BEARCATJER
New Member
)Early this year i bought a custom desktop from a company on the internet.Ever since i bought it i have been disappointed with its speed in processing various transactions and i am a routine user of computers for email, net surfing, playing music etc.Nothing which requires blazing speed.Nevertheless, this box is slower than the 4 year old Dell Inspiron 8600laptop i used to use and i dont understand why. I recently contacted tech support of the company where i purchased the PC and they told me that it is possible that my continuing to use Win XP Home..32 bit.. as my OS is creating this slowness.
They also told me that the MOBO i purchased as part of this PC..an ASUS M2N-MX SE PLUS model was a fairly low end motherboard and could be part of the problem in trying to keep up with my Athlon 64 x2 dual core 6000 processor.
Working with tech support we revised some of the BIOS settings and the PC does seem to be a little faster now than it was.
They told me they could give me a credit on my current MOBO and sell me a replacement of higher quality. They are also sending me a one year free trial copy of Win Seven to see how that helps.
I am willing to upgrade my MOBO and /or the OS if it will really help. I trust the people i bought the PC from but would appreciate any feedback from users of this forum on whether or not what i have been told makes sense.
thanks for your help.
SPECS..CURRENT SYSTEM
AMD ATHLON 64 X2 DUAL CORE PROCESSOR..6000+AM2
ASUS M2N-MX SE PLUS MOTHERBOARD
4GB DDR-2 800MHZ PC6400 MEMORY
320 SATA 7200RPM HD..16MB CACHE (HIGH PERFORMANCE)
22X DVD -RE DUAL LAYER WITH LIGHTSCRIBE
NVIDIA GE FORCE 6100 VIDEO...ONBOARD
6 CHANNEL DIGITAL SOUND..ONBOARD
OKIA A-POWER 450 WATT POWER SUPPLY
SAMSUNG SYNCHMASTER 22 INCH MONITOR
WIN XP HOME SP3 OS
They also told me that the MOBO i purchased as part of this PC..an ASUS M2N-MX SE PLUS model was a fairly low end motherboard and could be part of the problem in trying to keep up with my Athlon 64 x2 dual core 6000 processor.
Working with tech support we revised some of the BIOS settings and the PC does seem to be a little faster now than it was.
They told me they could give me a credit on my current MOBO and sell me a replacement of higher quality. They are also sending me a one year free trial copy of Win Seven to see how that helps.
I am willing to upgrade my MOBO and /or the OS if it will really help. I trust the people i bought the PC from but would appreciate any feedback from users of this forum on whether or not what i have been told makes sense.
thanks for your help.
SPECS..CURRENT SYSTEM
AMD ATHLON 64 X2 DUAL CORE PROCESSOR..6000+AM2
ASUS M2N-MX SE PLUS MOTHERBOARD
4GB DDR-2 800MHZ PC6400 MEMORY
320 SATA 7200RPM HD..16MB CACHE (HIGH PERFORMANCE)
22X DVD -RE DUAL LAYER WITH LIGHTSCRIBE
NVIDIA GE FORCE 6100 VIDEO...ONBOARD
6 CHANNEL DIGITAL SOUND..ONBOARD
OKIA A-POWER 450 WATT POWER SUPPLY
SAMSUNG SYNCHMASTER 22 INCH MONITOR
WIN XP HOME SP3 OS