- Jun 19, 2014
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Hi, my friend's dad has an HP Pavilion Slimline s5704y that is running slow. He would like my help in upgrading it to run better for as cheap as possible. It has 3GB of ram with free DIMM slots to put more in, but all he does is basic web browsing with a few tabs open. Consequently, only 2 or so GB is being used at a time. Upgrading RAM wouldn't do anything. The PC has an AMD Phenom II X2 250 Dual-Core processor at 3.0 Ghz. I looked at new processors, but this PC's cooling is restricted to a mere 95w TDP. An SSD is an option, as my friend's dad occupies only 81.3 GB out of the 500 GB hard drive currently in the PC. The HDD speeds aren't too shabby though, with 110 MB/s read and 100 MB/s writes. My question is: What do you recommend I upgrade in this PC to make it run better? Thanks in advance. -Dean
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