Advice please: Can I upgrade PC much more?

[hrhkingcol]

Hi

First time posting, so be gentle...

I bought an Acer Aspire T135 a couple of years back and have put a bit more ram in it and a better graphics card since, but I'm now using an external drive a lot as my internal drive (a paltry 80gb) is chock a block. I bought a new internal 2nd drive at abou 40quid for 320gb but it won't mount so I'm planning on returning it.

It's got me thinking though; can I actually upgrade it much more and is it going to be worth it?

I ask because I only have 2 ram slots. One has a 1gb card in, the other has a 512mb in. When I look for a single stick of say 2 or 3 gb ram of the type of ram I have, I can only seem to find it max of 1gb per stick. So I have a couple of queries...

- My ram type is DDR 400MHz/PC3200. Is the biggest I can get this 1gb? Is that a restriction?

- The PC is: Acer Aspire T135 AMD Sempron 64bit 3100+. It now has a 128mb graphics card but it's still not running how I'd like it. Will I be able to improve this a lot more or should I do what I want to do and just get a decent-spec laptop?

Any thoughts much appreciated...

hrhkingcol

[123456]

Not really worth upgrading, IMO. I think your board maxes out at 2GB RAM, so if you bought another 1GB stick and replaced the 512mb one, you'd max out. As per video cards, you might find a good AGP card, but they;re clearly getting out of date right now. My advice: Save up for a new rig.

[hrhkingcol]

Hi 123456

Cheers for your reply; I've chatted to a few people and done a bit of research and you're bang right; 2GB is the best I can do. So rather than spending money to get the system up to 'decent' standard which will only really do another year or so, I'm investing in a decent laptop, most likely a Macbook pro.

Thanks again!

C

[123456]

No problem. Enjoy.