Bad prossesser, need help!

Incubus

Incubus

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Is there any way to improve the processer in any way without buying anything new or Overclocking?( Im thinking about it but I dont wanna **** up my computer. ).

Ive been egar to play Half life 2 but after I bought It, It wouldnt play because ive got a crappy Intel Celeron 1200MHz processer. Any clue if theres any way to go?
 
Did it give you an error message, or was it just running at intolerable speeds?

Other than clearing out any excess processes running on your computer there's not really any way to improve CPU performance besides upgrading or overclocking that I'm aware of.
 
Sorry but your CPU won't run HL2 at any acceptable framerate. I liked the the Tualatin Celerons and I've had a couple of them myself. While their 256KB L2 is nice, their FSB really strangles them.

HL2 is pretty CPU bound so such an old chip just won't do. It can be overclocked though to a certain degree depending on what Motherboard your running. Just don't get your hopes up for HL2.
 
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Emachienes T1120

Original Specs:
Intel® Celeron® Processor 1.20 GHz (w/256KB)
Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition
Intel® 810e Chipset
256 MB SDRAM (PC133)
40 GB HDD 1
Built-in 16x Max. CD-RW Drive; 3.5" 1.44MB FDD
Intel® Direct AGP 3D (810e shared)
AC '97 Audio
56K ITU v.92 ready Fax/Modem
Keyboard, Mouse, Stereo Speakers
3 USB ports (1 on front), 1 Serial, 1 Parallel, 2 PS/2, Audio In & Out; 1 Midi/Game on front, Mic-In & Head Phone jack on front


Everything is the same from the original except the video card (Geforce 5500 FX 256mb) and the sound card. (5.1 Surround Santa Cruz)

Im thinking about getting a Alienware or The new Emachienes and putting my sound and video cards into the comp.
 
There is no way you could play HL2 with that computer, its a Celeron 1.2Ghz, only 256MB ram, and onboard video. If you wanted to play HL2, you would need to upgrade your cpu, memory, and video.
 
You'd also most likely need to upgrade your motherboard seeing as how your ram is SDRAM and not DDR.
 
Even with a fast video card there is no way that you're going to smothly play a demanding game such as Half-Life with an older celeron processor. You failed to mention if your system is using an intergrated video controller and if so that would be the end of it, there would be no chance that you could play Half-life without a new motherboard, video card, and faster CPU.
 
You failed to mention if your system is using an intergrated video controller and if so that would be the end of it, there would be no chance that you could play Half-life without a new motherboard, video card, and faster CPU.
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He did mention it and he could play HL2 just not at a framerate he'd find desirable.
 
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