Originally Posted by
Rob_B
Its a Q6600 with an 8400GS and 2GB DDR2, it should be fine for everyday uage like I imagine your mother needs, hell I'd use that for everything but gaming however stick another few gigs of RAM in (check how many slots you have in CPUZ) or just open her up.
I'm assuming the low clocks in CPUZ are becuase the CPU is idling rather than having some issue where it's stuck at 1.6Ghz. Fire up something demanind then check CPUZ again just to make sure of that. A good reformat & some more RAM should do the trick, if its still slow then tricky, dying HDD?