hi i have a very old pc that i like to upgrade but im not sure to upgrade what. my pc specs are intel celeron processor 500 mhz, 64mb sdram with up to 11mb allocated to video memory and with 4 bays and 3 slots. i have never upgraded anything so can you Recommend something easy. im only going to use this computer for browsing the internet and i would like it to go a bit faster. thanxs

"im only going to use this computer for browsing the internet and i would like it to go a bit faster." Get DSL or Cable. Upgrading your system will make no appreciable increase in browsing speed. The bottleneck is the modem.

"Upgrading your system will make no appreciable increase in browsing speed. The bottleneck is the modem." I don't know about that. Flash-infested pages slow down my 1ghz P3, and some flash animations on newgrounds.com make my P4 2.0 chug along! Which chipset is that PC using? If it's a 440LX, your max processor will be the 733mhz Celeron, which really isn't worth the upgrade. If it's a 440BX or 810/815, you'll be able to install up to a 1.1ghz Pentium III, which will definitely give you a speed boost. You should be able to upgrade the RAM to at least 384mb with three slots; this will help with big jpegs/streaming movies. FX-57 @ 3.1ghz 4GB of OCZ PC-4200 500GBx4 drive array Sapphire X850 XT-PE Fujitsu 1920x1080 projector

You can add Ram to 128Mb or more! But now the sdram is too costly. So i think you'd better buy a new machine :-)

Hi I recently did an upgrade for a machine 450Mhz Processor on a PIII Board for the sake of Internet alone. I just installed WIN Pro NT 2000 and did a RAM Upgrade of 512 MB with 2*256 SDRAM. There were also having 64 MB Ram with 8 GB HDD. I just formatted the machine (low level) and installed WIN 2000 and increased the RAM to 512. That did the trick. the SDRam is a bit expensive (512 MB is about $70 equvivalent in India) but it was worth than buying a new machine with PIV etc. In order to Boost your internet connection you can try out hosts of free software available throughout the net. If you are taking a cable connection then you will be having a great speed.Hope you can make use of the above. Regards Jagannathan Balaji

The only upgrade I would bother with would be to increase the ram and get a PCI graphics card of say 32mb or maybe 64mb onboard VRAM. I have a couple of similar spec systems and they are more than adequate for netsurfing and basic office applications. I used to have a signature but it disappeared and I just couldn't be bothered writing another so please feel free to ingore this.

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