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Should I upgrade my computer or buy a new one?

I have some old mdg brand computer with 2.8ghz celeron proccessor 2gb ram nvidea geforce 6200oc I already have as much ddr2 ram as this computer will fit (other two slots are ddr1 and I discovered only one or the other will work), pretty much the best video card pci will handle (still not good at all by todays standards), and now I want to upgrade the processor, but with the old 478pin the best I can get is a p4 3.4ghz and thats an expensive $100 for such an old piece of hardware, am I pushing this...

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Change your Video card to one or the other ; I am saying either DirectX9 or DirextX10 that will play...

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Should I upgrade my computer or buy a new one?

I'm wondering if I should buy a new computer or just upgrade my old one. My old computer is a Windows XP SP2 AMD Sempron Processor 1.81GHz 512Mb of RAM (but when I check it says 384 Mb) As you can probably tell, it is pretty slow. If I keep my computer...

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Add RAM & download Reginout to improve performance of your system.

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How Can I Upgrade My Computer? Or should I just buy a new one?

I didnt know anything about computers, (and still dont) and so bought an HP about 3 years ago and I gotta say... it sucks. I didnt know what was good and what was bad, but appearantly, I only have a 254mb Ram in this PC (Piece of Crap). What can I do...

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Everyone seems to be saying buy a new one, I'll disagree. 256MB of RAM will kill any system. Another...

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Should I upgrade my computer or just buy a new one?

I have a Dell™ Dimension 8250. It's about 6 years old and has 533 megahertz. It also has 4 slots for RAM and only two are being used at the moment. I only have 256 meg in the RAM and I'm in dire need for more. The unfortunate situation I'm in,...

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Computers are outdated every 4 or 5 years if we are lucky, Since yours is 6 years old its time for a...

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Upgrade computer now or wait to buy a new one?

The computer is fairly old; it has a single-core processor and a 8x AGP graphics card slot. I would like to be able to multitask more and be able to play newer video games on it. This is not absolutely necessary but would be nice. I upgraded the ram...

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well, it is better if you just leave your PC as is and just use it for normal PC tasks such as web browsing...

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Should I upgrade my computer or buy a new one(see details)?

I have a computer:AMD Athlon 2600+,1 GB of RAM,GeForce FX 5200 video card that has 128 MB memory and it's AGP.Now I've been thinking of buying a new AGP video card.It costs like 60 Euro and it has 512 MB memory.Or I can buy a new computer with promotion...

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I'd personally buy a new computer. It depends on whether or not you feel that you can spend the money...

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Buy new computer or upgrade old one?

I have a computer that dates back to year 2003, and i'm confused. It's really weak(1.7Ghz Pentium 4 Processor, 256 mb RAM, 128 mb graphic). Problem is, i'm thinking of upgrading all my parts. Is it worth it to upgrade an old computer(to 2.0ghz Core ...

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get new. it will be easier in the long run than trying to get parts and make them work. also your upgradability...

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Upgrade my computer or buy a new one?

Ok I have a problem. First off, my computer is very slow and laggy, so I decided either to buy a new comp or upgrade my recent one. Btw I got this computer (ShuttleX I think) from my ...show more

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Upgrading is the way to go save your case and power supply maybe your hard drive and optical drive replace...

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I want to know if i should upgrade my computer for wow or just buy a new one?

My wow runs super laggy some times so i was ether going to upgrade my ram to 4gb's and a get a new graphics card or get a new computer? These are my computers details: Acer AMD 64 processor NVIDIA geForce 6100nForce 405 1.00 GB ram

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Yes, you should drop a few hundred dollars to pretend to be awesome in a world of midgets and cows.

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Should I upgrade my computer or buy a new one?

Okay I have a Compaq Presario SR1303WM-B I brought it in 2004. I love to play the Sims2 games so recently I added 1 gig of ram, this has really helped my game loads in a few seconds, but the video card is not up to it, should I buy a new video card(if...

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Your compaq has an asus a7v8x-la which means that is has an available AGP8X slot so you can upgrade...

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