Upgrading my desktop
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Upgrading my desktop
I use my Toshiba Satelite laptop 99% of the time, but I have an old desktop that Im going to upgrade. It has a 2.2 celeron processor, Win xp, small 16" crt monitor, 1G (DDR pc2700) of ram, and 250G hard drive. I bought a new 19" widescreen monitor (only $18 from a local recycling shop) and I bought another stick of 1G DDR PC3200 memory off Crucial.com. It was kind of slow with just 1G in it, so by adding the 2nd stick, will I see any kind of better performance? I'll probably use the computer mainly just for surfing the net and maybe some graphic stuff once in awhile.
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You should notice an increase in speed.... You'd be at 1/2 of the minimum requirements for modern computers. Win7 recommends 4gigs of memory. Ubuntu 11.04 recommends 2 gigs. WindowsXP is a 11 year old Operating System. You should look at buying ALOT more then an extra gig of memory.
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sounds like a pretty old machine, but the bump in memory will yield a decent performance boost.
my wife uses my 6+ yr old dell laptop with a 1.5ghz celeron and 1GB of ram and runs photoshop plenty fine.
if you are just going to use it for mild stuff like surfing the net and some mild-medium photoshop stuff, you should be plenty fine. wont be as fast as a new core i5 and 8GB of ram, but will not be bad.
my wife uses my 6+ yr old dell laptop with a 1.5ghz celeron and 1GB of ram and runs photoshop plenty fine.
if you are just going to use it for mild stuff like surfing the net and some mild-medium photoshop stuff, you should be plenty fine. wont be as fast as a new core i5 and 8GB of ram, but will not be bad.
