hi, can anyone tell me what i need to do to update my processor? im finding games very laggy and it obviously drives me mad!! im learning all the time about my pc but im pretty new to buying and installing parts. answers in noob form for me please thx in advance,....bads

you need to go to the motherboard manufacturer website to determine exactly what chip socket you have and to whether it can be upgraded.

In most cases I look to see what a combo motherboard can be bought for that is compatible to what all other hardware is installed and swappable to the new one.

Give us the specs for your computer and we will see what is there. Also need to know what country you reside in!

hi lurkswithin,thx for the reply, hope i got this right ? by right clicking on my computer ive come up with this,......computer..AMD Athlon 1.08GHz, 1.50 GB of RAM, other stuff listed is NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900....processor ..x86Family 6 model 8 stepping 1 authenticAMD~1075Mhz..(service pack 2 ). im not sure if this is all the info you need? but as i said its all new to me and all help is most welcome, many thx again lurkswithin for your time. ps im in the united kingdom.

GO to your computer manufacturer or processor manufacturer website.

Well, That is part of what is normally referred to as specs. Mostly when someone asks for specs they are referring to:
1) computer manufacturer
2) Computer Model Number
3) Operating system
4) motherboard
5) CPU
6) memory (RAM....manufacturer/amount/speed)
7) graphics card
8 ) sound card
9) harddrives
10) Optic drives
11) anything special such as water cooled, major wattage power supply, SLI
any over clocking, dual booting.

The first two being the most important and should always be specified then the others being progressively less important or switched in importance because of the topic of conversation. In this case we are trying to determine the upgradeability of you computer. Thus the main specs that would need to be given would be:
1) computer manufacturer
2) computer model number
3) motherboard if known
4) CPU if known
5) operating system (this is important because most people don't realize
that they are using 64 or 32 bit technology!

thx again lurkwithin, ive been told recently that adding more ram to my pc will give me better performance when playing online? if this is the case i wont need to update motherboard, processor etc, is this correct as the source it came from is less than reliable? thanks,bads

hi lurkswithin and all, here is all the info ( i think )
Operating System System Model
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600) VIA Technologies, Inc. KT400A-8235
Enclosure Type: Desktop
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
1.07 gigahertz AMD Athlon
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: Welcome to Universal ABIT Co., Ltd. - Get ready for the Next Generation KD7A(VIA KT400A-8235) 1.x
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 08/19/2004
Drives Memory Modules c,d
120.02 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
87.07 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-308B [CD-ROM drive]
TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182M USB Device [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

Brother DCP-135C USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 1
WDC WD1200BB-22GUA0 [Hard drive] (120.03 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WMAL93133997, rev 08.02D08, SMART Status: Healthy
1536 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'DIMM1' has 512 MB
Slot 'DIMM2' has 512 MB
Slot 'DIMM3' has 512 MB
Local Drive Volumes

c: (NTFS on drive 0) 120.02 GB 87.07 GB free

Network Drives

Users (mouse over user name for details)

Controllers Display
Standard floppy disk controller
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
VIA Bus Master IDE Controller NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 [Display adapter]
hp L1702 [Monitor] (17.1"vis, s/n CNN40512X5, January 2004)
Bus Adapters Multimedia
VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller (3x)
VIA USB Enhanced Host Controller Vinyl AC'97 Codec Combo Driver (WDM)
Communications Other Devices





VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter
primary
HID-compliant consumer control device (2x)
HID-compliant device
USB Human Interface Device (3x)
HID Keyboard Device
Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
HID-compliant mouse
Generic USB Hub
USB Composite Device (2x)
USB Mass Storage Device (2x)
USB Printing Support
USB Root Hub (4x)
Virus Protection [Back to Top]

McAfee VirusScan Version 99.9.99
Realtime File Scanning On


hope this is correct this time, thanks again...bads

It isn't. I posted what is the most important things list in order of preference