My in-laws have a compaq sr5633wm and Im trying to speed it up for them without spending a ton of cash. Specs here http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01535270&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=3794721#N79
It has a pentium dual core E2200 1.8 ghz and 2 gig ram. I did a clean install of Windows 7 64bit today as a Christmas presant (up from vista 32 bit) and was wondering if it was worth it to spend $100 on it and throw in another 2 gigs of ram and a core 2 duo E7500? The clean install of win 7 made a huge differance but it still seems too slow, lol, of course anything will be slow to me compared to my main rig (aside from sb-e)
So would the e7500 and 2 more gigs of ram make a noticable differance in performance or should I tell them to run it till it dies and have me build them a full pc when they have more cash? They mainly use it for browsing, editing pictures for ebay and light gaming (nothing crazy, mostly older COD games and kongreate arcade), but it bogs right down when you try to multi-task. Im thinking lack of ram is the biggest problem, but a faster processor never hurts either, lol
Thank you for any help
It has a pentium dual core E2200 1.8 ghz and 2 gig ram. I did a clean install of Windows 7 64bit today as a Christmas presant (up from vista 32 bit) and was wondering if it was worth it to spend $100 on it and throw in another 2 gigs of ram and a core 2 duo E7500? The clean install of win 7 made a huge differance but it still seems too slow, lol, of course anything will be slow to me compared to my main rig (aside from sb-e)
So would the e7500 and 2 more gigs of ram make a noticable differance in performance or should I tell them to run it till it dies and have me build them a full pc when they have more cash? They mainly use it for browsing, editing pictures for ebay and light gaming (nothing crazy, mostly older COD games and kongreate arcade), but it bogs right down when you try to multi-task. Im thinking lack of ram is the biggest problem, but a faster processor never hurts either, lol
Thank you for any help
The main rig
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jack of all trades
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| CPU | Motherboard | Graphics | RAM |
|---|---|---|---|
| i5 3570k @ 4.9 ghz | Asus Maximus IV Gene-z68 | Evga NVIDIA GTX 670 ftw 2gb | 8 gb Samsung "Wonder Ram" @ 2133 mhz |
| Hard Drive | Hard Drive | Optical Drive | Cooling |
| 320 gb western digital | intel ssd | LG Blue Ray Drive | Corsair H100 |
| Cooling | OS | Keyboard | Power |
| 4 stock corsair fans on h100 | Windows 8 | Logitech G510 | Rosewill Capstone 750 watt |
| Case | Mouse | ||
| NZXT Switch 810 black | Razor Deathadder | ||
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The main rig
(19 items) |
jack of all trades
(14 items) |
| CPU | Motherboard | Graphics | RAM |
|---|---|---|---|
| i5 3570k @ 4.9 ghz | Asus Maximus IV Gene-z68 | Evga NVIDIA GTX 670 ftw 2gb | 8 gb Samsung "Wonder Ram" @ 2133 mhz |
| Hard Drive | Hard Drive | Optical Drive | Cooling |
| 320 gb western digital | intel ssd | LG Blue Ray Drive | Corsair H100 |
| Cooling | OS | Keyboard | Power |
| 4 stock corsair fans on h100 | Windows 8 | Logitech G510 | Rosewill Capstone 750 watt |
| Case | Mouse | ||
| NZXT Switch 810 black | Razor Deathadder | ||
| View all | |||
