So the computer finally is showing it's age
Monday, January 14, 2013 by kona0197 | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
It's taken me awhile to start this thread, sorry. I know this may end up in flame wars. Again I am sorry.
So everyone knows my situation. Well those close to me on this site do. My computer is finally showing signs of how old it truly is. Keep in mind my computer has a Pentium 4 processor so I am guessing this setup to be almost ten years old. The problem, even after a few friends helped me here with a new hard drive and more memory, is the rest of the system. The processor can't keep up with the newer operating systems. I'm having a hard time just running XP. Found out the other day my DVD Burner drive is almost dead as it will read disc sometimes and other times it will not. Monitor is on it's last legs as well. Hard to read anything and the brightness is going out. It's an old CRT Dell monitor that is almost as old as the tower.
As Starkers had told you this computer is my main way to communicate with the things that are important in my life. So I was hoping someone out there had a few newer parts I could install to extend the life of the machine a bit. Nothing special. I already have DDR2 memory and a newer hard drive. Just need a few other things.
So carry on. Discuss I guess.
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Reply #402 Thursday, February 7, 2013 4:01 PM
Reply #403 Thursday, February 7, 2013 4:06 PM
Karma, hehe. kona and I have know each other for at least 10 years. He gives me shit and I give him shit. Always been like that and will probably always be like that.
Reply #404 Thursday, February 7, 2013 6:14 PM
Last time I checked I don't give you any kind of trouble. This probably still stems from that big issue over at skinning.net with I was a moderator there. Either that or you have nothing better to do. I do my best to avoid you actually. I don't want to start any problems.
Reply #405 Thursday, February 7, 2013 7:03 PM
Reply #407 Friday, February 8, 2013 12:55 PM
80 GB IDE HDD and cable are on their way. 
Should be there on Monday.
-- Ace ---
Reply #409 Friday, February 8, 2013 2:55 PM
Ace, that transfer looks like it went through.DT1
Reply #410 Saturday, February 9, 2013 9:47 PM
Well I have been keeping busy. Organizing my MP3 collection, and renaming a few eBook collections one by one. Need to organize my bookmarks. Just waiting. Hopefully everything gets here Monday, and everything works. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Reply #412 Saturday, February 9, 2013 11:17 PM
Last I checked the tracking number it was in Kansas city
Reply #413 Sunday, February 10, 2013 10:22 AM
Any news on the disk yet Kona. Snail mail being what it is.
Reply #414 Sunday, February 10, 2013 11:04 AM
Kona i hope that memory helped you after all
Ed 
Reply #415 Sunday, February 10, 2013 2:23 PM
Yeah I got the disc on Uvah. Got it in last week. I just hope that key works. I don't like calling people! LOL
The memory helped Jaroepz. In fact I am using it right now. Thanks!
Reply #416 Sunday, February 10, 2013 2:32 PM
The Tower, board, & cables should get there tomorrow or Tuesday at the latest. -- Ace --
Reply #417 Sunday, February 10, 2013 2:52 PM
Also Kona, I wanted to let you know that the tower and the board are already assembled and all the wiring from the front panel is already properly plugged into the board. All you'll need to do is mount your CPU and cooling system , PSU, memory, and Drives, all the proper cabling for these items are already plugged into the proper connections on the board. I wanted to make it as easy for you as I could, but of course as I said earlier, I included the owners manuals for both the board & the tower in the event that you had any questions or problems. That computer was EXTREMELY fast when I was using it , so I'm excited to see what you're experience will be like. -- Ace ---
Reply #418 Sunday, February 10, 2013 4:17 PM
Well I'm used to a Pentium 4 at 3 Ghz, single core. We will see I guess. Never had a quad core processor. I'm expecting the new CPU to act just like this P4 with the ability to do more in the background, that's it. And I will only have 3 GB of RAM for now, I think I gave away one of my 1 GB sticks. 
Reply #419 Sunday, February 10, 2013 5:18 PM
It has 4 memory slots so you can add a stick anytime you get another, but really, 3GB will be plenty fast for right now. Remember that your video card also has it's own dedicated GPU memory which is an added benfit when it comes to speed. -- Ace --
Reply #420 Sunday, February 10, 2013 5:27 PM
Yeah the graphics card has 256 MB of memory. Not much by today's standards i guess.
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Reply #401 Thursday, February 7, 2013 3:33 PM
No you didn't. We can read under the line ya kmow.