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New Vista user, need Office help
Cantido
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My 6 year old clunker died a week ago, so I ordered a refurbished Athlon immediately off TigerDirect. I have a few software questions...
It says that I have an Athlon 2.4 Ghz processor, so it's a bit better than my last comp. The video card is an NVIDIA GeForce 6100 GPU, so I get to play some games I haven't been able to in a long time. (Myst 4
.) I have available PCI Express and PCI Express x 16. I don't know whether I should grab a better card or wait until I can make a computer with a better processor.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3876425&Sku=M975-W5243
How "far" should I upgrade on this machine?
I got to download Office 2007 for free though my college with the Microsoft Academic Alliance, and it provided me with a Product Key for it, so I was able to install it, but Word, Powerpoint, and the rest also require a Product Key, and I tried it, but the installation product key does not work on the rest. Does anyone remember if each Office program has it's own product key before I make a feeble attempt to get help from Microsoft?
It says that I have an Athlon 2.4 Ghz processor, so it's a bit better than my last comp. The video card is an NVIDIA GeForce 6100 GPU, so I get to play some games I haven't been able to in a long time. (Myst 4
.) I have available PCI Express and PCI Express x 16. I don't know whether I should grab a better card or wait until I can make a computer with a better processor.http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3876425&Sku=M975-W5243
How "far" should I upgrade on this machine?
I got to download Office 2007 for free though my college with the Microsoft Academic Alliance, and it provided me with a Product Key for it, so I was able to install it, but Word, Powerpoint, and the rest also require a Product Key, and I tried it, but the installation product key does not work on the rest. Does anyone remember if each Office program has it's own product key before I make a feeble attempt to get help from Microsoft?
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you can add a gig of ram for 40 bucks (replacing the 2 you have in there since you only have 2 slots)
and get a cheepo graphics card for 20 bucks and have a decent machine from 2-3 years ago.
i wouldnt do much more with it though.
as far as office 2007, there are 2 ways to install it, 1 you can have the suite which will have a cdkey for the basic programs (word excel etc.) and a different cd key for the extras. or you can install JUST word with the word CD key. im guessing thats what you did.
PS. tiger direct sucks
The 6100 is not 'optimal' for built in graphics as it borrows from your memory subsystem, though it serves well enough. If you find it's unstable, buy a little 5$ BIOS fan and stick it onto the GPU's heatsink on the motherboard (61xx are almost always passively cooled... and they run too hot for it. I tossed fans onto all the 61xx using systems I've built and it improves stability markedly.)
I'd probably do 2 gb of memory as the previous poster said and grab an older card. I picked up an X850 XT PE for just about nothing the other day just so I'd have something to toss into tertiary systems to turn them into something fairly gaming capable. It's not shader 3 capable, which might be one of the reason there's an influx of them online right now (it seems like there is.)
Unless it uses DOS or you're running a x64 version of Vista games will run. They'll just need a bit of tweaking sometimes setting them to run in admin mode or setting compatibility to XP/98.