Do you think this will help much?

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loopmarine

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Hi, Its my birthday and I dunno what to get so I'm looking into upgrading my computer. Its ok, but it can't play games very well. The very latest games run slowly even on the lowest settings :(. I'm not too farmiliar with specs and all that but here is what DxDiag tells me:

Processor: Intel (R) Pentium (R) D CPU 2.8 Ghz (2 CPUs)

RAM: 1GB

Graphics card: Geforce 7300 LE 512MB

I did a bit of research and I found that I can afford upgrade to a 3.0 Ghz dual core, 2GB RAM and a Geforce 9500 1GB card for about £250. I was wondering whether it would be worth it-

How much difference would it make to my gaminG? Will I be able to play the very latest ones on high settings?
 
if your talking about 3.0 ghz pentium D, more more gig of ram and that video card.....on the same motherboard? im guessing this card is a pci E card... If your motherboard has it would be an upgrade but I dont think its worth 250 pounds... for 400 dollars you could build a better system, I dont know how it is up there in england in prices.

Id say no
 
Would you see a difference in gaming? Sure. Could you play them on high settings, nope. Is it worth it, nah...

As mtb mentioned, the upgrade isn't really worth it in the long run. For the same price (or not much more) you could probably build yourself a new machine that'd easily outperform your current.
 
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Have you installed graphics cards and Ram before, the Power Supply and Case to motherboard wires were the harder parts for me, its a good learning experience. Id just ask someone to create a gaming build for 400 dollars or less.... I would do it for you but I havent built a pc in a while and I would not know if to go athalon or Core 2 duo....

I just built one in newegg, 397 dollars, That was without a HD, Case or CD Rom/Dvd R
 
mtb211 said:
Have you installed graphics cards and Ram before, the Power Supply and Case to motherboard wires were the harder parts for me, its a good learning experience. Id just ask someone to create a gaming build for 400 dollars or less.... I would do it for you but I havent built a pc in a while and I would not know if to go athalon or Core 2 duo....

I just built one in newegg, 397 dollars, That was without a HD, Case or CD Rom/Dvd R
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You could get an Athlon II x4 with $99 :D
 
Do not upgrade the CPU. It just waste of money.
Video card and RAM would worth upgrading. What PSU have you got?

Or may be full upgrade of CPU + Mobo + RAM + Video card?

AMD Athlon II X4 620 2.6GHz AM3 Retail Boxed Processor
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/173368

MSI 770T-C45 AMD 770 Socket AM2+ 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/175765

Kingston 2gb Kit (2x1gb) Ddr2 800mhz/pc2-6400 Hyperx Memory Non-ecc Low-latency Cl4
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/128662

MSI HD 4850 OC 512MB GDDR3 Dual DVI Out PCI-E Graphics Card
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/172948
 
Thanks for all the advice guys- I'll look into building my own computer. I was also wondering if it would make much difference to clear up my current hard drive? I have 100GB total memory space and about 50GB of it is used up. Would cutting this down help? I've tried removing things, but there doesn't seem to be much on my computer that I can find to remove :S is there any possible way of wiping my computer of all of the files except the ones of my choosing? casue I wouldn't want to lose MS Office and Norton antivirus
 
Taking things off your hard drive wont really help, unless you are taking the right things off. For example taking off some music or a game won't do anything because they aren't running or anything, just sitting there. However if you were to remove something that actually runs in the background then it would help, how much depends on what it is.

One thing you can do is go to Start, then run and type in msconfig and choose the startup tab at top. Uncheck everything except your antivirus stuff and that will keep programs from starting up with the computer, when you want to use them just open the program.
 
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