Best Way to Speed up Old Machine?

lally07

lally07

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Hello,
Quick Question for you guys,
Ive got an old desktop PC running an Intel Pentium E2220 with 1gb of RAM.
Its running very sluggishly (Browsing the internet takes forever, constant locking up)
I need the cheapest way to speed it up the most, would that be an extra 1gb of RAM or a new SSD with only the OS on. I'm a bit short on cash right now so It can only be one or the other.

+ Its running Windows 7 atm, as the age of the hardware, do you think it would be beneficial to downgrade to XP?
 
SSD for sure will make it faster,1GB of ram is not leaving you a whole lot for Xp or 7.

I suggest going on Ebay and picking up a couple of sticks of USED ram,Its really cheap..also same with SSD you can get a decent 60-120Gb SSD for around £35-40 second hand.
 
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I'd get RAM before SSD. You could put a SSD in there but still be swapping to the page file horrendously since there's not enough memory.

Personally I wouldn't look at any less than 4 GB.
 
beers said:
I'd get RAM before SSD. You could put a SSD in there but still be swapping to the page file horrendously since there's not enough memory.

Personally I wouldn't look at any less than 4 GB.
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Agreed. 4gb should be minimum ram installed in machines these days.
 
How do you know it's just hardware? Do you have a lot of crap on it? Run Autoruns and see.

Nuke option works. Reformat and install 7 again. But for me that's the very last thing I ever do and that's rare. I have a netbook that can surf the net just fine! 1.6 GHz Atom. Bit slow to load the browser, but it works as my kitchen kiosk with external monitor/keyboard/mouse. I clone it with AOMEI Backuper using USB drives. There's a trick to doinig that though. You have to boot AOMEI first and then during boot connect the USB drive to backup to.
 
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