Upgrade or buy complete?

well-medicated

In recent years I have built and upgraded all our home PCs, but due to ill health, I've let this old one (bought new) go a bit too long. For the same reason, I have little enthusiasm for reading up specs for a small or large upgrade project.

AMD athlon XP2200, 1800 Mhz, socket A,
ASUS A7V333
512 DDR RAM
MAXTOR 6Y120L0
USB2 board added


Running XP Home; recently upgraded to new monitor and I'm happy enough with the CD and DVD drive specs - I can always use one of the other PCs if faster speed needed.

I had thought of just bunging in another stick of RAM. Only using Office progs and internet/email at present, but if health improves would be back to using Adobe and macromedia progs, sibelius, etc.

Any advice will be greatefully considered - writing this message was exhausting - it has been my entire work for today, so go easy on me.
Thanks in advance

W-M

fwor

My personal opinion would be to do exactly what you suggest - whack another stick of RAM in to take it up to 1Gb, and that should only cost about £12!

If you're happy to use it for relatively undemanding tasks, it should be more than adequate. Until very recently I was using a 800MHz PIII for all of my email, word processing, browsing, etc under XP and it worked fine.

wakandem

I woukld suggest an upgrade. take it up to a gig ram or 2gig
I am running a socket a board at 2000mhz with 2 gig ram as our main pc. It runs so well and is stable as anythying. May be a bit slow on todays standards but it runs all of our apps fine which are generally office type progs, mulimedia, internet, photoshop. I don't see any reason to change in the near future

ormus

depends on your budget really?
as been said a stick of ram for 12 quid.
or a used 2.8/3.0 ghz puter off ebay for 50/100 quid?
or a new base unit off say dell.

give your present unit to a family member.