Recent content by locoman

I have a very old Acer Aspire One 725 laptop. My mother wanted to use it mainly for video calls with her church friends using facebook group calls, but it's just not strong enough for them, it seems. Here are the specs: CPU AMD C-60 1 GHz Dual-Core 1.33 GHz 2 GB DDR3 RADEON HD 6290 The main...

I'm mainly asking so I don't leave any stones unturned, but here goes. My wife works at a local university as an english teacher (in Venezuela, native language is spanish), in the Languages Center they have some old compaq presario computers (don't have the exact model at hand but they're 10+...

My wife's laptop, an acer aspire 6920G (full specs here: http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/laptops/252637/acer-6920g/specifications) keeps restarting itself 5 to 10 minutes after turning on. It dual boots windows 7 and ubuntu, and I've had it happen on both, which makes me think (and fear) it's...

I'm going to upgrade my computer with a new motherboard/CPU/memory combo, and I have a hard limit of $300 on amazon.com to do it. I'm in Venezuela, for legal reasons can't increase the limit or buy elsewhere, I could buy local but would mean paying more than 3 times the price for it. Other...

Hello there. My video card fried (old 8800) so I'm in the market for a new one, and thinking of taking the oportunity to do a mobo/vid/CPU upgrade (from a core 2 duo 1.8). Not entirely sure if this is the correct subforum but here goes. There's a big catch, though. I live in Venezuela, so...