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[cheekbones3]

It's that time again. My PC is getting a bit old and creaky, so I need to at least upgrade, and probably just get a new one.

I'm looking for advice therefore: I've currently got a 2GHz processor and 900MB of RAM, hard drive space is not an issue, I've got an external drive too.

Is it worth me upgrading what I've got at the moment, or should I just get something new and whizzy? I'm slightly concerned about the usual problems of transferring across all the stuff I've got running on this computer, and also because I'll be sticking with Windows, it seems like a bit of a limbo time to upgrade to Vista when it's supposedly crap and the new one's coming out later anyway.

Another thought, is it possible to port my current registered (!) Windoze XP to a new computer at all, possible via the external hard drive? I don't have the original disks, as I got this comp second hand.

I look forward to your tech consultancy pitches!

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[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Apparently I've got an emtpy slot (fnarr fnarr), currently got a couple of 512MB sticks in. I can double one of those and fill the third slot too...

Cheers for the advice.

In fact, I'm just looking at RAM updates, and the 1GB modules all seem to be 333MHz. Does this matter? I don't remember the 512MB running at this speed! I'm not convinced it does, just needing to be sure before I spend owt :)