Upgrading a low end pc to game!

Well, it's a celeron D processor, and it is unknown if the motherboard that comes with that system will support a faster chip, The Celerons are not what you would call a gaming CPU. So that would need to be upgraded.

The Intel GMA950 onboard video card is crap, but you can upgrade with a new card, so that's ok. And it only has 512 of ram, Vista needs at the minimum 2 gigs to run at it's best.

So for $199, you will be getting a case, keyboard, mouse and a harddrive.

Not worth upgrading at all! You would be much better off just starting from scratch and building your own.

That system would be ok for surfing the web, email and that's about it
 
eMachines are crap machines as bad as Dell. At least Dell is now offering your choice of OS when buying one of theirs new. That will never be anything close to a gaming system since it lacks too much to start off with. Just for a start you are most often hearing those with 2gb of ram and a much larger power supply for powering one of the newer model video cards available.

For a gaming machine you will spend far more trying to upgrade that then you would building a new mid range case adequate for running any of the games out. Prebuild systems seriously lack when it comes to seeing a good gaming system as it is. Those like Dell and even Gateway tend to be at the bottom of the barrel quality wise. I ismply have to state the simple facts here.
 
Well, it won't be the best gaming machine, but has the potential to be a pretty light gaming machine. You'll first need to get more RAM, you can pick up a gig of ram for like $30 bucks at Newegg. Then you'll need a video card. Seeing that the powersupply is probably weak, a 7600GS/GT would be nice. So all in all $120 would make the computer some what gamable, but don't expect any miracles.
 
i wouldnt recommond getting that...if you could afford something with at least a gig of ram and like a pentium 4 that would be alittle better
 
notsmart101 said:
i wouldnt recommond getting that...if you could afford something with at least a gig of ram and like a pentium 4 that would be alittle better
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The ram isn't a problem as they cost next to nothing, but as for the P4, I think a cheap sempron/Athlon 64 rig would do better. You should check out the post I made where I listed a light gaming rig for about $300, letme go find the link.

edit: ah here it is..

My post
entire thread
 
Ok
Well my Pos dell xps 410 plays WOW,UT3,and americas army flawlessy with no lag and it only has 1gb of ram and a nvida 7300le gcard, dual core 1.73 does help but its not the best but celeron d runnig at 3.33 is pretty fast and i would oc it to 3.5 ghz and throw in 2gbs for sure(first upgrade) then get a new proccesor as a second upgrade then a new case and psu.
 
lanpartiercarter said:
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Well my Pos dell xps 410 plays WOW,UT3,and americas army flawlessy with no lag and it only has 1gb of ram and a nvida 7300le gcard, dual core 1.73 does help but its not the best but celeron d runnig at 3.33 is pretty fast and i would oc it to 3.5 ghz and throw in 2gbs for sure(first upgrade) then get a new proccesor as a second upgrade then a new case and psu.
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But do you know if the motherboard that comes with that system will support an upgrade to a different processor?
 
Well if you know how to overclock and you are sure this is what you want, then go for it.


But I already told you what I think of it.

And yes, it might play UT3 at the lowest settings, but with that onboard video card, I doubt it.
 
Ok paratwa
well i have little money to spend and this would be a christmas gift and i would upgrade probably the ram and the gcard and then the most exspensive the cpu
but I apreciate your thoughts and i know its not the ultimate computer but it can be upgraded cheap to be decent
 
One other thing is the version of Windows you plan to run on it. Forget Vista! Plus from what I've seen from working on eMachines the support is crap for them. Those are merely things to throw on shelves at Walmart or other discount retail stores. Once you start upgrading this and that you will still end up paying as much if not more for what you would see in a custom case or better prebuild.
 
1. Rosewill Steel Mid Tower Computer Case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147074 ($21)
2. Biostar GeForce 6100 Socket AM2 Micro-ATX Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138052 ($45)
3. AMD Athlon 64 Socket AM2 X2 4000+
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103774 ($66)
4. Corsair Value Select 1GB DDR2-677 Memory
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820146580 ($24)
5. EVGA 7600GS 256MB 128bit video card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130075 ($65)
6. Excelstor 80GB SATA 7200RPM 8mb buffer Hard Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822210003 ($37)
7. Hipro HP-W430PA3 ATX True 400 watt Power Supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817174019 ($30)
9. Lite-On Black DVD/CD Burner
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106228 ($28)



Total is around $316 after MIR before shipping. It's cheaper than the computer you're looking at after upgrades, and it's more balanced.
 
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ive had that same asus pc eye is talking about it it was a nice board...ive also had a biostar before not that same one but similar and it was pretty decent as well for budget boards between those 2 i dont think you could go wrong

diduknothat deffently has a better build then that emachine would be IMO...ive also owned an emachines and it was complete junk
 
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yo dude, how about you tell us how much you can spend in total and u build it, it is so easy you wouldn't imagine, and we can walk you through everythin.
 
xxxalpinexxx80 said:
yo dude, how about you tell us how much you can spend in total and u build it, it is so easy you wouldn't imagine, and we can walk you through everythin.
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That's a practical suggestion since at least there you can plan out the best combination for the resources available. :D
 
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