how outdated is my pc? ram 1024   disc space 160 gig speed 2600? i bought in 2003?
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well your ram i think is the quickest u can get and 160 gig hard drive is pretty big, so would say that not much outa date, for me i reckon if the computer does what you want it to do then it cant be out of date
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If you still have the owner's manual, look it up there.  If not, go to the website of the manufacturer and find your model and look up the specs there.\n\nThe mainboard will require ram that has a specific bus speed [e.g., DDR 333 aka PC 2700], a specific type [ single data rate or double data rate], and will support a certain amount in mb's [1 gig, 2 gigs].\n\nYou can usually find what mainboard you have by going to Start, All Prog, Accessories, System Tools, System Information.  With System Information highlighted on the left pane, on the right under System Manufacturuer and System Model your mainboard will be listed.
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Perhaps you should upgrade to 2007\nE
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Windows 2000 will not show a significant speed increase by going above 256MB of RAM, and your machine likely won't be upgradeable beyond about 1.2 or 1.4GHz.  Again, you probably won't notice the difference that youre likely hoping for.  \n\nMy advice would be to either: \nA) Upgrade what you have to Windows XP Home Edition (about $90 US) instead.  Provided you have enough hard drive space to do so.  A 30GB hard drive or higher should do unless you have a LOT of software/MP3s/games. This should buy you some time to save up for your next PC.\nB) See if you can sell the machine you have and put that money toward  a low end Dell, eMachines, HP or used PC with Windows XP and at least 256MB of RAM.  They can usually be had for $300-400 US. \n\nFrom my experience Windows 98, Millennium, and 2000 ran optimally on 256MB of RAM.  For future refence, on anything besides high-end gaming machines 1GB of RAM is optimal for Windows XP.  If hardcore PC gaming is a factor, I lean toward 2GB.
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Just buy an older version of an operating system such as Windows 2000.  Or if you don't want to pay anything, maybe you could consider a linux operating system such as Ubuntu or Lindows.
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u can upgrade the mother bord and make it better and/or just buy 1 or 2  memory sticks(ram) and stick them in ur comp.
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You can run the PowerLeap upgrade configurator, to see what your system is capable of, in regards to upgrades. http://www.powerleap.com/\nHowever, they are way overpriced, so take the info and run like heck, to Fry's, or a compatible store!!\nIs the floppy drive working?\nYou did not  really give us your existing configuration, so answering your TV Tuner card question could be hard ?\n{e.g. who made you motherboard?, CPU specs (P3-could range from 450MHz. to 1.3GHz}?, Use of TV Tuner card - watch TV, or record, an burn movies?
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ok first off, have you any software that can find and delete redundant files on your pc, if not try cc cleaner, free and awesome, secondly defragment the drive if you haven't already, thirdly try and limit the amount of things running in the background as this is guarenteed to slow things down. If you have taken all these steps already with no improvement it may be worth getting a new mainboard, CPU and memory possibly a new hard drive aswell. all in all cost around £200-£300.
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Download CPU-z and check the ram.  It will tell you everything about your Motherboard and the components.
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if you have 64MB ram you seriously need to put more in fella! Jeepers what are you using an old BBC schools comp?\nAnyway in answer to your Q you have enough me to do that!
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easy...\n\ngo to kingston.com and use their ram wizard...  No guess work.\n\nAnoosh's suggestion just uses the system info in the registry.  It can be inaccurate.
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Maybe this program will help: \nhttp://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1830362,00.asp
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you should get a memory upgrade.\n\nwith ram prices so low, you should probably go for 1Gb ram =)
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http://www.crucial.com  That site will show tell you the exact amount and type memory your system uses.\n www.newegg.com is a good place to buy from
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It sounds as if you need more Memory=RAM which you didn't mention how much the machine has..\ngo to http://www.crucial.com put the name and model number in the search place and they will show you the excat amount  and kind  the pc uses
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Not software!!!!! Bad RAM!!!!!!!!\nEither mismatched or just plain evil. Have you done an upgrade recently?
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You need to buy more memory - 256MB is chump change as far as RAM is concerned nowadays. You pretty much need at least 1GB.