Try this.

It's the company I'm planning on buying my computer from. They cater mostly to gaming, and they seem to go for a decent price.

Steroids.
Kidding. i'm no help lol.

Oh and you can always add more ram I guess.

well from what my friend told me having dual or more processers is good for multi tasking and more ram never hurts XD

Rrrrf... at that age, I don't know if there's a whole lot you can do to really spice it up. Normally I'd say multi-core CPU or more RAM, but those would require a new motherboard, and in turn, new... most everything else internal. It's the same problem I had between 2005 and early '08... I couldn't upgrade one thing meaningfully without having to replace everything.

It depends how old it is!

Mine is going to be turning 5 years old by the end of the year.

and since it's that old , the motherboard is incompatible with the new stuff .

For example : My memory is still DDR and not DDR2
My hard drives are IDE and not SATA
I can't put a new graphics card because the motherboard doesn't
accept the new ones out there..

So basically I would have to buy a new motheroard with a new power supply most likely and all the other stuff..

in the end it's cheaper and wiser to just buy a new one ..

but if your is fairly recent i guess there's shouldn't be too many problem to upgrade it.

I suggest buying more memory and maybe a better video caard.

Hmm, it says on the sticker here that mine is DDR RAM and SATA hard disk *_* So I'd have to buy DDR RAMs?

use a program called pcwizard 2008 (its freeware with no spyware/malware) It'll give you info on what motherboard you have. Then look up your board to find out what type of ram your system runs on. (ie. pc2700, pc3200, pc5400, etc)

http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php

if you indeed have DDR memory it might be had to find.

Omg I so had deja vu reading your comment, that's the same boat I'm in with my current PC.

*blink* My laptop's even older than yours X'D

Newegg.com probably has what your looking for. See how much RAM your system can handle and then max it out; it took five minutes and my laptop runs like a dream now; though it does get a little laggy if I try to do everything I normally do AND photoshop....it's sort of a "work" or "play" kinda thing, not both at once.

btw it's important to know how much ram your computer can actually account for; my little HP pavilion 4500 tops out at 1 gig, I've got it at about 3/4 of that. Yours may be able to handle more, judging by the processor.

Oh, right, also: making sure things like spyware and even legitimate windows programs aren't eating RAM you could be using helps, as per onthemark's suggestion on your blog. Also, if you need more storage, that's easily solved with an external hard drive. They're pretty handy, usually occupying a USB port. I love my WD myBook 250gb, and it wasn't (terribly) expensive considering I've had it nearly two years now.