old computer want to make it better

[Mustapha Maindor]

i have an old computer and it's slow. it has .99 gigs of ram, a 250 GB hard drive and an intel pentium 4. what's my first step if i want to make it faster?

 

[USAFRet]

Save your pennies and spec out a whole new system. Not much you can do with a Pentium 4.

Failing that, about all you can really do is increase the RAM. Assuming your current system allows that.

 

[Mustapha Maindor]

Save your pennies and spec out a whole new system. Not much you can do with a Pentium 4.

Failing that, about all you can really do is increase the RAM. Assuming your current system allows that.

will the ram make a difference

 

[USAFRet]

Save your pennies and spec out a whole new system. Not much you can do with a Pentium 4.

Failing that, about all you can really do is increase the RAM. Assuming your current system allows that.

will the ram make a difference

Marginally. Depends on what you're using it for. But RAM for that will be relatively expensive. Much more per GB than current DDR3 RAM.

 

[ethereal essence]

Honestly it isn't worth salvaging anything out of that pc. Like USAF said, save up for a whole new system.

 

[phyco126]

More RAM and a SSD if you can, but the system is so old that it may not even be able to handle those upgrades.

 

[ethereal essence]

More RAM and a SSD if you can, but the system is so old that it may not even be able to handle those upgrades.

considering it is a pentium 4 we're talking about here, if it has sata capability, it would only be sata I... and honestly, an ssd running through sata I would be a HUGE waste of money. going from 1 gb to 2 gb (max supported i'm sure) of ram would not be worth the money.

 

[beanoslim]

i have an old computer and it's slow. it has .99 gigs of ram, a 250 GB hard drive and an intel pentium 4. what's my first step if i want to make it faster?

Put wheels on it and push it down a hill :lol:

Not worth upgrading mate, it is what it is, as the others have said spend your money on a new setup.

 

[kelski]

Depends on what you are using it for. My neighbors have a similar setup and only use it for web & email (they are 76+ yrs old). I defraged their hard drive a couple months ago, did a virus sweep and upgraded them to 2 gigs of ram (had it laying around in an hold computer). Made them happy, they think they have an awesome computer now.... lol