[Hidden-tech] CPU & RAM upgrade for PC?

[Tom Kopec]

as others have said, it's hard to tell what you can do without knowing 
more about the giblets you have.

My *guess* is that 4GB is probably the max for the mem controller on 
that motherboard.. but 3GB is generally enough memory..

I MIGHT have an athlon X2 dual-core processor in the basement somewhere, 
that would likely just drop in (unless the BIOS doesn't know what to do 
with it).. if I can find it you are welcome to it.

I don't know if W7 is like XP, which had different kernels for 
uniprocessor and multiprocessor systems.. if so there is a bit of 
hackery you may need to do to light up the second core.

You'll never make a screaming machine out of it, but it might still be 
useful.. I have an old emachines box with a single core (hyperthreaded) 
Intel somethingorother  and 1.5G of DDR400 memory.. it makes a perfectly 
serviceable media server, even though it is pretty slow by today's 
standards..

...tom

On 9/11/2014 1:36 PM, Andrew Bellak wrote:
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> I got the DIY bug and am considering trying to speed up an older PC.
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> I'm hoping y'all can coach me on doing it or just investing in a new PC.
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> I have an eMachines with 3 GB RAM and a 1.8 GHz AMD Athlon processor
> running Windows 7 64 bit premium.
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> Can I just but a new CPU and RAM and plug them in?
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> Thanks
> Andrew
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