I need some, OK a LOT of help....with upgrading my kids computer.
I have an HP Pavilion 523n. I need to decide if it's worth upgrading or trying to afford a new one. I don't want to repeat the mistake I just made with buying an eMachine (what a piece of junk)....
What I found so far is that it currently came with 512mb Ram, it has 2 DIMM slots/3 PCI slots/1 AGP slot, it's an AMD and is 80gb HD.
I want to say I've had it about 4 years so it's out of date the minute you "drive it out of the lot" but it's old and tired. About the 2nd year the floppy disk drive went out on it. Then it started making the awful grinding noises but hell, my new POS eMachine grinds like a freight train and it's NEW!!! Last time I tried to update microsoft updates it just totally messed up the computer and I had to go back to the beginning....what a mess since I'm not computer saavey!!!
I've tried to take care of it with all the spyware, anti-virus things I can since it's for my kids. But it continues to just chug along at a snails pace. I'd like to upgrade if it will be cheaper.....
It's used for: Word of Warcraft and various other high memory usage games.....homework.....heavy internet use, i.e. college reseach, myspace, AIM, etc.,.......and of course music and video downloads.
Can anyone help me decide what I need or if it's worth upgrading or should I just shoot it?
I have an HP Pavilion 523n. I need to decide if it's worth upgrading or trying to afford a new one. I don't want to repeat the mistake I just made with buying an eMachine (what a piece of junk)....
What I found so far is that it currently came with 512mb Ram, it has 2 DIMM slots/3 PCI slots/1 AGP slot, it's an AMD and is 80gb HD.
I want to say I've had it about 4 years so it's out of date the minute you "drive it out of the lot" but it's old and tired. About the 2nd year the floppy disk drive went out on it. Then it started making the awful grinding noises but hell, my new POS eMachine grinds like a freight train and it's NEW!!! Last time I tried to update microsoft updates it just totally messed up the computer and I had to go back to the beginning....what a mess since I'm not computer saavey!!!
I've tried to take care of it with all the spyware, anti-virus things I can since it's for my kids. But it continues to just chug along at a snails pace. I'd like to upgrade if it will be cheaper.....
It's used for: Word of Warcraft and various other high memory usage games.....homework.....heavy internet use, i.e. college reseach, myspace, AIM, etc.,.......and of course music and video downloads.
Can anyone help me decide what I need or if it's worth upgrading or should I just shoot it?