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What can I do to upgrade my computer for better performance?

April 10th, 2009

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My computer is kinda of a old model It is a HP515n. It seems to be still running great The only thing I have installed in it is 1gig of memory. This is what I have on my computer now.2.3GHZ Intel Celeron Processor,1 gig of DDR-SDR memory,80 GB-of Ultra Hard Drive,64 MB of Integrated and extreme graphics. What can I do to make any upgrades or do I need to just invest in another computer?

By: powerglide51

Tags: Computer Performance, Intel, Running

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3 Responses to “What can I do to upgrade my computer for better performance?”

1. Philip T Says:
   April 11th, 2009 at 06:11

   The weakest link on your PC is the fact that it has a Celeron processor.
   Put a Pentium 4 CPU in it & it will be like night & day.

   Get a P4 2.4Ghz on eBay for $10

   regards,
   Philip T

2. enjoyit_gst Says:
   April 11th, 2009 at 06:59

   RAM is one of the easiest this to upgrade. I would upgrade to at least 2GB. Also if you have an extra PCI slot you could upgrade you video card. A nice 250GB hard drive would be nice as well, but thats only if you want the extra space. Also try increasing your paging file.

3. God of the Trumpet Says:
   April 13th, 2009 at 02:59

   Hopefully you have a desktop because it’s much easier to upgrade and all the links I will give you will be for desktops but just know for laptops, you can’t really upgrade the graphics card and it can be hard to upgrade the processor.

   You should get another gig or 2 of ram. I recommend a minimum of 3 gigs but 2 will work just fine.

   Celeron is an old processor and all of them were slow. You need a dual core processor. A Pentium HT dual core at least. I recommend a core 2 duo.

   An 80 gig hard drive has been long out of date. You should look into getting a 250 gig hard drive. You probably won’t need more than that as long as you don’t make or edit a lot of videos.

   The integrated graphics means there is no graphics card. You should get one. I recommend at least an nVidia 8600 GT or better.

   Graphics card (be sure you have a PCI E slot if not, I’ll give another link to a regular PCI slot card.)

   PCI:

   Hard Drive:

   Core 2 Duo processor:

   If your motherboard does not support a Core 2 Duo (it probably wont) get a pentium 4. They were ok processors.

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