help me convince them

skateandbowl said:
oscaryu1 thanks for actually trying to help. I dont know if they will care that I'm stuck with a single core tho
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If you had $30 on hand you could easily solve that problem. An full reformat would immensely help too, as your old and unneeded files would disappear and you'd gain that computer's old speed back.
 
What I would do? Pop open the case, and dislodge the ram or something. That way it will not boot, and they might buy a new one to replace it.

But I would not do anything to actually destroy it, just in case they say, oh well, guess we can do without it for a year or so.


Then you say to them, Hey, how about letting me mess with it to see if I can fix it.
 
skateandbowl said:
hahaha thats a good one but I wouldnt do that
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The RAM suggestion was an good one. One day do some gaming, then turn it off, and take unloosen RAM, and make it beep like hell. Tell them that you "CPU overheated because you were playing an game at MAX settings", but do this like an week to lessen suspicion.
 
If it's primarily for The Sims 2 and other older games, one option would be to simply change the video card. If what you're using now is integrated SiS video with 64MB shared video memory, performance will suffer greatly (and loosing up to 64MB of system RAM isn't exactly great either, when you only have 512MB to start with).

A $25 video card such as http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161199 might tide you over until you can afford a new PC on your own. As oscaryu1 has said, reformatting will do wonders for system speed if you haven't done so since you originally purchased the machine.
 
ceewi1 said:
If it's primarily for The Sims 2 and other older games, one option would be to simply change the video card. If what you're using now is integrated SiS video with 64MB shared video memory, performance will suffer greatly (and loosing up to 64MB of system RAM isn't exactly great either, when you only have 512MB to start with).

A $25 video card such as http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161199 might tide you over until you can afford a new PC on your own.
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Thats a very good suggestion! I am sure you could talk your parents into that.
 
Earn some money and buy a nicer computer. If you buy a $500 computer, you will be in this same situation pretty soon.
 
i actually have 768mb of RAM, getting a video card is my only option for now, I will get a new computer when i can but for now i need a video card.

Can someone tell me which card is better???
 
Those cards you selected are OLD OLD OLD. I know you are on a tight budget, but getting one that old and slow would be worthless.

You would be much better off using a somewhat newer card (but still sort of out dated) than one of those. For $89 you could get one of these.

GIGABYTE GV-N76G256D-RH GeForce 7600GS 256MB

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125039

And that would run any of the older games at the highest settings, and it would run newer games at low settings.



Or you could get a cheaper card that would still run the older games at high settings, but not be able to run the newer games at all like the following one.

SAPPHIRE 100562L-GN Radeon 9600PRO 256MB

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102410
 
well, the card i have now is only 64mb and it would be able to run sims 2 at low settings if it was an ATI, so i figure a 128 would do fine for now..
 
Ok, go for it then. It will do better than what you have now. If you have no interest in playing any of the newer games at all.

And it's not just a function of how much ram is on the card. There are more aspects than that when picking a card to play games.
 
the card i had before I'm pretty sure was an ATI 64mb, and that ran the sims 2 pretty well at low settings, until i got a couple expansion packs. so a 128mb should run it fine right?
 
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