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| 726889 | 2008-12-09 21:12:00 | A Gig Ram by the way. Will another Gig mean a hell of an improvement or not? As you can see, my requirements for a PC are quite basic, I'm not into heavy gaming, surfing, etc. A few emails, some gaming sometimes. I use the computer at work much much more than the one at home. Yup, Pctek, Myth said the same about the slots. Thanks for the ideas at this stage guys. sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 726890 | 2008-12-09 21:26:00 | Yeah, another gig would help. you'd see a pretty good performance increase IMO | Blam (54) | ||
| 726891 | 2008-12-09 21:51:00 | If you have 1Gig of RAM already, I would not spend any more money on your computer hardware. You will be best off optmising what you have. Run HJT, and delete everything apart from your virus scanner. Also turn off everything in the startup apart from your virus scanner. Two minutes later, after a reboot you could find yourself with a muck faster computer. |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 726892 | 2008-12-09 22:23:00 | Something I didnt see mentioned, Though you may be able to fit a high end video card into the motherboard slot. Be aware that some require additional power from the power supply via cables from the supply into the video card directly as they require more power than the slot on the motherboard can supply. How is this relevant? its very common for a machine to be supplied with a power supply that only really meets the needs of the machine in its original spec, if you add a more powerfull and more power hungry card to it you may risk drawing more power than the supply can handle and having your machine shut down when the system comes under load. Or in some cases your power supply may completely lack the 6pin plug that some of the video cards need. can normally use a 4pin molex to 6pin adaptor to solve that though. Trust me, this is really annoying and gets really lame quickly. Might not even be a factor in your case, but i find it pays to consider these things when planning an upgrade. |
kersonan (13264) | ||
| 726893 | 2008-12-10 00:20:00 | I dont think the 86GT as suggested requires the additional power... | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 726894 | 2008-12-10 00:54:00 | i confess, it was an elaborate ploy to give you an opportunity to sell that PSU Sol :) | kersonan (13264) | ||
| 726895 | 2008-12-10 01:46:00 | id agree, id have at least 512mb for an xp machine. I like to think my install is very lean, and even when I have firefox, visual studio and several other programs open, my ram usage is only 509mb. If you are playing games, have at least 1gb, preferably more. My computer is too old to play fast paced games, but good enough for turn based games like civ 4. Civ 4 uses about 1.2gb of ram, I'd expect newer, faster paced games to use even more. |
utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 726896 | 2008-12-10 07:49:00 | I dont think the 86GT as suggested requires the additional power... Nope It doesn't. I got my 8600gt on a 300w psu. I hate my computer for gaming. It just fails :x anyway for those games i'm sure even intergrated should be fine |
dian77 (13936) | ||
| 726897 | 2008-12-10 12:28:00 | A common setup to play most games without any problems has been 2 x 1 gig of ram for a few years now.;) Fix stuttering,slow loading time,slow respawn and makes games run/play smother and of course helps out your computer to respond faster as well. :thumbs: When you can get a 1 gig ddr2 800 ram stick for less then $20 on pricespy then its really a no brainer.:lol: Check out www.pricespy.co.nz for computer parts prices.:thumbs: So yeah I recommend 2 x 1gig ddr2 800 ram for $40. An 8600Gt sucks for playing good modern games!!!Forget about it!!! I would recommend these graphic cards for a cheap and very good upgrade to be able to play your games with great detail and high settings for 95% + of the games out at the moment!!!:thumbs: From www.pricespy.co.nz ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB graphics card $291.38 ATI Radeon HD 4850 1GB graphics card $377.21 GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB PCI-Express $318.71 Ps. If you got any of these graphic cards then you would have to make sure you had a decent psu for them and they do require to be connected to the psu for extra power to run them,but the graphic cards are very good for gameing and would be worth it IMHO!!! |
memphis (2869) | ||
| 726898 | 2008-12-10 20:27:00 | From www.pricespy.co.nz ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB graphics card $291.38 ATI Radeon HD 4850 1GB graphics card $377.21 GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB PCI-Express $318.71 Ps. If you got any of these graphic cards then you would have to make sure you had a decent psu for them and they do require to be connected to the psu for extra power to run them,but the graphic cards are very good for gameing and would be worth it IMHO!!! I dont think it is worth adding one of these cards to a Sempron 1.8ghz. |
utopian201 (6245) | ||
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