Is this upgrade worth it?

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Suki243

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Well, i have 2 problems, i need more ram and my brother's comp needs some serious attention. My Bro has a 2.2 p4 with a soyo dragon p4x400 mobo, 512 corsair ram, and a radeon 8500 dv video card. I on the other hand have a 2.8 ghz p4, a p4c800 deluxe asus, 512 ram, and a radeon 9800 pro. If i get a gig of ram then my 512 goes to my brother, so he has a gig in the end too. But my question is should i spend 157 $ and get him a new processor, or a new video card. Or should i wait for him to get a new computeR? His comp lags so much that he cant even go on flashplayer.com and play a game without it lagging.
 
I don't think his computer should be that slow. I have a 2.4 P4 and I can run just about anything without issue. I would do some serious spyware and virus cleaning or maybe even a format/reinstall before you go and throw money at that one.
 
The Radeon 8500 is kind of on the last legs of being useful for game purposes, but the P4 2.2 shouldn't have a problem with flash games of all things. I would also suggest a reformat and fresh install.

If you're looking at getting a new video card, maybe look at a Radeon 9600 or something like that. They are less than $80 (get 128-bit 128mb memory version).

Also, adding the RAM would probably help both your computers.
 
Yes, I agree with Kirbyrj. Definatly do a reformat. Its just a good overall idea about once a year. and Windows will always use more ram. Im running a 1.4GHZ proc, and I have very few problems about being able to access stuff like flash, and I have a TNT2 Video card and 256ram. I don't really use it for a whole lot of games, but it does everything i want it to.
 
ok, this subject came up again between my brother and I. I would like to mention 1 incident that happened to this computer that we are discussing, once when we were sleeving the cables we switched the two of the wires, which caused the floppy drive to burn. Do you think that because of this it might've damaged the hdd and thats why its going so slow, or do you think it also damaged some other important parts.
 
anyone? all i kno is that when the two wires switched it caused the floppy to fry and it smelled bad. We accidentally switched the red and the yellow ones. Also it somewhat seemed that when we got the computer back running, some of the programs were missing
 
No, if the hard drive wiring was messed up, it would be totally fried- and you would know it too.
 
Suki243 said:
ok, this subject came up again between my brother and I. I would like to mention 1 incident that happened to this computer that we are discussing, once when we were sleeving the cables we switched the two of the wires, which caused the floppy drive to burn. Do you think that because of this it might've damaged the hdd and thats why its going so slow, or do you think it also damaged some other important parts.
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try running manufacturer's diagnostic software to find out if the HD is okay..
 
k if its not the hdd then what could it be. Or is the problem simply a reformatt issue. I've tried defragmenting the computer, running numerous scans for spyware, adware, and viruses with norton 2005, lavasoft, pestpatrol and spybot.
 
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