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Upgrading my PC HELP, IM A HOPELESS NOOOOB

Posted: 2010-01-14 17:15
by Insanitypays
Ive decided to upgrade my PC, and I already bought a kick butt graphics card
I have some good spare RAM cards,
my issue is my CPU speed, how can I fix that?

Re: Upgrading my PC HELP, IM A HOPELESS NOOOOB

Posted: 2010-01-14 18:34
by gazzthompson
post your system specs would probably help. if you dont know them download :

CPUID

will tell you most things needed for people to help. also this will be moved to "General Technical Support"

Re: Upgrading my PC HELP, IM A HOPELESS NOOOOB

Posted: 2010-01-14 18:56
by Bob_Marley
Thread moved to relevent forum.

Re: Upgrading my PC HELP, IM A HOPELESS NOOOOB

Posted: 2010-01-15 15:11
by Insanitypays
Operating System
Windows Vista
Motherboard
Board: ASUSTek Computer INC. NARRA 1.01
Processor
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
Memory:
1022 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Video Card
ATI Radeon HD 4850
Sound Card
ATI AA01
Hard Drive(s)
250.06 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
126.22 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
Optical Drive(s)
SM/xD-Picture USB Device [Hard drive]
Power Supply
ASUSTek Computer INC. NARRA 1.01
Monitor(s)
COMPAQ 5500 13.8-> I have to use this moniter temporarily, and it isnt my problem at the moment

Re: Upgrading my PC HELP, IM A HOPELESS NOOOOB

Posted: 2010-01-15 17:16
by PuffNStuff
For you I would recommend the same family of processor. The athlon x2 6000+ or higher is a great upgrade! Also, get more ram. Look at your motherboard specs, what speed can it handle? Find that speed of ram and slap it in. (since your mobo is kinda old, 4gb is probibly the max, but you didn't give the model number of the board so I can't help that much.)

Re: Upgrading my PC HELP, IM A HOPELESS NOOOOB

Posted: 2010-01-15 19:48
by Insanitypays
It has a 4gig limit