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May 24, 2014 4:59:15 PM

My father get very old computer. He using it only for internet surfing and youtube music and that..but this pc is very slow..so when I click on program or chrome or firefox it takes really long and then lagging a bit and yt videos too.. so I was thinking that cpu or ram are problem.

Specs:
MB : Sis-648FX (Socket 478)
CPU : Intel Celeron 335 (2.80 ghz)
RAM : 512 MB DDR - 200Mhz ( 3-4-4-8)
GPU : GeForce 7600 GS
Storage : 114GB Maxtor

I hope that anybody knows answers or solutions. Greets from Slovenia :) 

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May 24, 2014 5:07:36 PM

Wow.... old school.

OK well the machine as you rightly point out is old. What operating system are you running?

The only way to make that hardware useable with today's software would be to run a really chopped down Linux distro, like lubuntu for example

http://lubuntu.net/tags/light-ubuntu

But you can only run the x86 version as that processor does not support 64bit instructions.
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May 25, 2014 4:13:42 AM

OS is Windows xp. And how can I install this linux?
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May 25, 2014 6:27:14 AM

And yesterday I started chrome and CPU was on 91% so I think that CPU is problem.
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May 26, 2014 12:37:19 AM

SilentStorm7 said:
And yesterday I started chrome and CPU was on 91% so I think that CPU is problem.


To be honest, with respect, the whole computer is the problem! Even though that machine meets the minimum spec for XP when it was released the reality is after all the patches and service packs XP does not run like it used to when it was new. You need a much more powerful machine than the original minimum spec to run even XP well.

The reality is that machine is very old, I don't pretend to have the first clue about parts availability in Slovenia but unless you really want to keep running that machine (or you are in to vintage computing) you really need to start from the ground up.

As I mentioned above, the only way you could make that computer half useable (I'm not even 100% sure how well it would work) would be to run a lightweight Linux operating system on there. So that is to wipe the whole drive and install a new operating system. A very easy, user friendly Linux version I have linked in my first post (lubuntu) and I would recommend reading through that page if you really want to keep using this machine.

If you are willing to spend money on a new computer I would just go ahead and do that. I am all for re-using old equipment but there is a limit!
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