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(07-16-2010, 12:03 PM)Focus man. Focus. Wrote: So I have bought a new monitor. Well not a new monitor, more like a new TV. An Insignia 46" 1080p HDTV. I have moved my old mini tower up from its unused location in the basement and connected it to the TV. Now a couple questions.

How can I make this relic faster?

And Does a wireless keyboard need line of sight to the reciever to work correctly?

Current specs of my computer:

Sony Vaio PCV-RX650
Pentium 4 1.6GHz
512MB Ram (2 X 256)
2 X 80GB Hard Drives
Windows XP

I am no computer geek although I did add the second HDD. This computer will mostly be used for internet surfing and such. What would be my best option for increasing my systems performance, other than buying a new computer.

Thanks in advance. Kevin

Congrats on your purchase.

1) more ram should make it faster, i would check the motherboard to see how much RAM it supports. I know a lot of older ones with those specs only went up to 1GB.

2) Any wireless keyboard/mice that operates on RF should not need a line of sight. Stay away from the infared ones, there have been reports that they do not work well around flourescent lights, or the backlight from an LCD/Plasma tv, etc..

3) You may want to re-format it and fine tune it to only run the services that you reallly need such as tcp/ip, your web browsers, e-mail clients, etc..

That should help.