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post Feb 7 2009, 12:51 PM
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I need your help.
I have a 2.2ghz intel celeron procesor.
I was suprised by how many ghz though cause it came with 128mb ram. but it currently has 500mb ram.
Its prety slow and laggy running ubuntu and i want to speed it up.
using overclocking.
How can i do this safely and whats the how high should i overclock it or whatever. It has some 10 yr old crappy loud fans. So the cooling is prob pretty bad.
Should i open it up? O and this computer is ancient so im not to worried if something goess wrong.
 
 
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post Feb 7 2009, 01:33 PM
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You can also get ram really cheap, too. Just make sure your motherboard supports DDR2, otherwise you might have to get regular DDR(i think).
 

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JosephCohen123   overclocking...   Feb 7 2009, 12:51 PM
9001   I wouldn't suggest overclocking something that...   Feb 7 2009, 12:57 PM
kryogenix   Would you be willing to spend a little bit on fans...   Feb 7 2009, 01:00 PM
JosephCohen123   Actually its about 5 years old. and everything is ...   Feb 7 2009, 01:04 PM
9001   No, it's pretty good for a 5 year old processo...   Feb 7 2009, 01:21 PM
JosephCohen123   Then maybe its not such a bad idea keeping this ba...   Feb 7 2009, 01:24 PM
9001   Well you can get a 1 Terabyte external hard drive ...   Feb 7 2009, 01:30 PM
kryogenix   You can also get ram really cheap, too. Just make...   Feb 7 2009, 01:33 PM
JosephCohen123   Im pretty confused about the ddr ddr2 stuff. Whats...   Feb 7 2009, 01:36 PM
9001   Open up the case, pull out the RAM, and take a pic...   Feb 7 2009, 01:39 PM
JosephCohen123   Actually I dont think im gonna try and make this c...   Feb 7 2009, 01:42 PM
9001   It would be 500mb.   Feb 7 2009, 02:02 PM
JosephCohen123   I took the pictures and ill post them later. Its w...   Feb 7 2009, 02:27 PM
9001   One of the sticks might have been in backwards or ...   Feb 7 2009, 02:32 PM
JosephCohen123   Awesome!Now i just gotta buy those 20 inch mon...   Feb 7 2009, 02:37 PM
9001   Cheap LCD monitors are hard to find. I've bee...   Feb 7 2009, 02:45 PM
JosephCohen123   Is a crt those old big monitors? Dont you currentl...   Feb 7 2009, 02:52 PM
9001   QUOTE(JosephCohen123 @ Feb 7 2009, 01:52 ...   Feb 7 2009, 03:01 PM
JosephCohen123   I and i still need someone to tell me how to overc...   Feb 7 2009, 03:14 PM
9001   http://www.ehow.com/how_11503_overclock-cpu.html   Feb 7 2009, 03:18 PM
BOSS   QUOTE(JosephCohen123 @ Feb 7 2009, 09:51 ...   Feb 7 2009, 04:11 PM
JosephCohen123   Its an old crappy desktop! My current computer...   Feb 7 2009, 04:39 PM
BOSS   processor*   Feb 7 2009, 04:42 PM
JosephCohen123   QUOTE(BOSS @ Feb 7 2009, 03:42 PM) proces...   Feb 7 2009, 04:51 PM
JosephCohen123   I think my motherboard doesnt allow me to change a...   Feb 7 2009, 05:22 PM
JosephCohen123   Ok ill also take a picture and ill also post the p...   Feb 7 2009, 05:25 PM
illmortal   Hate to break it to ya, but no point in tryin to o...   Feb 11 2009, 11:57 PM
JosephCohen123   Well I found a computer wit a Athlon X2 5000 Dual-...   Feb 12 2009, 11:55 AM
9001   The E5200 is 2.5 GHz. There's Intel fanboys a...   Feb 12 2009, 11:58 AM
JosephCohen123   Then I think im sold on getting the Athlon X2 5000...   Feb 12 2009, 12:01 PM
9001   You're probably going to need a cooling system...   Feb 12 2009, 12:03 PM
JosephCohen123   O im talking about a already made computer! Im...   Feb 12 2009, 12:30 PM
9001   It depends on the computer. If you have a laptop,...   Feb 12 2009, 12:49 PM
JosephCohen123   If im gonna be upgrading the proccessor and ram sh...   Feb 12 2009, 01:12 PM
illmortal   QUOTE(JosephCohen123 @ Feb 12 2009, 01:12...   Feb 12 2009, 03:15 PM
9001   Not really. There's other parts to a computer...   Feb 12 2009, 01:24 PM
JosephCohen123   Unfortunatley I dont know where I can get any spec...   Feb 12 2009, 06:31 PM
9001   Where are you buying from then?   Feb 12 2009, 07:12 PM
JosephCohen123   walmart...I mean for what i'm doing this: http...   Feb 12 2009, 07:22 PM
9001   http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...kard-...   Feb 12 2009, 07:29 PM
JosephCohen123   ^Thats the same thing but 20 bucks less. And i nee...   Feb 12 2009, 07:41 PM
9001   2.6GHz dual core is better than most. That one ...   Feb 12 2009, 07:46 PM
JosephCohen123   My current laptop has is a intel pentium duel core...   Feb 12 2009, 07:48 PM
9001   It displays the stats better. The one from Wal Ma...   Feb 12 2009, 07:55 PM
Just_Dream   GE Force 8800 runs Crysis decently. :D /spam lul...   Feb 13 2009, 12:56 PM


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