I need YOUR help to tell me why my computer is so horrible!

O.K. I'll start off by saying my computer is garbage. Absolute garbage. I've been saving up to buy a new computer, and so far its going well, but now my computer is just starting to get worse and worse. I can now hardly watch videos on youtube in 360p. It gets choppy as hell. I'll post the specs on whatever I can find, and perhaps you can tell me what's wrong. Also, I'm not exactly sure on how to clean a computer properly (deleting unnecessary files, etc) so I'd be greatly appreciative if you guys could help me out. Thanks!

(Note: My computer has died many times due to electrical storms, and viruses. Many parts needed to be replaced.)

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Running CCleaner has never hurt in my experince

Uninstalling bloatware and keeping background programs to a minimum helps too :)

CCleaner and Defraggler

Your could upgrade your video card (and install a newer driver) as well as add some more RAM. Additionally, your are probably not using the latest Flash player, so head over to www.adobe.com and get it. But, I would really recommend re-installing windows based off your known virus issues and previous failures.

Your could upgrade your video card (and install a newer driver) as well as add some more RAM. Additionally, your are probably not using the latest Flash player, so head over to www.adobe.com and get it. But, I would really recommend re-installing windows based off your known virus issues and previous failures.

fib112

Yup, that's a super old system lol.

O.K. I'll start off by saying my computer is garbage. Absolute garbage. I've been saving up to buy a new computer, and so far its going well, but now my computer is just starting to get worse and worse. I can now hardly watch videos on youtube in 360p. It gets choppy as hell. I'll post the specs on whatever I can find, and perhaps you can tell me what's wrong. Also, I'm not exactly sure on how to clean a computer properly (deleting unnecessary files, etc) so I'd be greatly appreciative if you guys could help me out. Thanks!

(Note: My computer has died many times due to electrical storms, and viruses. Many parts needed to be replaced.)

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/2922/15683098.png

jman1553

you gpu is dated.. you have 1gb ram beyond that your not too shabby actually.. go out and get a 4670 , a new psu and some more ram..

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O.K. I'll start off by saying my computer is garbage. Absolute garbage. I've been saving up to buy a new computer, and so far its going well, but now my computer is just starting to get worse and worse. I can now hardly watch videos on youtube in 360p. It gets choppy as hell. I'll post the specs on whatever I can find, and perhaps you can tell me what's wrong. Also, I'm not exactly sure on how to clean a computer properly (deleting unnecessary files, etc) so I'd be greatly appreciative if you guys could help me out. Thanks!

(Note: My computer has died many times due to electrical storms, and viruses. Many parts needed to be replaced.)

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/2922/15683098.png

ionusX

you gpu is dated.. you have 1gb ram beyond that your not too shabby actually.. go out and get a 4670 , a new psu and some more ram..

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[QUOTE="jman1553"]

O.K. I'll start off by saying my computer is garbage. Absolute garbage. I've been saving up to buy a new computer, and so far its going well, but now my computer is just starting to get worse and worse. I can now hardly watch videos on youtube in 360p. It gets choppy as hell. I'll post the specs on whatever I can find, and perhaps you can tell me what's wrong. Also, I'm not exactly sure on how to clean a computer properly (deleting unnecessary files, etc) so I'd be greatly appreciative if you guys could help me out. Thanks!

(Note: My computer has died many times due to electrical storms, and viruses. Many parts needed to be replaced.)

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/2922/15683098.png

gmaster456

you gpu is dated.. you have 1gb ram beyond that your not too shabby actually.. go out and get a 4670 , a new psu and some more ram..

not really.. basically ANYTHING more modern pwns the face of an mx440 agp card and ram wise.. eh w/e no big loss there..

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007611%20600006040&IsNodeId=1&name=184-Pin%20DDR%20SDRAM

find some ram..

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150433

swpa the gpu

get a nice psu for all of 50 bucks more.. tada at most he/she will spend 200 bucks.. you cant replace 90% of a system with 200 bucks and have it preform as good. my GRAW avatared compadre..

CCleaner and Defrag the Hard Drive and We'll go from there. gmaster456

[QUOTE="gmaster456"]CCleaner and Defrag the Hard Drive and We'll go from there. markop2003

It's not just he frequency of the chip, which Is not bad by todays standards, but an Old Athlon from yesterday does not have even a fraction of the advances made by the chips today. The hardware bus that chip runs on Is also ancient, and AGP Is still tied Into that bus...start over.

That processor is the main bottleneck of that system. You could upgrade the memory and the GPU but the processor will bog you down every time. That is a single core, a slow one at that.

Follow the guide in my sig. That will give you as much of a speed boost possible without re-installing.