Do I need a new CPU?

[Samkeele]

Hey everyone, I'm getting ready to switch to Vista and all this upgrading is getting addictive and I just want to know if I need a new CPU or if I just want one. I have a Home-made (from bare bones) PC with a Gigabyte mother board that has a AMD Athlon 1.333ghz cpu on it. I have up'd my Ram from 256megs to 1.75gigs and I have a Radeon 9600 vid card and a soundblaster live sound card, and a 200gb hard drive. I just recently verified my Windows and installed SP2 and now It is acting slow. I think maybe it is just the new sp but also maybe I have too much RAM. I never thought I would say that...
Anyways please help me out. Thanks

Your PC mother board must be able to operate at 2ghz and above to be able to use vista! your best bet is to upgrade by building a new computer!
Vista requires, a min of 2.0 ghz normal clock speed CPU to work, and 2gbytes of memory, a fast express graphics card, PCI-E X16 etc, which means a CPU type that is quoted at 3.4ghz or greater is required! Also the power supply must be at least 350 watts or better a 400 watt psu.
My advice is to forget Vista as it will not work on the existing computer and stick to win XP home or professional They both run ok at 1.33ghz and will work with most XP old and current programs. Good Luck. PAJ.