I am in a daze, I have just upgraded to vista as I like dthe look and wanted to iron out the bugs now while I had some time off work. My system spec is P4 630 3.0ghz 915pl-a2 ecs m/board 1gig ddr 400mhz ram 160gb hard drive 7200rpm, 16mb cache nvidia geforce 6800xt My problem is I have started using it and I find it a little sluggish, I checked my WEI score and I got 4.2, 4.5, 5.9, 4.6, 5.5 the lowest being for the processor - not bad according to microsoft but still feels slow to me. I want your opinions on this system, I cant afford a new one but may manage a couple of upgrades if quite cheap up to 100 -150 max I dont use it for gaming much, mainly video editing and photos, email and surfing. I was thinking about upgrading to 2gig ram first and possibly adding a second graphics card as its sli but it would have to be the same and would need a new psu as its only 300 watts or so or I could ditch the one I have and buy a newer model with better performance. If anyone were to upgrade this what would they do? Now I've started looking into it I thought maybe buy a new motherboard and faster memory ddr2 which is cheaper than ddr. What would have the best results and can anyone recommend any prducts? I am thinking try the ram first but if it doesnt give me the results I will have to upgrade something else and may need different memory etc. so many things to think about... I am totally out of the loop with hardware as I have had this pc nearly 2 years. The hard drive, monitor, speakers etc are fine. HELP PLEASE...
with new software comes new hardware.. so upgrade ur ram to DDR2 to 2gig which will show a HUGE improvement in the way it runs.. for a motherboard this one is pretty good and its by asus so u can trust them Newegg.com - ASUS M2N-Plus SLI Vista Edition Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 500 SLI MCP ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail intel has also just dropped its price on its proccessors so maybe check them out and u should be fine
