Makdaddymac
New Member
i recently picked up a FREE tower pc.... i want to make a budget gamer out of...
its 1.8ghz,2.0usb,blah blah, with 10gb(lol,yes 10gb) and 256mbRAM...it was used for pictures and internet by my grandparents!but they bought a dell cause they were mad that they paid money to upgrade it and it wasnt fast enough for them...probably cause all the guy did was give them a new case,motherboard,and cpu.....running some piss hd and ram,with a cr-rom 50x....
i looked up the mother board and its 2gb ram expandable. so yah,im just gonna buy a big HD,2gigs of ram,dvd-rw,and a 200.00 video card undecided,led fan,and a 19inch flat screen.
currently the computer is running win98.....i just want to put XP on while i make progress with the upgrades.anyways heres my questions
1)since the motherboard is 2gb expandable, 2700/333mhz.... can i put two 1gb stickk without problems.....i know 1gb is like 1024 mb,so wouldnt that add up to more than 2gb????
2) should i use the 52000rpm 10gb just to run the OS. and use the other for storage and game files etc.....or should i just use a nice 7200-10000rpm 160-200gb HD for the whole thing???basically would it hurt my performance,im just trying to get the most out of this machine.
3) if i do replace the HD, can i just pop in the ram,plug in the ide and power and tunr on the computer and boot up xp?????i have a boot CD!
its 1.8ghz,2.0usb,blah blah, with 10gb(lol,yes 10gb) and 256mbRAM...it was used for pictures and internet by my grandparents!but they bought a dell cause they were mad that they paid money to upgrade it and it wasnt fast enough for them...probably cause all the guy did was give them a new case,motherboard,and cpu.....running some piss hd and ram,with a cr-rom 50x....
i looked up the mother board and its 2gb ram expandable. so yah,im just gonna buy a big HD,2gigs of ram,dvd-rw,and a 200.00 video card undecided,led fan,and a 19inch flat screen.
currently the computer is running win98.....i just want to put XP on while i make progress with the upgrades.anyways heres my questions
1)since the motherboard is 2gb expandable, 2700/333mhz.... can i put two 1gb stickk without problems.....i know 1gb is like 1024 mb,so wouldnt that add up to more than 2gb????
2) should i use the 52000rpm 10gb just to run the OS. and use the other for storage and game files etc.....or should i just use a nice 7200-10000rpm 160-200gb HD for the whole thing???basically would it hurt my performance,im just trying to get the most out of this machine.
3) if i do replace the HD, can i just pop in the ram,plug in the ide and power and tunr on the computer and boot up xp?????i have a boot CD!
