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I wouldn't put any money into upgrading that computer. I would replace it all.
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I have a Dell Dimension 2400 with the following specs:
Pentium 4 3.2GHZ w/ HT
80GB IDE Hard drive
512mb Ram (Upgrading to 2gb this week)
Nvidia 512mb video PCI video card.
The hard drive...
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Perhaps you should test the drive to see if there's something actually wrong with it. Most hard drive makers offer diagnostic tools on their websites. You can probably pick up a refurbed drive...
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There's no doubt that the whole system will be a good deal faster if the OP formats and installs a new copy of XP, without changing any parts, as you suggest.
That being said, if he is so inclined...
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Windows 7 runs fairly well on older hardware and less than 1GB of memory.
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I have run it on 512, but it slows it down substantially. Adding in the extra 512 to make it 1 gig makes for a huge improvement, whereas going up to 2 gigs from 1 gig, does not make such a big...
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What is your upgrade budget? It would help a lot for us to know. We might be able to guide you to something that you could buy for now that is expandable.
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The upgrade to 2gb ram will speed it up a bit, but not if you have done nothing to preform maintence on the machine. I see nothing here about you cleaning out cookies, temp files, temp internet...
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make more partitions help to seek files faster!
for example: 1gb page/swap file, 10gb windows, 5gb software, the rest for storage.
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If you want a $30 solution that should make your machine a fair bit faster, you might want to consider one of the following.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136827...
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that board doesnt have the best reviews (although not terrible). The g620 can play simcity 2013 with ease. I would save up about 300 and buy one of the staples/office depot/lenovooutlet/delloutlet...
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In that case, just leave it as it is. You're upgrading it a piece at a time when instead you should simply be saving your money for a new rig. 512MB of RAM is laughable and 2GB is still...
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Since you are upgrading ram... to at least a Gig
I'd try windows 8... might get you a speed bump as its meant to run light by design.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso
I have...
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I agree 100%. Leave the hardware as is and reformat the machine. If this is an original install it has to be going on 10+ years at this point which is long for any machine but especially XP.
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How full is the 80GB HD? Maybe there's not enough space for a big swap file. OTOH if it shows low performance numbers with a benchmark like HDtune, the DMA could be turned off, either because of a...
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:iagree:
You're throwing your money away on a new hard drive unless you think you'll need it down the road. The system appears not to even have PCI Express, so I question the logic of getting a...
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As far as value, I just gave away 40 Dell 2400's to a local school district because we couldn't get a dime for them so don't base any decision on "raising the value". Also, SSD - forget it for this...
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To start buying for a new rig would this be a okay motherboard? https://slickdeals.net/permadeal/74314/newegg-ecs-h61h2m21.0-lga-1155-intel-h61-micro-atx-intel-motherboard?&page=4#comments
I...
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I couldn't find the reconmended specs for Ubuntu on their site, but i beleive I could if I search, but would Ubuntu run on this computer?
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I have the exact same machine and you'll really see the difference upgrading to 2Gb of memory.
Without a Sata card there it will not be possible to upgrade to a SATA HD. I've used one of the SATA...
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I don't have the money to upgrade it all right now, but I did get the P4 for very cheap and replaced the Celeron D, but i didn't know if it was worth it to buy a hard drive for future use and just...
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According to
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim2400/en/sm_en/specs.htm
I don't see Dell Dimension 2400 supports SATA drives.
Even with 2gb ram and SSD+SATA expansion card...
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i would back up your harddrive on external drive,then format you computer then reinstall dell disk operating system,add your extra memory as well,
try upgading to windows 7
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1-2GB RAM is perfectly fine if you're running a 32-bit OS, but you may find the cost of RAM for that machine to be prohibitively expensive - you'll have to drop $50-60 to get to 2GB, plus another...
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Whether it is a wise move or not, getting a new 7200 rpm IDE drive, will vastly improve the performance over an old used one.
If you are running XP as I presume you are, 1 gig of ram is ample. 2...
