FAO those of you who still keep up with PCs

Doki · 2006-08-21T10:06:19+00:00

I've got 512 megs of ram, a 1.3 or 1.4GHz Duron, an old Abit KT7A board running it all and an oldish Seagate Barracuda 80gig hard drive. Currently running a 370meg pagefile with about 60 megs of free memory. I tend to browse umpteen pages at once in opera and run OE, and want the PC to be a bit faster. I also do a bit of photoshoppery from time to time. I also seem to be running a ridiculous amount of CPU usage but that seems to be coming from Opera.Nowthen, is it worth shoving in another 512megs of ram? Is it worth me meddling with this DDR thing (IIRC I need paired DIMMS?). Should I just chuck it in the bin and buy a new box sans monitor etc.? I've got a nice monitor, keyboard, mouse etc. so there seems little point in laying out for an entire PC setup.OTOH, would just ripping out the ancient mobo and memory and shoving in a modern Asus, AMD chip (as they were cheaper last time I looked) and some new memory be worth doing? I've already got a decent PSU and case so most of the bits are already there... I have a feeling this might be dearer than just buying a new base unit though.I suspect the easiest and cheapest way to do this would be to reduce the amount of shite open in Opera...