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My new computer is too slow!

Asked by sbriffe in General Computer Systems, Personal Computers

Tags: slow, computer, new, too, my

I just bought a new computer, an eMachines T3256 with an Athlon AMD XP 3200+ card with 1GB RAM and 400MHZ fsb, running Windows XP Home.  I also installed a SoundBlaster Audigy2 ZS sound card and an ATI Radeon 9550 256mb AGP video card.  I thought all of this would amount to a big upgrade in terms of processing speed and power and loading webpages & programs over my previous Sony Vaio PCG-FRV37 notebook, which had a P4 2.8ghz 512MB setup, but it seems to me that this computer is if anything about the same speed, if not slower, when it comes to starting up Windows, ripping CD's, downloading program files, and running programs.  As I'm not very familiar with computer specifications, I would like to know:
1. Did I do the right thing by upgrading to 1GB (2x512) from 512 on this desktop, or is it useless overkill given the rest of the hardware.
2. Same question re: the sound and video cards (it came with a 64mb video card installed).
2. Should this setup be faster than my old computer, given equal amounts of software etc. running on it?
3. Does my setup have any limitations on it's speed that I wasn't aware of compared to, say, a Dell Dimension 8400 P4 3.2mhz setup?
4. Is there anything I can/should do (either software or hardware) if I want faster performance loading webpages and running programs?

Thanks for your help.
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