I have a Yugo, 1976, red, black upholstery, with a 63cc engine with worn valves (please HOLD the snarky comments!)
My performance merging onto the Autobahn is pathetic.
How can I make this thing run lickety split, preferably with a drip-in V8 engine modification?
All depends on two things - what bus the motherboard has (PCI, PCI-E x1/x4/x8/x16, PCI Express? (I won’t mention VESA). Second is what is your budget. Once you know the facts of the first then the second will drive what you buy. Go to www.passmark.com and look at their graphics benchmarks - or www.tomshardware.com. Then go to Amazon and click, buy, boom.
Ah - one big thing - BIG thing - make sure you can get XP drivers for whatever card you buy. Check the company’s website - either going to be an AMD (used to be ATI) chip or NVidia - go to their sites for driver support.
btw - I DOUBT your computer is 213Ghz. :)
I’m too cash strapped to get something better, so I’ve got a piece of crap eMachine, too-and the graphics suck. Does yours us Invidia graphics? If so, my IT manager neighbor who fixes computers on the side tinkered with mine, but could not find a plugin or other fix for it-please let me know if you find one, where and how much-and thanks in advance...
What % of your memory is in use when you have problems? You can find this out by looking at Task Manager.
Why spend ANY money “fixing up” such an OLD machine? Junque it.
I just googled “what video card can my emachines t3092 take” and got a bunch of posts. Looks like it’s an AGP card you need.
Here’s a link to one guy’s journey:
http://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/video-card-and-ram-upgrade-question-350961/
not a snark but your problem lies in the lack of CPU power and insufficient memory to properly run XP (an obsolete OS). The AMD Athlon XP 2600+ is good for 444 Passmarks which puts it toward the low end of single CPU systems:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=AMD+Athlon+2600%2B&id=52
You’d be best off putting your money toward a newer (i3 or better) machine, Tigerdirect, Newegg, and others offer pretty good deals if you’re patient.
I don’t think an ‘upgrade’ will do much.
When I was using XP, my online/browser video got so sluggish, I could only have one at a time. My XP machine hard drive crashed.
I replaced that computer with a Win7 desktop, 12 Gb memory. Now, I can run multiple video windows with no problem.
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I fear soon we will be forced to go with Win10. I already have problems with some of those ‘mobile friendly’ websites. Their programming is crapola.
Optimize the software. You can’t fix the hardware.
Install Linux Mint 32 bit. You can’t run any modern version of Windows, which means you will get destroyed security-wise.
http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=189
You have no bios update. You have limited to no resources, which is where Linux shines and windows leaves you to rot. All of the apps you need and plugins are pre-installed on linux mint. Backup your documents to a usb/network drive and burn the iso to cd or usb(likely cd since it’s that old).
Your machine is so old, you should be able to get a better one for free. Just ask around. I have had old PC’s sitting in my closet that are better than that.
Your motherboard will support 2 DIMMS up to 2 gig. We can send you two 1G DIMMS I bet.
Install Lubuntu Linux along side the long dead XP
It’s a waste of time and money. Even the cheapest new computer will outperform that.
Microsoft isn’t supporting XP anymore and that machine is vulnerable. Antivirus software won’t protect an obsolete OS.
Get a new machine.
With the machine you described, you’re probably not going to get great video performance from modern webstreaming sites. They are all expecting newer computers that can handle HD streaming and have upgraded the sites accordingly.
It’s really not the video card that is going to be causing you problems with videos, that is more an issue for 3D graphics, like you find in computer games. What is causing your problem is mostly lack of RAM memory. One gig is probably around half the memory a video plugin will ask for in order to stream video nowadays, so your computer is probably being forced to compensate by using your hard drive for virtual memory, which means a big performance drop.
It’s not going to happen.
Your computer is the essence of obsolete. It has integrated graphics and it was born to be slow, it uses the 1ghz memory RAM you have.
I know money can be tight but, it’s highly unlikely you would find any parts. Computers change so rapidly and most computers as basic as yours have long been scrapped.
Do you have software that cleans the disk? I use Ccleaner and find it excellent, too much garbage on your computer will slow it down. Here’s a link to the specs of your computer, if other Freepers have any ideas.
http://www.cnet.com/products/emachines-t3092/specs/
You need to know the wattage of your power supply and the video card requirements. My video card says 400 watts as minimum while my work pc from Dell uses a video card that uses 30 watts. 30
I have a second XP computer, with a 4650 Radion Graphic Card.
That should make a big difference.