I am looking to ugrade my system to try and extend it's life by a year or two. Currently I have
2800+ AMD Sempron @ 2GHZ
768MB DDR RAM PC2700 184 pin (was originally 256MB, bought a 512MB stick)
Random normal HD
ATI Radeon 9550
I was thinking about buying a 1GB stick of DDR ram and replacing my 256MB stick with it. So that would double my RAM amount to 1.5 GB. This was the kind of thing I had in mind. When combined with delivery it should be around £40 and the 19 reviews are all 5 stars so it seems like it would be a good purchase.
I was also thinking about getting a new graphics card. I was thinking of this as it seems a very good card and should improve my performance quite a lot.
I am worried thought that the effects of buying the two mentioned items would be limited because of my lacklustre CPU. Am I correct? If so how do I tell exactly what type of CPU I need and whether an upgrade would be effective. Or would it be better to build a new system from scratch?
Thanks for any help.
2800+ AMD Sempron @ 2GHZ
768MB DDR RAM PC2700 184 pin (was originally 256MB, bought a 512MB stick)
Random normal HD
ATI Radeon 9550
I was thinking about buying a 1GB stick of DDR ram and replacing my 256MB stick with it. So that would double my RAM amount to 1.5 GB. This was the kind of thing I had in mind. When combined with delivery it should be around £40 and the 19 reviews are all 5 stars so it seems like it would be a good purchase.
I was also thinking about getting a new graphics card. I was thinking of this as it seems a very good card and should improve my performance quite a lot.
I am worried thought that the effects of buying the two mentioned items would be limited because of my lacklustre CPU. Am I correct? If so how do I tell exactly what type of CPU I need and whether an upgrade would be effective. Or would it be better to build a new system from scratch?
Thanks for any help.