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Originally Posted by TidalWave
cant believe you are running on 512MB.
upgrading just the RAM will be a huge increase for you.
Go to 2GB....
No point in upgrading the size of your HDD. It sounds like its IDE anyways, so unless you completely replace your HDD with a new SATA one (if the motherboard even supports SATA) changing the size wont gain you any performance.
You could add a good video card for about $100... though, do you have one now or is it just the stock onboard video? If so I would add a new vid card to go along with your new ram.
Other than that, nothing else. Not much else you can do that will be a good value for money and gain on that machine.
More RAM, new video card, and a fresh OS install and that bitch will be blazing. Buy an external drive to backup your files too before the OS reinstall
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Awesome feedback, thanks man!
To everyone else, I love this machine, yeah 512mb of ram, DUBYA TEE EFF MATE!?!? It has worked fine for me with no problems... All I do is have Firefox, Dreamweaver, and Photoshop open 24/7 doing my work, but usually after 3 days, I gotta kill all the processes and start over due to mostly FF taking up tons of memory...
All I do is program with a little bit of graphics work, so I don't need anything super intense, I just wanted to bump up my ram a bit, and maybe a new video card to add an extra monitor or so... Hard drive is no biggy, I got a 80gb and I usually never go over 60gb before I do my quarterly fresh reformat.
I plan on buying a couple MacBook Pro's and some sweet ass Apple display's to hook up to them to make my main machine, but I've been running this dell for so long, pretty much since I started working online and It's been so great to me I don't wanna just ditch it all together... Even when I get my Macs I'll still throw some server software on her and use her as my local dev server.