Dell upgrade

[Brozza]

My wife has an older Dell Optiplex 750 with OM5DCD M/B, core i5 2400 and 4GB DDR3 RAM (10700 667MHz) running Win7 pro.

She's always complaining about how sssslllllloooooooooooooooww it is, especially when on farcebook, but internet speeds are 30MB/s - 11MB/s (down/up) with 17 ms ping.

Farcebook, Amazon and emails are main tasks.

Is it worth upgrading either the CPU, RAM or both, or just go with newer budget pc?

[Sauron]

The single best upgrade for a machine like that is to add an ssd. The cpu should be just fine for facebook, at worst you may have to add some ram but I would bet an ssd will already make a huge difference.

[Brozza]

So you think that the data transfer rates to the HDD may be the culprit?

(300GB ST500DM002 ATA with 220GB of free space) if that helps.

[jaslion]

1 minute ago, Brozza said:

So you think that the data transfer rates to the HDD may be the culprit?

(300GB ST500DM002 ATA with 220GB of free space) if that helps.

Add an ssd and 4 more gb of ram and it's gonna be fine.

[Brozza]

Cheers, will look to replacing HDD and adding more RAM then.

[Sauron]

9 hours ago, Brozza said:

So you think that the data transfer rates to the HDD may be the culprit?

Yes

[Dr0y]

Yes ssd for the win.  Get a nice samsung 860 evo or a crucial mx 500 ...

Another 4gb stick for a nice 8gb of ram ... be sure to have 2 stick so it can run dual channel, that will also help a bit.