It looks as though you have a second generation (Ivy Bridge) i3 2120 (2 core) chip, 3.3 GHZ and Intel HD graphics 2000, with a pretty basic board (LGA 1155 socket) holding 1 PCI-E x16 (2.0), and 3 PCI-e x1.

It's a pretty inexpensive setup.

For instance, here's a ASRock MOBO for 55.99 with 1 PCI-E 3.0 (Good to have if you're wanting a good graphics card at some point), 3 PCI-E 2.0 slots (for whatever you may add on in the future), and 2 PCI. It'll support 32 GB of ram in four DIMMS. And that's just one option.

For the chip, you can get a i3 4150 which runs at 3.5 GHz and has the HD Graphics 4400. It too is a dual core, hyperthreaded chip; but you're jumping 3 generations of chip, so it'll feel pretty fast for you. It's priced at 80.99.

Throw a couple stick of DDR-3 memory in it for 29.99, and you're on your way.
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Note, the build is a LGA socket 1150 build, while you have a LGA 1155, so buy a build like this and then try to put the chip into your old board. I went with the 1150 because that socket is pretty ubiquitous, and at least according to the UK Newegg website I was on, is pretty much a socket no longer in use.

 

Thanks every one. So it turns out that it was the RAM that was bad, pc world quoted £28 for the exact same RAM (Hynix 2Rx8 PC3 10600U 4GB) is the RAM I had any good. I was happy with what I had before, is there much difference?
Thanks.

 

Don't really know what specific RAM you had before, but since it's DDR3 this should fulfill your needs. Because of compatability I also did some more research on the motherboard and found someone who put some Corsair Vengance on it, so the Crucial should also work just fine.

 

I'm having trouble again with my computer. It was fine last night, and I had to reset the fuses so I shut it down and when I turned it on again about 5 minutes later I had trouble. The computer loads and then freezes after a couple of minutes. I try to start a program such as google chrome and it works before the computer freezes, and after when you try to open a program nothing happens. If I try to click the star menu it freezes again.
I'm getting two different error messages.
"Windows explorer not responding" and "Windows didn't load correctly". When I control alt delete I get the error "failure to display security and shut down options". I've run Norton full system scan and command prompt scan now, and found nothing. I don't have a problem in safe mode, I can load all the programs such as google chrome, battlenet and iTunes just fine. How do I find which program is the problem? I haven't installed or downloaded anything. I haven't tried restoring the computer yet.

 

You could try "sfc /scannow" in command prompt, restoring windows to an earlier revocery point or try out Windows Repair from tweeking.com. Is it possible that your pc updated around the time when your problems started? If so, one of those updates could be responsible, so you could try uninstalling all updates that have been installed in that time.

 

Sacro's advice is good. Here's more on it from MS. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...er-tool-to-repair-missing-or-corrupted-system

If that doesn't work, you can reset the system back to the original. It will wipe out all your programs that aren't MS. However, it will leave all your files/docs where they are so you won't lose them.

 

Thanks, the system restore worked, however afterwards google chrome no longer opens, it lights up on the task bar but then it goes away. If I reinstall is there a way to keep all the saved bookmarks and passwords or will I lose them?