R500 - worth upgrading?

[wenildexis5]

Currently using a R500 with the P7370 CPU, 4gb of ram and a ssd. It works okay, I would not say it is fast but it does the basic things I need. Some websites are slow to load but it’s very acceptable.

My question is is it worth it to spend 10-20€ and upgrade the cpu to a P8600 or P9600?

In terms of cpu benchmark score it’s a 150 and 300 points increase, its not much and I’m not sure I would see any change. 4gb ram seems fine, always using 2-3 but never more.

I’m hesitating to upgrade to a whole newer model for max 300€ but the current screen on my R500 is just glorious and the speed is acceptable.

Any thoughts?https://showbox.tools/

[mikemex]

Applause for you, for resisting the lure of consumerism. While old by what's available now, the R500 is still powerful enough for most tasks. And you can certainly bump it a bit more for little money.

If you really can get a P9600 for 20 GBP, I'd say go for it. You will certainly notice a frequency bump of 33%. I'd also check the SSD model because you're likely to have an old one and newer ones are so much faster. Most of the time the slow downs aren't caused by the CPU itself, but by the hard drive (the chain breaks at the weakest link). For that reason I'd also bump up memory to 8GB even if you don't need it; you don't want to risk running out of memory ever (and 4GB DDR3 modules are easy to come by).

Also, check my quick guide for optimization. On old machines software tweaking is vital to get decent performance during web browsing.

Myself, I still run an old X301. It's bumped to 8GB of RAM; the rest is stock (1.6 GHz and old 64GB SLC SSD). I really don't have complaints as it is, but an upgrade is always nice. That's why I'll be dropping a 400GB intel SSD on it next week. The extra space is more than welcome and I'm sure it'll feel much snappier.

[28CarsLater]

Currently using a R500 with the P7370 CPU, 4gb of ram and a ssd. It works okay, I would not say it is fast but it does the basic things I need. Some websites are slow to load but it’s very acceptable.

My question is is it worth it to spend 10-20€ and upgrade the cpu to a P8600 or P9600?

In terms of cpu benchmark score it’s a 150 and 300 points increase, its not much and I’m not sure I would see any change. 4gb ram seems fine, always using 2-3 but never more.

I’m hesitating to upgrade to a whole newer model for max 300€ but the current screen on my R500 is just glorious and the speed is acceptable.

Any thoughts?https://showbox.tools/

I think I literally spent $4.95 plus shipping for a T9400, if you like the computer its worth it but you will get more bang for your buck with an SSD. I would also max out the RAM, in Windows the 8GB max is barely adequate (Lubuntu more than enough though).