Memory or CPU upgrade for mom

[myplane150]

Hi folks,

This is ancient tech but I am trying to get al bit extra out of an old Pentium 3 for mom. Would it be better to upgrade the CPU from 800mhz to 1ghz or the RAM from 512mb to 768mb? Thanks in advance.

 

[spine]

ram, but you'll pay alot for sdram for that cpu. Too much frankly. I wouldn't spend any money on a system like that to be honest.

If you wanna do something, and spend just a little, then I'd say your best bet is to buy a cheap second hand athlon64 based system.

You could ask for such a setup in the for sale forum here, I'd bet there's tons of people here with old socket 939 setups that they wouldn't mind getting rid of for a fair price.

 

[engiNURD]

What's your budget?

 

[Simmonz]

Hi folks,

This is ancient tech but I am trying to get al bit extra out of an old Pentium 3 for mom. Would it be better to upgrade the CPU from 800mhz to 1ghz or the RAM from 512mb to 768mb? Thanks in advance.

RAM. If you are going to put any money into that system RAM will most likely help you out more than an extra 200 MHz, especially if your using XP.