Whats good ya. I just got a Celeron PC for my father from Best Buy's Black Friday Advertisement. It was $150 in store for the PC and 17" Flat CRT monitor (talk about a pretty decent deal). So for him, I thought that was a good deal. The PC has the following:
-Celeron 340 D, 2.93 GHZ Processor, 533 FSB
-256 MB DDR 400 RAM
-80 GB Drive
-GeForce MX4000 128MB PCI Card (I popped this in to get rid of integrated video)
-DVD-ROM/CD-RW Drive
Basically, he is going to use it for going back to school as well as doing some CD-Burning and maybe even DVD-Burning. To do all of this, I will upgrade the hard drive and get a DVD-Burner eventually. What I am concerned about is memory! Right now it is OK, but I know I can juice it up.
To speed things up, I went on New Egg and I saw a Corsair 512MB DDR 400 chip for like $50 including shipping and handling. I work at Best Buy and we get the same exact one for $55 with our discount. Or I can go with the Corsair 1GB chip for $78. I am really considering the 1GB because you figure for an extra $30, you can get twice the memory.
Would that be enough for running most applications pretty fast without doing any gaming?
P.S. You figure if I get either one, I can pop one of those into my A64 3200+ (also DDR400 3200) to speed that up when he gets another desktop or goes with a laptop. Thanks a lot for the help ya
-Celeron 340 D, 2.93 GHZ Processor, 533 FSB
-256 MB DDR 400 RAM
-80 GB Drive
-GeForce MX4000 128MB PCI Card (I popped this in to get rid of integrated video)
-DVD-ROM/CD-RW Drive
Basically, he is going to use it for going back to school as well as doing some CD-Burning and maybe even DVD-Burning. To do all of this, I will upgrade the hard drive and get a DVD-Burner eventually. What I am concerned about is memory! Right now it is OK, but I know I can juice it up.
To speed things up, I went on New Egg and I saw a Corsair 512MB DDR 400 chip for like $50 including shipping and handling. I work at Best Buy and we get the same exact one for $55 with our discount. Or I can go with the Corsair 1GB chip for $78. I am really considering the 1GB because you figure for an extra $30, you can get twice the memory.
Would that be enough for running most applications pretty fast without doing any gaming?
P.S. You figure if I get either one, I can pop one of those into my A64 3200+ (also DDR400 3200) to speed that up when he gets another desktop or goes with a laptop. Thanks a lot for the help ya