New Poster longtime lurker. Thanks in advance for your time and suggestions.
My Girlfrend got an HP computer awhile back 1yr+. I wanted to do a couple of cheap upgrades to help the system preform better, it is/was pretty anemic.
System specs: HP/Compaq Presario SR1720NX
Semperon 3500+, 512mg 3200 ram
Onboard video ATI 200 express
Onboard sound, 160GB HD
MS XP Home
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...tem=pv-56089-1&product=1815875&os=228&lang=en
So from an Etailer I ordered more ram(512mb, 23 bucks), new video card (XFX 7600GT, 70bucks) and AMD 64 X2 4200+( 65 bucks). The new CPU runs at 2.2Ghz and the Old one ran at 2.0Ghz. The ram and video card were good and easily done upgrades. The new CPU is problematic. On boot and in the bios the correct cpu type and speed is recognised. In the device manager the cpu is listed twice. I have run a couple of benchmarking apps and found the the new chip preformes at or about and prehaps worse than the old chip. I found an artical on Anandtech to compare with a CPU-Z score that I ran.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2452&p=3
I'm having some trouble posting the CPU-Z Image, but the bottom line is that my results are lower than Anandtech's and the benchmarking is slighly lower than the Old CPU. Any Ideas? The bios is restrictive/ not adjustable.
My Girlfrend got an HP computer awhile back 1yr+. I wanted to do a couple of cheap upgrades to help the system preform better, it is/was pretty anemic.
System specs: HP/Compaq Presario SR1720NX
Semperon 3500+, 512mg 3200 ram
Onboard video ATI 200 express
Onboard sound, 160GB HD
MS XP Home
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...tem=pv-56089-1&product=1815875&os=228&lang=en
So from an Etailer I ordered more ram(512mb, 23 bucks), new video card (XFX 7600GT, 70bucks) and AMD 64 X2 4200+( 65 bucks). The new CPU runs at 2.2Ghz and the Old one ran at 2.0Ghz. The ram and video card were good and easily done upgrades. The new CPU is problematic. On boot and in the bios the correct cpu type and speed is recognised. In the device manager the cpu is listed twice. I have run a couple of benchmarking apps and found the the new chip preformes at or about and prehaps worse than the old chip. I found an artical on Anandtech to compare with a CPU-Z score that I ran.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2452&p=3
I'm having some trouble posting the CPU-Z Image, but the bottom line is that my results are lower than Anandtech's and the benchmarking is slighly lower than the Old CPU. Any Ideas? The bios is restrictive/ not adjustable.