HP pavilion a450n: Pavilion a450n

I added 512 MB ram now have 1 GB of ram. What is the best thing that I can add to speed up the processing and the internet? Upgrade the processor? If Yes to what?

Today's computing environment has kind of left the machine in the slow lane. You have a single processor core Pentium 4 3.0 ghz with up to 2 GB of RAM.

You can install a 3.4 ghz Pentium 4 with hyperthreading:

http://www.eBay.com/ITM/Intel-P4-3-4-socket-478-800M-FSB-3-4G-SL7E6-1M-L2-cache-/400176744118?PT=LH_DefaultDomain_0 & Hash = item5d2c6486b6

2 x 1 GB DDR 400 SDRAM:

http://www.eBay.com/ITM/G-skill-2GB-2-x-1gb-184-pin-DDR-SDRAM-DDR-400-PC-3200-dual-channel-Kit-deskt-/291286882231?PT=US_Memory_RAM _ & Hash = item43d20d17b7

Here is the Page with the plug from motherboard Support:

http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/c00063272

It supports SATA drives. Theoretically, you can install a RAID controller pci hardware and a decent AGP 8 x video card and have a computer very bit capable. $80 for 2 GB of RAM and processor P4 3.4 is frankly more than I would invest in it. In the day a 3.4 ghz P4 was very cool, but now there are cell phones and tablets that have equivalent computing power. Same low end Celeron desktop now on the market it will blow away in terms of performance.

There comes a day when obsolence hits us all.

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