smashedpumpkins
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I made the mistake of buying a PC that was too cheap... My father-in-law wanted a PC that would be quicker than what he had. He had an AMD Athlon 5200+ dual core, 2 gigs of ram, geforce 6100pm-m2 mother board and a few regular parts. I tried to save him some cash with the following PC I bought for $350. Lenovo H415 (30991PU) Desktop PC | Staples®
To be honest it runs about the same if not slower than his previous computer... (It was Windows XP but this Lenovo is Windows 7) It has 6 gigs of ram but the processor is weak sauce. He's an accountant and is constantly opening up software that's horribly designed and takes forever to load. From my limited knowledge I'm thinking a processor upgrade is all he really needs? An SSD would help too but I don't know if he wants to fork out the cash. Any recommendation on what processor will work here for maybe a few hundred? Is there anything else in this PC that will limit the speed of applications? I'm open to all recommendations. Thanks for the help!
To be honest it runs about the same if not slower than his previous computer... (It was Windows XP but this Lenovo is Windows 7) It has 6 gigs of ram but the processor is weak sauce. He's an accountant and is constantly opening up software that's horribly designed and takes forever to load. From my limited knowledge I'm thinking a processor upgrade is all he really needs? An SSD would help too but I don't know if he wants to fork out the cash. Any recommendation on what processor will work here for maybe a few hundred? Is there anything else in this PC that will limit the speed of applications? I'm open to all recommendations. Thanks for the help!