upgrading my computer's cpu

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kmccune said:

1.4 is not bad, yes other have faster but it shouldn't be locking up with normal use. How much hard drive space do you have left? You could install more memory, a different video card or a second hard drive.
What is is doing when it locks up?
I almost forgot, what version of windows does this computer have?

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I had 60gb hard drive and 30gb of free space. I have windows xp home edition.

 

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Green Horn said:

Whoa, sorry to confuse the two. I shall stand down from now on when it comes to a certified Best Buy tech. :think: Stick with your cousins advice since I'm sure NONE of us on here could hang with him in the knowledge dept.

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Calm down man, he gave me the same advice as most of the guys that replied to this thread. New ram, new motherboard, video card, etc... He's a computer technician, he just happens to work at Best Buy. Got advice from him and my dad, they said my hard drive is fine. I rather take advice from them than a guy who says "tech stuff is not my strength...blablabla...well it sounds to me you probably need new memory and a new hard drive...blablabla....I'm not the computer guy around here" Yeah I should really take advice from you since you're not even sure what your talking about. But other than that most of you guys were pretty helpful.

 

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If you want to get by without spending too much money I have an Athlon XP2100+ (1.733 GHz Clock Speed) from an old computer that you can have for the price of shipping. That will give you a little more speed. What speed is your memory? I might have some of that (matching) along with the CPU.

 

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thanks man^, my memory speed is 700mhz email me at magnesium89@hotmail.com

I'm interested in getting it. Socket A, right?

 

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Have you checked for virus's, adware, spyware ect...

 

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yup I got Mcafee with antihacker, antivirus, and antiabuse.

 

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mg89 said:

It's a pretty good computer for school work, but I want to play some games and edit some videos. And plus, it keeps freezing all the time.

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Buttmunch? yup that's me, you were the first one being an A$$

yeah, you're totally right. Because I decided out of the blue that I should just upgrade my computer. :cool:

As I posted before, it was initially to load a whole bunch of games in it. Can't do that with the computer I have now, what should I do? oh yeah....upgrade it.

you're on your own boat bud.

 

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Buttmunch? yup that's me

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Well atleast we can agree on something.

The funny part is, that I really don't give a rip about this thread. Just found your logic to be interesting and thus I decided to make fun of you. With you and your cousins wealth of computer knowledge, it sounds to me like you've already got the situation under control. Have fun, kiddos.

 

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GH, should have dropped it yesterday! Now your just be a troll!

 

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mg89 said:

thanks man^, my memory speed is 700mhz email me at magnesium89@hotmail.com

I'm interested in getting it. Socket A, right?

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Yes - The Athlon XP2100+ is Socket A

I will check on the memory and drop you an email.

 

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GH, should have dropped it yesterday! Now your just be a troll!

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Not even close man. Nice try though...

 

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Yes - The Athlon XP2100+ is Socket A

I will check on the memory and drop you an email.

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Are you sure you want one of those, mg? :joke: Hell, an Athlon chips architecture is like 3-4 yrs old. I remember making them when they were the fastest thing on the market.

 

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Are you sure you want one of those, mg? :joke: Hell, an Athlon chips architecture is like 3-4 yrs old. I remember making them when they were the fastest thing on the market.

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I didn't say it was the fastest thing out there ... I just offered to give it to him since it was a little better than what he has now and he shoudl notice some improvement.

 

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Good grief Greenhorn, if you don't give a rip about the thread then take your crap elsewhere and get off this guys back.

 

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Yes - The Athlon XP2100+ is Socket A

I will check on the memory and drop you an email.

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thanks

 

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Good grief Greenhorn, if you don't give a rip about the thread then take your crap elsewhere and get off this guys back.

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But I do give a rip about you, man. :boss:

 

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don't be a troll

 

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GH, lay off the sugar man. There's no need to bash the guy. He's just asking for help. Sheesh!

mg-take the high road. as momma says, ignored behavior tends to deminish. Any response just feeds the troll.

 

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Hail Blathrog!

 

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mg89,

After rereading my previous posts in this thread I have to admit I come off as a real dick. I honestly don't know what posessed me to do it. Must've had a bad couple of days. You didn't deserve it man. All I can say is I'm sorry. Maybe PK is right...too much sugar.

 

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Hey man its cool, everyone has bad days. I was a little out of line aswell.

no hard feelings.

-mg89