Dimension 5000

[Hammond32]

Hello, I find that videos run extremely slowly on my computer. Will upgrading the video card help or is there anything else I can do.


Spec: Intel® Pentium (R( 4
CPU 3.00Ghz 2.99GHz
3.25GB of RAM
Power Supply 305W
146GB Hard Drive
Radeon X300 Series 128Mb

 

[lunyone]

I would say that it wouldn't hurt. There might be other things slowing things down, but a GPU upgrade will definitely help.

For ~$40 shipped! Doesn't require any additional power to run the card (other than the PCI-e slot that you plug it into). I've listed it below:
GIGABYTE GV-R645D3-512I Radeon HD 6450 512MB 64-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready Low Profile Ready Video Card

 

[Hammond32]

Well if that one will definitely work then I shall certainly upgrade to this one.

What other things can I do to help with the speed issues ?

 

[Chainzsaw]

Clean up unused programs. Run a defrag on your hard drive.

The very best way would be to do a clean install. It should make it snappier.

However there is only so much cleaning/defragging you can do to make it any quicker, you have quite an antiquated setup.

 

[Hammond32]

Thanks but I recently had a virus which meant I had to reformat the hard drive, hence I have had a really good clean-up. I know it's a little antiquated (2005), but it all works well and does what I want, except for the speed of videos.