As the title says, what should i upgrade next? I have noticed my system is becomming alittle sluggish for my liking, and yes ive formatted ive just switched over from IDE to SATA 10k rpm drives so had to format.

So im just assessing my next upgrade. My thoughts are to double the ram but i dunno.

PC'S functions: Games, VB coding / Multimedia designing / general computer geek stuff.


heres my basic sys spec from that sysspec program:

Windows: Windows XP5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2
Internet Explorer: 7.0.5700.6
Memory (RAM): 2047 MB
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+
CPU Speed: 2418.7 MHz
Sound card: Creative SB Extigy
Display Adapters: RADEON X850 Series | RADEON X850 Series - Secondary | NetMeeting driver | RDPDD Chained DD
Screen Resolution: 1280 X 1024 - 32 bit
Network Adapters: VIA Networking Velocity Family Giga-bit Ethernet Adapter - Packet Scheduler Miniport
CD / DVD Drives: E: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-352B | F: LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-451S
COM Ports: COM1
LPT Ports: LPT1
Mouse: 5 Button Wheel Mouse Present (Optical)
Hard Disks: C: 34.5GB | D: 149.0GB | G: 233.8GB
Hard Disks - Free: C: 22.4GB | D: 123.8GB | G: 193.5GB
USB Controllers: 4 host controllers.
Firewire (1394): 1 host controllers.
Manufacturer: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
Product Make:
AC Power Status: OnLine
BIOS Info: ATAT COMPATIBLE 022306 VIAK8T 42302e31
Time Zone: GMT Standard Time
Battery: UPS detected
Motherboard: Welcome to Universal ABIT Co., Ltd. AV8 (VIA K8T800P-8237)
Modem: Not detected
Keyboard: G15 gaming keyboard
Monitor: Samsung 23" LE23R71BX, 2000:1 contract ratio, 8ms responce time.

you have enough RAM for XP (way too much). But if your thinking of going vista it may be worth upgrading although 2gb is sufficient.

I would think of getting a dual core processor and maybe a new GPU.