memory or hdd

Discussion in 'CPU, Motherboards and Memory' started by rp210526, Mar 2, 2005.

  1. rp210526

    rp210526 Geek Trainee

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    which is better to make my computer run faster, additional memory or a new hard drive, at the moment i have a 10g drive which is 4 years old can someone give the answer... :good:
     
  2. Sniper

    Sniper Administrator Staff Member

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    what are the rest of your system specs? but a quick answer would be "memory"!
     
  3. rp210526

    rp210526 Geek Trainee

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    check my signature for all my computer details......

    Could you possibly answer the thing about my CPU only running at 1.5ghz when it should be 2.2ghz??

    Thank you
     
  4. Waffle

    Waffle Alpha Geek

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    well a new hard disk won't speed things up much, perhaps getting a raptor disk would quicken disk access, but for an overall system boost, more RAM/memory would be ideal. Consider 512 total, that will be plentiful for that setup.
     
  5. Sniper

    Sniper Administrator Staff Member

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    You have the AMD Sempron 2200+, It is meant to run @ 1.5 GHz! AMD's rating system is based on the equivalent Intel speeds. So that’s saying it would perform as well as a Pentium 2.2Ghz but in this case I think it compares to the Intel Celerons.
     
  6. gopher

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    Definitely more memory!!!! You could try and get rid of that version of windows also... just a personal opinion.
     
  7. Big B

    Big B HWF Godfather

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    I agree, going to 512MB is the best idea. I wouldn't go over that as the Win9x code, which WinME is based on, isn't written to really work with memory greater than 256MB-512MB.

    And I agree about ditching WinME. It's probably the worst version of Windows since Windows 1.0.
     

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