John Sparkman
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I'm looking for a little advice.
I presently have a Gateway ES450 machine. It has an Intel PIII 450Mhz processor, 192MB SDRAM PC100 with a front buss speed of 100Mgz. I'm running Win 98SE. The system also has two 20 Gig Maxtor hard drives, a CDROM, and a TDK 16/10/40 CDRW.
Now heres the thing, I want to upgrade to Windows XP Home but to be honest I'm not sure this 4 year old machine will work well with it. I also like the way I have things set up on this machine. All I'm looking for is an upgrade that will last me another 3-4 years.
I know a young guy that owns his own computer repair and custom built computer shop. He did a good job for me last year when he built a computer I needed for my own company.
For my machine he has suggested upgrading the Motherboard and putting in an AMD Duron 1.2 Ghz processor with 256MB DDR Ram. He knows that I don't do much gaming or video.
I was wondering what kind of advice I could get from you people here at TSG.
Thanks
John
I presently have a Gateway ES450 machine. It has an Intel PIII 450Mhz processor, 192MB SDRAM PC100 with a front buss speed of 100Mgz. I'm running Win 98SE. The system also has two 20 Gig Maxtor hard drives, a CDROM, and a TDK 16/10/40 CDRW.
Now heres the thing, I want to upgrade to Windows XP Home but to be honest I'm not sure this 4 year old machine will work well with it. I also like the way I have things set up on this machine. All I'm looking for is an upgrade that will last me another 3-4 years.
I know a young guy that owns his own computer repair and custom built computer shop. He did a good job for me last year when he built a computer I needed for my own company.
For my machine he has suggested upgrading the Motherboard and putting in an AMD Duron 1.2 Ghz processor with 256MB DDR Ram. He knows that I don't do much gaming or video.
I was wondering what kind of advice I could get from you people here at TSG.
Thanks
John