how should i upgrade

Mustapha Maindor

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i have an AMD c-60 1.00 GHz processor, 2 gigs of ram only 1.60 is usable, and 500 gig hard drive i tend to have multiple applications running at once and it gets slow and i'd like to know what piece of hardware should i upgrade

p.s. funds are limited and i have a compaq cq58 laptop
 

PC-MAN

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Yes, but it really wont give you any performance boost...
 

Mustapha Maindor

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so my only option is either buying a new computer or building one myself?
 

PC-MAN

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What do you plan on doing with it? If gaming then yes, if surfing the web and watching videos no.
 

Mustapha Maindor

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no gaming just multitasking and watching videos. my laptop is currently running windows 8
 

CooLWoLF

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Adding more RAM will most definitely help. Using <2gb in a Windows 7/8 is not going to make for a good user experience at all.
 

PC-MAN

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Then ya, just buy more RAM. Buy 4GB you'd be good to go.