My new computer

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alilchubz

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hi all
i bought a new computer yesterday but its not new its refubished but its new to me i am planing on building it up into a gaming computer

the computer brand is IBM

all i no is:
Ram 512
Pentium 3
Windows xp home
servse pack 2
This is all i no

i wnt to make it a pentium 4 or higher, realy good sound and grapics

i want to do a computer techtion course soon maby next year i want to become a game programer one day.
 
Basicly your not going to be able to do much with that, how much money do you have to spend? you can build a decent machine for under $1000, but you cant turn a pentium3 into a high end computer. Scout over the many other peoples build plans on this forum, you will get a good idea of what you have to spend
 
i have $200 to spend i no i cant turn a pentum3 any higher i am looking at buying a new motherboard, cpu, gaming ram, graphic card and sound card
 
To be completely honest you might not even be able to run a majority of games with those specs even if you upgrade all those parts. Some parts might not even be compatable and with 200 this is not much you can do. Your best off building a system my friend.
 
for 200 bucks you're not gonna get a good upgrade. You're better off using it as is and saving up maybe another 300 bucks and build a new computer.
 
its all good
ill just use mum computer for playing games till i get the money

wat i am after is any thing with ram higher than 2gig and pentium 4 or high and a good graphic card and good sound card
 
all the games i want to get need pentium 4 or higher and realy good graphic cards and good sound cards my mums computer has an alright graphics card and sound card and its pentium 4 but only 256 ram so it dosnt alow the games
 
well motherboards have onroard sound so you dont realy need to worry about a sound card, but games these days requrie something faster than a pentium 4 such as a dual core, $200 might get you a cpu, or a motherboard but it wont get you a whole computer, I have just recomended this sstem to someone else on this forum,

From MSY
Asus P5K-EPU $135
Intel E8400 $209
2G Apacer 800 $46
Leadtek 8600gt 512 $81
W.D. SATA 160gb $51
Coolermaster Eilte RC-330 $69
Total $594
Save some money and buy something that will last you a while
 
the things i dont need are
hard drive
cd rom
case

things i need
A new motherboard
1gb or higher ram
3.2ghz twin proccer
graphics card

this is all goin by what my neibour has told me to make it better
 
Jhow said:
for 200 bucks you're not gonna get a good upgrade. You're better off using it as is and saving up maybe another 300 bucks and build a new computer.
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agreed. 200 bucks isnt going to get you far. And the comp sounds old, so you might not be able to upgrade it. My suggestion would be to build a whole new one or buy one.
 
its a 2005 modle it has all new parts that were orignaly in there for all i no

i was planing on geting all these days part and keep my case ill get som pics and post them on here
 
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These are the cheapest parts I could find, and they are far better than what you are sporting and within the range of your budget and what you're looking for. This build really doesn't allow you to upgrade much further nor is it of the highest quality... however it's within your budget. You said you only need a motherboard/processor/ram/video card so this is what I dug up. You will most likely need a new PSU (Power Supply) to support the new parts because I'm assuming yours is an old one.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ 2.3GHz Brisbane - $46.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103221

CORSAIR ValueSelect 2GB (2 x 1GB) - $39.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145034&Tpk=corsair+2gb+ram

ASUS M2N-MX SE Plus AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard - $49.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131249

CHAINTECH GSE85GT 512MB GeForce 8500 GT 512MB - $51.99 ($36.99 after mail in rebate)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...CHAINTECH+GSE85GT+512MB+GeForce+8500+GT+512MB

Hope this helps :)
 
guys, this is like the third thread of this, i have posted in other threads with a build, this is driving me nuts.
 
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