out, but its close enough to Windows 7 for most users that paying to upgrade needs a good reason if you care about the cost.
If you are short of cash there is no point upgrading 'for the sake of it', which is what you seem to imply. I'd like to upgrade my 7 year old Ford Focus that has140,000 miles on the clock for a brand new BMW, but I can't afford one and don't need one, so I won't.
One of the best ways to make an old PC faster is to get the registry cleaned up and remove all the clutter that starts with the PC. Alternatively, if you have a problem with your PC, get the problem fixed.
Finally, one of the easiest ways to speed up a Windows PC after a few years is to do a clean install of the operating system. |