Hi guys,
Just built a computer for a friend, and they want their old computer to go to their niece. However, this computer is by today's standards a dinosaur, so I told them I would seriously have to upgrade it if they wanted to make it an everyday use computer.
This is it:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00245801&lang=en&cc=us&taskId=101&prodSeriesId=450204&prodTypeId=12454
It's just as you'd suspect for an old computer. Freezes for 15 minutes once you boot it up, and still runs slow after that. I was thinking about getting a bigger hard drive and memory, but the hard drive is IDE and the max supported RAM is 1GB DDR1. There really is no room for upgrade. I would have to get a new processor, motherboard, and hard drive, maybe even a new power supply depending on the wattage and a new disk drive if I can't find a Sata female to IDE male adaptor for the disk drive.
Currently, what is the cheapest newer cpu (with integrated graphics) that I can get for everyday use with Windows 7? Nothing more, it's for a kid, so we want to be as cheap as possible. I'm looking at both Intel and AMD. Do you think I would need a new power supply as well? And is there an adapter that plugs right into the back of an IDE drive, that I can plug SATA into on the other end? So far I've seen either external or PCI-E drives that do this.
Thanks!
Just built a computer for a friend, and they want their old computer to go to their niece. However, this computer is by today's standards a dinosaur, so I told them I would seriously have to upgrade it if they wanted to make it an everyday use computer.
This is it:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00245801&lang=en&cc=us&taskId=101&prodSeriesId=450204&prodTypeId=12454
It's just as you'd suspect for an old computer. Freezes for 15 minutes once you boot it up, and still runs slow after that. I was thinking about getting a bigger hard drive and memory, but the hard drive is IDE and the max supported RAM is 1GB DDR1. There really is no room for upgrade. I would have to get a new processor, motherboard, and hard drive, maybe even a new power supply depending on the wattage and a new disk drive if I can't find a Sata female to IDE male adaptor for the disk drive.
Currently, what is the cheapest newer cpu (with integrated graphics) that I can get for everyday use with Windows 7? Nothing more, it's for a kid, so we want to be as cheap as possible. I'm looking at both Intel and AMD. Do you think I would need a new power supply as well? And is there an adapter that plugs right into the back of an IDE drive, that I can plug SATA into on the other end? So far I've seen either external or PCI-E drives that do this.
Thanks!
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