crappy computer to an average gaming one?

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nosferatu

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so yeah, I want to (if possible) give my crap of computer a little upgrade. I was thinking of probably buying an average video card(150-200$) and a 512 Mb RAM to bring it to 768MB RAM, and also buying a new hard drive. would this work or am I better off buying a new one?

here is my specs:

Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
OS Service Pack Service Pack 1
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Computer Name MYPC-XXM89B4AKW
User Name Owner

Motherboard
CPU Type Intel Celeron, 2000 MHz (20 x 100)
Motherboard Name Asus P4G533-LA
Motherboard Chipset Intel Brookdale-G i845GL
System Memory 256 MB (PC2100 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award Modular (08/27/02)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)

Display
Video Adapter Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller (64 MB)
3D Accelerator Intel Extreme Graphics
Monitor HP Pavilion V70S [17" CRT] (THTFB71090)

Multimedia
Audio Adapter Intel 82801DB(M) ICH4(-M) - AC'97 Audio Controller [A-1]

Storage
IDE Controller Intel(R) 82801DB Ultra ATA Storage Controller - 24CB
SCSI/RAID Controller D347PRT SCSI Controller
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive WDC WD600AB-22CBA1 (55 GB, IDE)

Optical Drive TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6402B (32x CD-ROM)
SMART Hard Disks Status OK

Partitions
C: (NTFS) 10003 MB (3270 MB free)
D: (NTFS) 47227 MB (32204 MB free)
Total Size 55.9 GB (34.6 GB free)
 
Don't spend money on that, it isn't worth it. Save up for a while, then build a new computer. There is only so much you can do to a system like that to upgrade it to current standards. Pretty soon you will be basically buying a new computer with everything you have to replace.
 
That 2GHz Celeron processor will really cripple your gaming abilities, a $150 video card would be wasted. You'd be better off to save up some money, even something like the $500 gaming system in Computer Specs 101 would run circles around your system, even with the upgrades you're proposing.
 
if i were u i would just use the money to buy a new cpu and motherboard and ditch other things and see if you can use the same case then u dont have to buy one.

new cpu,video card, ram,sound card maybe even a new hardrive they are cheap nowdays a 250gb is less than 100 on newegg.
 
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