It may come as a surprise to some of you, but even as the owner of PC Perspective, my PC isn't always full of cutting edge technology. To the contrary, the system being replaced with the updated one shown below consisted of a P45 motherboard, Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor, GeForce 800 GTS graphics card, WD VelociRaptor hard drive among other things. It had been running Windows Vista since the operating system was first released with oodles of software installed and uninstalled. As is the case with any machine that gets used for a lot of purpose over the course of a couple years, the system was slowing and having software complications.
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