Nagasama
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hi all,
i am trying to speed up my moms office desktop.
it's a dell p.o.s. dimension 3000, it has a pentium 4, maybe a little over a year old.
i upgraded the two 256 sticks of dell memory to two 512 sticks of patriot memory with the same memory timings. it helped a little, but not nearly as much as i thought it would.
and i don't want to trade my 4200 to her unless she buys me a conroe haha.
she runs quickbooks, which is certainly a resource hog. but, it seems that the system is slow no matter what it is doing. the only real difference i see by adding the memory was the time to load a web page.
i think there is a way to limit the amount of processes it runs automatically, and i think? this may help.
i'm trying to speed this dog up, any ideas?
any input is appreciated.
also, the cpu is a prescott 2.8, socket 478mPGA.
in cpuz, the spd tab has two columns. the first says:
166mhz
2.0, 3, 3, 7
the second says:
200mhz
2.5, 3, 3, 7
the memory tab says:
4:5 fsb/dram
166 mhz
2, 3, 3, 7
as far as i know the memory should be running at a latency of 2.5, but it says its running at 2.
what's up with that?
obviously i cannot make adjustments in this computers bios, so i need some help, advice, etc.
thanks!
i am trying to speed up my moms office desktop.
it's a dell p.o.s. dimension 3000, it has a pentium 4, maybe a little over a year old.
i upgraded the two 256 sticks of dell memory to two 512 sticks of patriot memory with the same memory timings. it helped a little, but not nearly as much as i thought it would.
and i don't want to trade my 4200 to her unless she buys me a conroe haha.
she runs quickbooks, which is certainly a resource hog. but, it seems that the system is slow no matter what it is doing. the only real difference i see by adding the memory was the time to load a web page.
i think there is a way to limit the amount of processes it runs automatically, and i think? this may help.
i'm trying to speed this dog up, any ideas?
any input is appreciated.
also, the cpu is a prescott 2.8, socket 478mPGA.
in cpuz, the spd tab has two columns. the first says:
166mhz
2.0, 3, 3, 7
the second says:
200mhz
2.5, 3, 3, 7
the memory tab says:
4:5 fsb/dram
166 mhz
2, 3, 3, 7
as far as i know the memory should be running at a latency of 2.5, but it says its running at 2.
what's up with that?
obviously i cannot make adjustments in this computers bios, so i need some help, advice, etc.
thanks!
but it depends on your comp, if your not sure what you can stop then post back with whats in your msconfig startup and we`ll help.
