Help, my PC can't run any decent game

[zexen_lowe]

Flow said:

haxxiy said:

Flow said:

haxxiy said:
Radeon HD 4830 - 75 bucks at newegg
Phenom X4 9500 - 90 bucks at tigerdirect

Here's your help.

 

I'll take a look at these, thank you, but you think it's all i need?

 

Are you running XP I assume? Well if you want to run some up to date games (like Crysis, Fallout 3 etc.) I would recommend at least another 1GB of RAM. Anyways it shall work fine most of time.

Edit: and be sure to have a PSU of at least 350W. 30 bucks stuff.

 

Yep, i use XP, should i get Vista?

1GB of ram should work fine with my current pc or if i get the stuff you recommended me?

Well, there goes my new guitar savings! :(

 

 

I have no clue of what half of them are, and since it's been a while since i last formatted i think it's better to do this

NO, don't get Vista by any means. If your games can't run, getting Vista is the worst thing you can do.

And getting RAM won't help you, the RAM you have isn't the best, but it's decent, most games (except the newest) require no more than 1GB. By far the weakest link there is the processor, it's slow, that's why games don't run, not for the RAM. This is why I suggest a new PC, if it were just a RAM or graph card problem, I'd just suggest upgrading, but when it's a processor problem, it probably means that the motherboard is old too, so upgrading will be difficult