A very badly made CPU?

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#45
Seems like a memory upgrade would in order. Check to see how much ram your motherboard can take - if 4GB this should make a pretty big difference. I used an i3 with just 2GB of ram with win 7 pro 64 bit for a short while at work, but I had a separate graphics card, performance was actually ok. No games playing however. (I now have an i7 with two video cards and 8GB of ram, it's fairly fast..)
 
#46
i can upgrade to a maximum of 4GB but i have no clue where to get two 2GB DDR2 sticks of laptop-type memory at. this computer really could use the extra memory especially if it's clocked at a higher speed maybe the stuttering would just "vanish"

I'd have 3.5GB of system ram would be more than enough for a little gaming here and there but nothing insane like crysis 2 or metro 2033
crysis 1 runs just fine but it would run even better with an overclock on my processor but the thing sucks because it's locked intel atom 230 is locked so i cant even touch it sadly.

At least things would stop taking ages to open after running a big program of some kind.
i rarely get that but sometimes i do. so more memory would help but it's hard to get cheap usable memory for old computers (ridiculous prices like 49$+)
 
#51
The Atom 230 is an extremely slow CPU. Take a look at some benchmarks and you'll see its only about as powerful as desktop CPUs from the early 2000s. A memory upgrade isnt going to be much help, what you need is a CPU upgrade. Check to see if your CPU can be removed. If so you can replace it with the dual core Atom 330 which should make a noticeable improvement.
 
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tvrgeek said:
512 just won't cut it. Windows is too bloated. The next version of Win 8 CLAIMS to be far more hardware tolerant as they want to keep in the tablet and phone game. Wh onows. If all you do is browse, just put CentOS , Susi, Fedora or other LINUX on it. Just watch for video compatibility as even LINUX expects a pretty hefty video these days.

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Just tried the latest version of Ubuntu (32 bit) it was more "bloated" than Win XP.
IMO ...wont work at all ( waaaay tooo sloooow ) w/512MB.
for instance "Installation CD" now requires a DVD > LOL
 
#54
again my rule holds true > old hardware and a new OS is trouble
Linux command line interface is not a friendly GUI, but it is light weight.
not an avenue I prefer going down for doing basic PC admin things / disk management and network stuff.
 
#55
Me either. I had it on a 128K P1, text only as it needed way more video for the basic GUI. The good thing about UNIX is you can make it run only what you need. We once got a Solaris server down to running 12 processes. Just get into etc and turn off the garbage.

sh and ed. Not friendly, but always there. Learn them well.
 
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