How slow can this get

Hey im new to the forums just wanted to say her. Love your site and the work you guys put into this. But i am running build 5308 and it is really slow. I adjusted the performs still runs the same no deference. can some 1 plz help

Amd 1800+

Ati-9600 all in wounder

1.5 gigs of ddr ram

80 gig hard drive.

Thank you.

 

What processor is it? All you specified is that it's AMD, and it's 1800.



Is it an AMD Sempron 1800+?

Is it an AMD Athlon XP 1800+?



Either way, your processor is the problem, it's too slow.



An Athlon XP will run better than the Sempron, but still.

 

AMD Athlon XP 1800+

Gezz this is make me so mad. I wish i could run this thing alittile bit faster.

What do you recommend?

 

A new processor.



Your motherboard will probably support a lot more than you've got on it. Get an Athlon 2600+ or higher.



If it doesn't, then go get an Athlon 64 [Any of them] and a new motherboard [The rest of your stuff will work with the new mobo, and proc, as long as it has an AGP slow, not PCI-E].



If you get a slightly older ASUS mobo, and an Athlon 3000+ or so, it'll be fairly cheap.

 

Sounds like the cpu. You could try OverClocking it at your own risk. Or just buy a new one, find out what your mobo supprots and max it out like synapse said. What speed ram do you have?

 

Hey, I don't mean to hijack this guy's thread, but i fear i may have the same problem. here are my specs.



Intel Pentium 4 1.7ghz Overclocked to 2.63ghz

1gb RAM

ATI Radeon X1300 256mb AGP

Around 1.5Terabytes of hard drive space

Memorex external DVD burner



Also, I'm not sure if it makes a difference, but the hard drive i have vista installed on (seperate HDD from my XP install) is a SATA drive.