So slow?

[gil]

My best friend bought an E-Machine about a year ago and it is the slowest POS I have seen since the 386 days.
It is running Vista Home (I think) with 512mb and a Celoron D 3.5 gig CPU.
How much ram would be needed just to speed it up some?

Any other comments welcome Thanks Gil

 

[zerocool84]

Crucial 2 x 1GB $14.99

There ya go. Vista loves ram.

 

[Quiksilver]

Ick. a Celly with low ram. You should just downgrade him back to XP until he deciedes to get a decent computer.

 

[Denithor]

Add the RAM to the existing amount (use 4 sticks instead of replacing what's already in there).

Downgrade to XP is an option if you've got a copy laying around, but upgrade the RAM first and try it out.

 

[sswingle]

I wouldn't even want to run XP on 512.

 

[vj8usa]

Originally posted by: Denithor
Add the RAM to the existing amount (use 4 sticks instead of replacing what's already in there).

This sounds like a T3612, and those have 2 RAM slots (with a single 512MB stick by default). It supports 2GB RAM max.

 

[themisfit610]

Yes. Add RAM.

Vista can run smoothly on a crappy CPU provided you give it enough RAM.

~MiSfit

 

[Blain]

Aren't there advanced performance options in Vista like there are with XP?
If so, turn down all the pretty eye candy.

 

[themisfit610]

There are, and I'd suggest running in the basic UI mode.

~MiSfit

 

[gil]

Thanks for the help.

He has 2 slots with a 2 gig max.
I think that 2 gig will be the best bet for now. Gil