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I Was Thinking About Overclocking My Computer?

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I have an ancient computer that runs on Window’s 98 and I had to keep the monitor and all of the equipment because I can’t use anything else, and it only has 2 usb’s. But I figure hey, it’s still a computer, RIGHT? I was thinking I could put Window’s Vista on it, and hook up our second printer and maybe give it internet and all this other cool stuff so it could be usable instead of having to throw it away. Well I put it together and turn it on and I see that it only has 7.85GB of space and this computer I’m on has 586GB (Which, when we bought it the guy said it had a super large amount of RAM and could store basically everything you could want and imagine.)
Well, it came with an extra Window’s Vista CD incase the computer crashes which I was going to install on my old computer, and take off all of the Video Games I played when I was a little kid, and when I give it internet get some really good anti-virus software and remove all of the America Online’s something-point-oh.
But I was basically wondering if this is possible, it has a regular CD drive and a floppy disk drive, and such a small amount of space I don’t know if I can :s And it’s probably clogged up with viruses but I can just buy more Trend Micro… and get spyware, and adware, and malware blockers. And I can pretty much wipe anything on there but is my computer too old?
It’s a Hewlett Packard and probably has the graphic capabilities of a Nintendo 64.
Can I do this or do I just need to throw it out? I know a lot about computers, but not everything, but some things. Ty for answering. :)

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  1. Colanth Says

    1) RAM has nothing to do with storage. If that’s what he said, I’d do business elsewhere, since he doesn’t know any more about computers that anyone you’d stop on the street – and a lot less than some.
    2) Running Windows on an old Windows 98 computer is like trying to run the marathon with only 1 leg – and a cast on that one. Running Vista on the typical recent XP computer is an exercise in futility.
    3) You have to activate Vista or it stops working in 30 days. A used activation code (yours is used – it activated your Vista computer) won’t work on a second computer.
    4) Avast http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-… is as good as Trend – and it’s free.
    5) The most you can overclock a CPU in an old Win98 computer won;’t be anywhere NEAR fast enough to run XP, let alone Vista.
    Bottom line. Save the hard drive. Save the floppy drive. Save the CD drive. Save the case and power supply. The motherboard, graphics, CPU and RAM are pretty useless, unless you want to turn the computer into a printer driver, a router, a network attached storage server or something else that doesn’t require much power. (Most routers have 200MHz CPUs, 8MB of RAM and no graphics – super fast for DOS, but not much for Windows.)

  2. aXaTan Says

    Windows Vista is really bad on system resources, so I would use Windows 98 on the old computer, it is SIGNIFICANTLY faster.
    Yeah, I think the old computer would still be usable for surfing the web, using word processor etc. If you have anyway of re-installing Windows 98, I would backup any files I would want to keep to a removable media and format the hard-drive, then re-install windows. Most of the time cleaning up a PC like this speeds it up quite a bit (Especially, if it is clogged up with malware and/or other junk software).

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