Advice on which PC to buy please

EverDecreasingCircles

Thanks everyone for the advice.

The one I'm using at the moment is about 11 years old so time to upgrade I think. It freezes, runs slow, IE becomes unresponsive. Total nightmare now.

closed

it would probably run like new after a factory restore, which takes about 10 minutes using the recovery partition, (after you've backed up).

EverDecreasingCircles

closed wrote: »

it would probably run like new after a factory restore, which takes about 10 minutes using the recovery partition, (after you've backed up).

Shhhhhh! Don't tell OH that or he won't let me have a nice shiny new one

googler

EverDecreasingCircles wrote: »

Thanks everyone for the advice.

The one I'm using at the moment is about 11 years old so time to upgrade I think. It freezes, runs slow, IE becomes unresponsive. Total nightmare now.

Why not just put an SSD in as the primary drive? It'll probably fly like the wind.

Move the current HDD to secondary, so's your data is still there.

spannerzone

googler wrote: »

Why not just put an SSD in as the primary drive? It'll probably fly like the wind.

Move the current HDD to secondary, so's your data is still there.

That might not be so easy as if it's really 11 years old it's probably an IDE connection not SATA...plus the OS will be XP so hardly designed for optimal SSD operation and needs tweaking to make it work.

If it really is 11 years old then you have to accept that it's pretty ancient and while a reload of windows will make it run better, it will still be an 11 year old computer. I can understand why the OP would want to replace it....if it's a netburst CPU, especially the nasty Celeron netburst then it's time to chuck just out of principle

EverDecreasingCircles

The OS is XP.

I don't know enough about computers to be adding SSDs or even know what an IDE connection or SATA means.

I do know it's ancient though After 11 years I think I deserve a new one

Cisco001

EverDecreasingCircles wrote: »

The OS is XP.

I don't know enough about computers to be adding SSDs or even know what an IDE connection or SATA means.

I do know it's ancient though After 11 years I think I deserve a new one

IDE and SATA is the connector on the motherboard to hook your harddrive or DVD drive.

You can't get a SSD drive because your motherboard would not support SATA. With 11 years old machine would probably be intel P4 or AMD Athlon?

You will definaitely need a new machine if your PC is 11 year old.
What is your budget for new machine?

EverDecreasingCircles

I don't want to spend more than £350 if I can help it. I only need the tower as I've got a relatively new monitor, keyboard and mouse.

Yep, the sticker on the front says AMD Athlon.

A.Penny.Saved

Daniel_Hyatt wrote: »

You only need a very basic system to do what you looking for it to do.

I recommend - something Dual core

2-4gb RAM

250GB hard drive

Windows 7 home premium

you should be able to pick something that will do that for less than £300.00

EverDecreasingCircles wrote: »

I don't want to spend more than £350 if I can help it. I only need the tower as I've got a relatively new monitor, keyboard and mouse.

Yep, the sticker on the front says AMD Athlon.

£120 for a basic system which does everything that you need. Except it doesn't come with an operating system so you would need to either use your existing license on the new PC or purchase one.

There are other systems which are better than that one costing a bit more .......here......

Expansion is limited on these systems but for basic usage they should suffice.

However, as already suggested, if your current system does all you need, a restore or re-install of windows is probably all that you need to restore everything to a much better state. Old windows installs do tend to slow down and get messed up eventually and do require re-installation/restoration. Asking for some help on that would probably get it all working again.

Cisco001

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