Here are the specs for my computer
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Memory: 2016MB RAM
Card name: RADEON 9250
How can i make this run better.
Could i overclock anything ect.
How long has it been since you defragged your hard drive?
A few weeks, not long.
Have you tried backing up everything then reformatting, and only installing the stuff you actually use?
That worked for me on a few occasions when I used windows XP.
Wow man, that system is pretty old.
I would of offered to send you my old Geforce 6800GT to get you a bit of extra performance, but due to a certain cat the card is toast.
Netburst processors (P4s) are not great overclockers for a few reasons:
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1) Clock increases on P4s barely have an effect on performance, unless you make huge clock steps of 500+ MHz. This generally isn't possible because of the things mentioned below.
2) Netburst CPUs all had terrible problems with current leakage between the substrates, causing excessive amount of heat generation. Bumping the clock speed of a 2.8 GHz P4 to the point where it actually yields a registrable gain in performance will increase the power requirements and heat output by two or more times. Most motherboards (and power supplies of the time) didn't have a power regulation system that could provide enough amperage and would likely burn/explode, rendering the motherboard a brick.
3) Some of the final Netburst P4s above 3.0 GHz had a problem where the internal temperature of the CPU die was so hot that it was constantly damaging itself, even with a heatsink able to keep the surface of the CPU within acceptable temperature limits. An OC'd P4 would have this much worse due to not being designed to run at 3.0+ GHz to begin with.
Toms Hardware did a test with a P4EE 3.46 GHz Gallatin, where on each successive run of the same benchmark would perform slightly worse than the previous. use of some special Intel tools showed that even though the CPU was adequately cooled on the surface, the CPU was throttling itself from extreme internal overheating that caused damage.
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I'd honestly not bother with upgrading that machine. You'd be throwing money down the toilet for anything you do to it, which could be better spent on getting a new machine that's 1000x better.
If you absolutely must upgrade it, don't bother with the CPU and get a beefy GPU to offset the weak CPU. If you have an AGP slot, I'd start hunting around for a R9800, GF6800 or GF7800GS (best choice).
Auslogics disk defrag -> defrag and optimize. It will take a night to complete
CCleaner remove junk
make sure hardware drivers are up to date
MSconfig > Service and start up tabs > hide MS services > disable all
Im getting an 720 pound computer anyway. I'm just wondering what I can do it cause I could still use it.
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