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I'm wondering what to do with my 4 year old son's PC. It's 6+ years
old with an AMD K6-2, and used for educational games and online
entertainment. It's very buggy (due to frequent visits to
cartoonnetwork.com) and slower than Christmas. Over the last year I've
replaced/upgraded the CD-R, power supply and floppy drive. The CPU fan
is now dying. Because it's used by my destructive little angel, I
don't want to sink much more money into it. However, I need to keep it
running for another 2 or 3 years until we get a new machine and our old
one gets passed down.
So....
Do I replace the motherboard? What would be the cost, hardware
recommendation, difficulty level?
OR
Just replace the CPU cooler / heatsink? What is your replacement
recommendation? (I think I need a socket 7, but I'm not sure if they
vary)
OR
Any other solution?
Thanks in advance...
I'm wondering what to do with my 4 year old son's PC. It's 6+ years
old with an AMD K6-2, and used for educational games and online
entertainment. It's very buggy (due to frequent visits to
cartoonnetwork.com) and slower than Christmas. Over the last year I've
replaced/upgraded the CD-R, power supply and floppy drive. The CPU fan
is now dying. Because it's used by my destructive little angel, I
don't want to sink much more money into it. However, I need to keep it
running for another 2 or 3 years until we get a new machine and our old
one gets passed down.
So....
Do I replace the motherboard? What would be the cost, hardware
recommendation, difficulty level?
OR
Just replace the CPU cooler / heatsink? What is your replacement
recommendation? (I think I need a socket 7, but I'm not sure if they
vary)
OR
Any other solution?
Thanks in advance...