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A few days ago, I was using a cheap old P3 with 550 Mhz and 320mp ram. Just the other day I got a barebones system that came with a Pentium 4 2.8GHz processor with hyperthreading and a MSI 848 neo motherboard. Also included was a 120 gig samsung hard drive, 3 1/2 inch floppy drive, and a NVida G-4 MX440 graphics card with 64 meg onboard memory. I put in my own cd drives and an extra hard drive and everything works fine, but it doesnt seem to go any faster than the P3 I just got rid of. Games like "There" still run choppy and when there are two or three applications running at once, I still sit there and wait for the darn things to finish so I can do something else. These applications arent memory hogs either. For example, a few minutes ago i had windows explorer open and i right clicked a file, pressed delete, and waited a good 10-15 seconds for the file to disappear, meanwhile I couldn't do anything else since i guess it was putting soooo much effort into deleting that little 10 kb file that it couldnt be bothered with anything else. Is my hardware combination bad for speed or something? I want this P4 to act like a P4 and not like my old P3. If you have any other questions about hardware specs or anything please ask.
Thanks for your time,
Mike
another 256 stick ......
and did you go to microsoft and put in all your updates and also direct x update?
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yeah everything is updated. so 512 should be enough? i dunno, can you think of anything else, it just doesnt seem like memory would affect how fast it deletes a small file or anything like that. and its windows 2000 so its not as bad of a memory hog as windows xp or something like that.
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It's just a hunch, but you processor seems to be stressed out. First of, 120GB storage is useless if you dont have a server or you are not a software developer. I suggest that you return the 120GB and replace it with a 40GB instead.
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why would the processor be stressed and how does getting a smaller hard drive help? i mean if i had 120 gigs of info on it and it was all fragmented then i could see why that would be a problem, but i only have 7 gigs on info on it and disk defragmenter says its 1% fragmented
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