First thing I wanna say is I love this forum :P I've learned so much in the last hour or so just from reading old threads!!!
My PC has been acting up A LOT for a while (Including: freezing, 5minute boot times, 25 whopping minute shut off time at times [whats that about!?] and internet browsers closing off all the time in the middle of videos and general lag as well like the simplest of programs taking ages to load properly...) so I've decided to upgrade my RAM which I only learned I could do thanks to this forum! And I'll be ordering it from Mr Memory in a few days.
I've also read about upgrading the Processor and the Motherboard which brings me to the reason I'm making this thread, how do I go about doing upgrading them, is it easy??, where should I buy new ones?, would you recommend me doing so?(like, are there any reasons NOT to) and what ones should I get? (if there is more than one type..)
I also did a quick Google search prior to making this thread and found another forum with a similar thread and I read that you need to update a ''BIOS'' and get a new Graphics Card if your gonna bother with upgrading a processor...I don't know what most of that means so if anyone can dumb it down for me it'd be much appreciated!! :)
A few details about my PC if it helps.
It's an Acer Aspire T180, 512MB RAM, 160HDD, OS is Windows Vista Basic. There's also a sticker on the front(I know, what a n00b:P) saying ''AMD, 64 Athlon-X2'' I dunno what that is but it might help you guys in answering my Questions.
Thanks you for reading all that lol !!!
Joe
My PC has been acting up A LOT for a while (Including: freezing, 5minute boot times, 25 whopping minute shut off time at times [whats that about!?] and internet browsers closing off all the time in the middle of videos and general lag as well like the simplest of programs taking ages to load properly...) so I've decided to upgrade my RAM which I only learned I could do thanks to this forum! And I'll be ordering it from Mr Memory in a few days.
I've also read about upgrading the Processor and the Motherboard which brings me to the reason I'm making this thread, how do I go about doing upgrading them, is it easy??, where should I buy new ones?, would you recommend me doing so?(like, are there any reasons NOT to) and what ones should I get? (if there is more than one type..)
I also did a quick Google search prior to making this thread and found another forum with a similar thread and I read that you need to update a ''BIOS'' and get a new Graphics Card if your gonna bother with upgrading a processor...I don't know what most of that means so if anyone can dumb it down for me it'd be much appreciated!! :)
A few details about my PC if it helps.
It's an Acer Aspire T180, 512MB RAM, 160HDD, OS is Windows Vista Basic. There's also a sticker on the front(I know, what a n00b:P) saying ''AMD, 64 Athlon-X2'' I dunno what that is but it might help you guys in answering my Questions.
Thanks you for reading all that lol !!!
Joe