About four years ago I got a great gaming computer which died out on me about a year ago. I do not have the cash to fix it so I've been running off a old computer that was in my attic (its about 8 years old I believe) and its just ungodly slow.
I've done everything I can to speed up this comp short of putting it back to factory settings, which still won't help my problems.
What I want to know is if I can remove components from my broken comp to this one, and what problems I can encounter with this.
I also have virtually no experience with this kind of stuff, I don't even know what a video card looks like.
you might be able to take your broken computer then isolate the broken parts and just buy a new part
(might be expensive or might be really cheap depending on what broke, but if the psu broke you might have to do additional testing to make sure all your other components are all right)
or if you don't want to buy parts you could maby take your graphics card from gaming pc(if its not integrated into your gaming pc's motherboard) and put into your old computer. this would increase the performance a lot
another thing you could do is increase your ram in your old computer. ram is cheap just install it yourself because thats where companies that do that stuff make their money.
i doubt you could change your processor you wouldn't have the right socket and to get the right socket would mean taking out your whole motherboard(which might be broken) and putting it into the old pc
if you wanted to go on the software side you could install Linux, i loads faster than windows but might not be good if you have a job that requires a computer. it can take awhile to learn how to use a new OS efficiently
About four years ago I got a great gaming computer which died out on me about a year ago. I do not have the cash to fix it so I've been running off a old computer that was in my attic (its about 8 years old I believe) and its just ungodly slow.
I've done everything I can to speed up this comp short of putting it back to factory settings, which still won't help my problems.
What I want to know is if I can remove components from my broken comp to this one, and what problems I can encounter with this.
I also have virtually no experience with this kind of stuff, I don't even know what a video card looks like.
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I don't really know.
(might be expensive or might be really cheap depending on what broke, but if the psu broke you might have to do additional testing to make sure all your other components are all right)
or if you don't want to buy parts you could maby take your graphics card from gaming pc(if its not integrated into your gaming pc's motherboard) and put into your old computer. this would increase the performance a lot
another thing you could do is increase your ram in your old computer. ram is cheap just install it yourself because thats where companies that do that stuff make their money.
i doubt you could change your processor you wouldn't have the right socket and to get the right socket would mean taking out your whole motherboard(which might be broken) and putting it into the old pc
if you wanted to go on the software side you could install Linux, i loads faster than windows but might not be good if you have a job that requires a computer. it can take awhile to learn how to use a new OS efficiently