Right now, running Skype, Live Messenger, Outlook 2003, Word 2007 Beta 2, & two IE 6 windows open (with Virusscan 8 & MS desktop search 3 and a few other things in the background) my system has 50Mb of physical memory free.
Every now and then my system slows to a crawl - just using office applications - it seems to hang for 10 to 20 s - it's really annoying. Recently the PC got unresponsive when downloading a lot of POP mail. It doesn't seem to happen on the more powerful computers I use, so I think an upgrade would help.
The machine's not used for gaming.
The existing hardware's a 866 PIII, with 2 x 256 PC133, ATI All-in-Wonder 128 AGP, Netgear GA302T pci ethernet. D-Link DU-520 pci card for USB 2, the boot disk is a Deskstar DTLA-307015, the main board is an ASUS CUSL2-C (which has an i815EP chipset), and it was an aftermarket PSU, though I don't know what rating.
I'd like to make use of as much of my existing system as possible, mostly to keep the price down.
Cheers
2006-11-26
21:56:02
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Sacha B
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