PC nerds, got a question[views:2770][posts:5]_____________________________________ [Aug 13,2006 11:25am - handinjury ""] My puter knowledge is limited, bare with me...... I have an old gateway Pentium 2 PC(399 mhz, 192mb ram) that I use for internet use. The hard drives(ata 100's - 7200 &5400 rpm) are hooked up via a PCI ata66 card. Would I gain anymore speed by upgrading to a ata133 pci card? Are my hard drives even running at max speed with that older card? I just need a little more power because Surfing the net is fine until I want to also listen to music,then things gets slower(I plan on getting more ram also) |
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| _______________________________________ [Aug 13,2006 11:30am - the_reverend ""] 133 will give you nothing. get more RAM if anything, but you are still going to have a slow computer. if you are running windows xp on this, you need at least 256mb. |
| _____________________________________ [Aug 13,2006 11:53am - handinjury ""] the_reverend said:133 will give you nothing. get more RAM if anything, but you are still going to have a slow computer. if you are running windows xp on this, you need at least 256mb. Yes, Win Xp home. I will max out the ram(768mb). Thanks duder. |
| _______________________________________ [Aug 13,2006 3:37pm - deodiummortis ""] Sounds like a footrest to me. |
| ______________________________________ [Aug 13,2006 3:58pm - the_reverend ""] I suggest getting it to 512mb. if it's not too much for the extra 256mb, go ahead and bring it to 768, but a 400mhz comppy won't really utilize that extra 256mb. |