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[david6789]

Ok I just bought a:
2.60 Celeron
768 MB PC2700 Ram
40gig HD
Windows XP home edition

I other computer (I have had for a while):
1.8 AMD
512 PC133 Ram
80gig HD
Win 2000 Professional


My question:
My old computer (the 1.8 AMD) is faster then the 2.60 celeron. The new computer seems very laggy (for lack of a better word). Just plan slow. What can I do to help speed things up please?

Thanks in advance
Dave

 

[r53s]

768 Ram is fine.
Your Celery should be kind of slow if it isn't Celeron D.
You can speed up things adding a video card if you're running onboard video...

 

[david6789]

Just ordered a Geforce FX 5500 256MB PCI Card.

Any thing else I can try?

Thanks
Dave

 

[cheaty112]

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[GreySteelFox]

is XP professional faster than XP Home?

 

[cheaty112]

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[yellowsnowman]

also, celerons (no matter what the clock speed) are still super slowwwww...

you may want to get a bigger harddrive, cause if that 40gig is near to filling it will definately slow your comp.

 

[mammikoura]

I think that the new pc is not custom made. There could be some manufacturers programs running, some stuff that u will prolly never use. U could try and remove these. Someone else had this same problem some time ago and this made his pc run faster.

 

[DJ Stephen]

OPPS, aRE CELERON DS BETTER THAN CELERON?

 

[Dishdog]

are your sure your computer is using all your RAM. also when intels heat up they slow down to compensate for the heat.

just a side note i don't really know if it applies to the celeron and AMD but with a P4 and AMD 64 processors a 2GHz P4 is not equal to a AMD 64 2GHz. the AMD 64 is better.