I feel the need to upgrade my computer. There are several things I am not happy with since I added a DVD +R ,-R, and RW drive to my computer.
There are two things I think I definitely need to upgrade. One is my CPU. I now have an AMD 1800 +. I do not think this is enough processing power since the DVD drive was installed.
I’m going to have to get an AMD 2600+ or higher processor to satisfy my processing power needs. I think I may have to increase the amount of memory in my system also.
At present I have 256MB of DDR 2100 memory. I don’t really think the amount of memory I have is significantly slowing things down like the CPU speed is but I think it is time for me to bring my system up to 512MB.
I may also need another motherboard to work with the faster chip so I may in fact have a new computer.
I am not to satisfied with the low end boards ASUS, Gigabyte, and other popular names are putting out so I will try to look for some less popular brands to see if I can find anything else that might meet my basic computing needs.
Of course these brands must be AMD boards. Not that AMD motherboards are better than boards that use Intel chips but I respect the corporation or business that produces quality at competitive cost. In computer chips and motherboards (and operating systems too) competition is good.
As a rule AMD chips and compatible motherboards are cheaper than Intel chips and compatible boards.
Both AMD and Intel make computer chips that are expensive and less expensive. For Intel the Pentium chip is there high-end chip. This usually means it has more cache and few manufacturing defects. The high-end chip for AMD is the Athlon XP.
The less expensive chip for Intel is the Celeron, which has less cache, and more defects during manufacturing. The less expensive AMD chip is Duron.
All computer chips work and many will not even notice the difference in performance between an expensive chip and less expensive chip.
The first computer I built used a 700 megahertz Duron chip (it is still in use by another person with okay performance) and worked quite well.