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valid looper question- a bit of re-asking: sound cards and mike hum; CPUs

OK,  I've been prevented from doing music for a while because on one
computer- the O/S won't re-install.  I have two others- I'm trying to test
the sound card on one PC I have which I have assumed wasn't the appropriate
one, in the past (reference at the bottom of this letter).  I don't have
money to buy a new sound card right now- I could possibly charge one.

My other PC - this one- has a HUM when I plug in the microphone.

In the past, I had an HP Pavilion.  ALL of the vocals - even those that
sound, as far as recording- fine- though perhaps my voice isn't EXACTLY
right at all times- but all of the recording of my vocals at
http://www.mp3.com/miko were done on an HP Pavilion with its inherent
soundcard.  There was a slight hum but it was not so bad.

Recently I posed the microphone "hum" question to the list but the response
I* got was, basically- I need a pre-amp.  Those who provided this
information, thanks.  I still know nothing about pre-amps because a) I 
don't
have money to buy one now and b) I had success with a normal-ish HP 
Pavilion
sound card in the past, so I'm thinking that I don't absolutely HAVE to 
have
a pre-amp, but perhaps a better sound card.


I have two questions to ask, if I may:

1.  Does anyone no a non-pre-amp "trick" to eradicate microphone hum for 
the
microphone-in jack of a PC?

and

2.  If not, does anyone now plug his or her microphone directly into a PC
microphone-in jack and find yourself able to record without any HUM.


OK, and I decided I have a totally unrelated question that I'll ask in this
e-mail rather than in a separate e-mail.

I have a 500 megahertz PC and a 1.5 gigHz PC.  The 500 MHz PC has 256 megs
of RAM and the 1.5 gHz PC has 192 megs of DDR RAM.

I swear. it seems at times that the 500 mHz computer is faster.  I've been 
a
computer person for years but have sometimes detached real experience from
the "guidebook" predictions of which setups are better.

Would anyone say to me from experience that it's definitely possible that
the 500 MHz PC might the better multimedia PC, have a CPU of 1/3 the speed,
technically... With all of my experience with computers, I feel weird 
asking
this but- then again- I don't- I've spent too much of my life NOT asking
others enough questions...

Thanks in advance...

Regards,

MIKO

PS:  Can you tell that I got my brain re-adjusted today?