[darkpuppet]

What's your budget?

Unfortunately, the system you have is really old, and not the most expandable, and any upgrades you find for it (like the 2x512mb pc2100 DDR chips) will cost a pretty penny if you can't find them used... so the cost to upgrade any of it isn't really worth it.

Actually, if you can I'd recommend a bare bones system with HDMI...

ie, $279:
http://www.pcvonline.com/productDetails....rodID=9827

you might be able to fit that into the your vaio case as it's micro ATX, but you can get a case with powersupply for as low as $60.

You could reuse your hdd's, and I could toss ya a used cd or DVD drive if you're forced into the new case and can't use the sony one you have.

If it's a socket 478, I may have a 3GHz process I can give ya too.. I'll dig around my parts bins and see what I have still.

So that's the upgrade path... if you give me a budget, I can price out something for ya -- hell, I'll even build it out.
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now, if you want to make it faster... what you need to do is set your virtual memory's maximum and minimum sizes to the same.

- go start, right click on my computer, and select properties.
- Click on the Advanced Tab
- Click on settings under the performance group
- Goto the Advanced Tab
- Under Virtual Memory, Click the Change button
- Select the radio button beside custom size
- set the initial size and max size to the Recommended size or 1024, whichever is larger. With initial and max sizes set the same, you should see a modest boost in speed as your computer no longer has to adjust the size of your virtual memory so much.

and maybe that'll get you by...