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Don't fix that at all, it's not worth it. Basically just buy a ~$500 PC and you're good to go.

>1gb ddr2
>am2 socket mobo
wew lad. you could upgrade the ram, but ddr2 ram is comparatively expensive becase it's not reproduced anymore

there is no way you'll get fitting components factory new. hell, you'd have difficulty replacing some hardware that is only 2 years old, let alone this ancient machine. current hardware is roughly 6 generations ahead.

and if you replace anything with current hardware, you pretty much have to replace everything. can't replace the CPU without replacing the motherboard. replacing the motherboard means replacing the RAM and ideally the graphics card as well.

complete low-end systems are not that expensive. you can probably get a laptop for 200 bucks that is four times as fast as your old machine, just because technology advanced so much. i would honestly recommend buying a complete PC or notebook, since it usually comes with a current OS pre-installed.

XP's days are over. support has ended two years ago and it's becoming more and more unsecure. it also doesn't work with current 64bit hardware. problem is - it's probably the last system that could really run old Windows games. it sucks, when you want to play retro games a lot.

>>16879
It is possible but only if you invest the time to learn and you'll have to buy everything used. It's up to you if you want to waste money and time in upgrading an old ass machine. Understand that your computer's upgrade paths are very limited though apparently your mobo is AM2+ compatible so there are some low-end but decent CPU's that you could get. You'll probably would need more DDR2 ram and maybe even a low end GPU. All in all probably less than 100 bucks.

>i prefer to fix this one
is it broken?

you could get a refurbished thinkpad for <$200 that would be just fine for 4chan and playing retro games.