Video card for 1280x1024

[T_Yamamoto]

This is the HDD it says i have:http://www.google.com/products/cata...&sa=X&ei=fWH_Tuctw6G3B6yIiNIG&ved=0CC8Q8wIwAg
Internal - 250 GB - Western Digital - SATA - 7200 rpm

 

[DominionSeraph]

Ah, this looks much better, but your access times are still shit.

Go into the AAM tab and put the slider to High Performance. Set it and run the test below.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Ah, this looks much better, but your access times are still shit.

Go into the AAM tab and put the slider to High Performance. Set it and run the test below.

He re-ran the test and it got back to 11 ms. Quite good. It's the inconsistency (spikes) and low minimums that really spoils down his experience. A firmware update could possibly take care of that.

-REGARDLESS-

New drive is in order. This good for storage. Maybe SSD?

 

[DominionSeraph]

New drive is in order.

No, it's fine. (if he did get it down to 11ms and you weren't looking at MY 11ms run.) My hard drive is only a tad faster and my computer is by no means slow. He certainly has no reason to be paying current HDD prices!
(waiting on OP to give us the result of AAM run)

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Ah, this looks much better, but your access times are still shit.

Go into the AAM tab and put the slider to High Performance. Set it and run the test below.

High performance....40.3ms average :hmm:

going to wait till the hdd prices go down to get a new hdd

 

[DominionSeraph]

High performance....40.3ms average :hmm:

Take this to Memory and Storage.

 

[gmaster456]

I'd at least have 2gb of ram these days. Whether or not its XP doesn't matter. Ram is cheap, and although DDR2 isn't as cheap as DDR3, you should be able to find a 2gb stick for something around $20

 

[toyota]

you cant even surf the net smoothly with more than a few tabs open with only 1gb of ram.

 

[DominionSeraph]

1GB is fine, although to get the most out of it he should really be using Opera.

 

[toyota]

1GB is fine, although to get the most out of it he should really be using Opera.

no it is not fine unless you want to have nothing but basic services running and only open a few tabs. my netbook drove me crazy because 1gb was not enough to do hardly anything.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Have a box with an ancient 1.6Ghz Celeron + 1 GiG of Ram.

20 FF tabs, no problem at all. I can upgrade easily to 4 but there is simply no need. More is better no doubt about that but it costs $. If you can send OP a free stick, go ahead ;-p

That $20 would be better to invest in IO.

 

[toyota]

some of you must have some magical setups because even just sitting on the desktop my XP netbook was using 700-750mb.

 

[Magic Carpet]

some of you must have some magical setups because even just sitting on the desktop my XP netbook was using 650-700mb.

My XP box uses 150-200 megs, desktop. With FF activity it goes up but it's still quite snappy. I am pretty sure, there is something else hogging your box to 700mb use?

It's not about what you got but it's how you use it (c) MC.

 

[DominionSeraph]

My XP box uses 150-200 megs, desktop.

That's pretty good. Are you running without AV? Because I only have 25 running processes on boot but I'm still well over 200MB. Killing MSE would drop me to 200.

 

[nyker96]

7990 xfire

haha!

 

[Magic Carpet]

That's pretty good. Are you running without AV? Because I only have 25 running processes on boot but I'm still well over 200MB. Killing MSE would drop me to 200.

No antivirus. Check my other posts

 

[tweakboy]

Oh boy we got ourselves a video card bottlenecked by the CPU

4850 or 8600 or 9600 GT will give you 30fps , and work with your PSU.. gl

 

[Spikesoldier]

put 2 more gigs of ddr2 and a gt240

system will be much more well rounded

edit: radeon 6450/6570 is also a good option around that price range, and will be less of a power hog if you are worried about your PSU.

 

[gmaster456]

Have a box with an ancient 1.6Ghz Celeron + 1 GiG of Ram.

20 FF tabs, no problem at all. I can upgrade easily to 4 but there is simply no need. More is better no doubt about that but it costs $. If you can send OP a free stick, go ahead ;-p

That $20 would be better to invest in IO.

Are all 20 of those tabs the google home page?

 

[Magic Carpet]

Are all 20 of those tabs the google home page?

I normally have around 20 tabs open all the time. Forums, news and stuff like that. FF10 is pretty good.

 

[gmaster456]

I normally have around 20 tabs open all the time. Forums, news and stuff like that. FF10 is pretty good.

You don't experience any performance issues like stuttering and lag when switching between tabs?

 

[d3fu5i0n]

HD 5670 512MB, 1GB or an HD 6670 will do. I recommend for the 6670's that it's a GDDR5 version though.
If you want to be prepared for a bigger monitor and more power - especially since you say that it's going to be a SandyBridge build, I suggest a card such as an HD 5770 1GB, a GTX 460 1GB or a GTX 560 Ti. The 5770s and 460s are dirt cheap now.

EDIT: I only read the OP's original post in this thread. I apologise if my response/post to it has a different topic as to what is currently being discussed in this thread.

 

[Magic Carpet]

You don't experience any performance issues like stuttering and lag when switching between tabs?

Well, I joggle between computers all the time. There is difference but I don't focus my attention on it too much. Last time (yesterday) I used this laptop, I can't recall any difficulties doing my tasks.

BOTTOM LINE:

It is absolutely fine and I am going to upgrade this lappy as soon as the new processor arrives but I will be keeping it to 1gb. It doesn't support dual-channel and extra heat is not needed.

-BUT-

If you could send me a 2gbx1 memory stick, I would be most grateful though

 

[T_Yamamoto]

i open up like 8 tabs of youtube and my comp crashes.

if you can send me sticks of ddr2 for free, ill be greatful

 

[Magic Carpet]

i open up like 8 tabs of youtube and my comp crashes.

if you can send me sticks of ddr2 for free, ill be greatful

HD content on a non-gpu accelerated computer can be very taxing for your Pentium D processor. Change your viewing habits or upgrade