"Kaleb C. Striplin" wrote: > > Been looking into the computer upgrade thing.
Just about any computer is good enough for most uses if it's running smoothly. I've been upgrading my 3 year old $300 E-Machine this weekend. Put the original hard drive back in it and ran the system restore dvd. All the problems and slowness went away. Ever evening I'll boot it up from the reformated hard drive and add more software. It looks like when I'm done I'll have a computer 3-5x as fast as I started with. Windows just loves to go corrupt over time, so I have to start over every 1-2 years. I've gone from not being able to play a decent game of pinball with nothing else running (every once in a while the hard drive will kick in and the ball will stutter) to being able to play pinball while downloading windows updates and recording a TV show. I even tried using the time lag feature to display the beginning of the show while recording the middle. All this on a Prescott core 2.66ghz Celeron-D with WinXP, integrated video and 768MB of RAM. Mitch. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
