Zkuq said:
You don't want a graphics card that bad... The minimum you should be looking at is GeForce 8600 GT and even that rather low. GeForce 8800 or higher and GeForce 9600 or higher ought to be enough. Or you could go for ATI Radeon 4830 or something like that. Just... Forget the big numbers; it's usually the first two numbers that matter: the first one tells the series, the rest where it's located in the series. GeForce 8800 for example: GeForce 8, model 800 in the series. Thus, GeForce 8800. It's a bit simplified but you get the idea. Oh, and different series may not have that much of a difference (always). Less RAM will suffice and you might even get faster RAM then. Still, 4GB @ 667 MHz is definitely good so if you find anything like that, it'll do just fine. E7200 ought to be a good processor I think. The three I've mentioned so far are the most important components in a gaming PC. Well, naturally you should have a DVD drive :P And in case you were to update only, you should definitely get a new graphics card (AGP slot, not PCI or PCI-E). AFAIK GF5500 is pretty bad. A GeForce 6600 GT should be good. Overclocking the processor, which you already mentioned, might be a good idea as long as you have a rough idea of what you are doing. It's rather easy though: just put a bigger FSB in BIOS, watch the temperatures and make sure it's stable (ie. doesn't crash randomly, at least more than before). Your RAM will suffice, although more would surely be better. And now that I'm talking about RAM, I must say that it's very cheap these days. All in all, you can probably survive with your current PC if you make a couple of upgrades (should be pretty cheap, but you'll probably have to buy the parts used) but you'd still have best get a new PC. OnLive isn't a good suggestion at this point, for we don't know if it's actually going to work or not. Besides, I thought it's going to have a monthly fee? |
Do you think the GeForce 9600 is good enough? And what do you think about the 8800 GTX? And the Core 2 Quad processor?
I realized it's not a good idea at all to upgrade my pc by now
I have yet to take a good look at overclocking, but lowering the lifespam of my hardware is not sounding that good, but since my fellow VGCers recommend me this i need to try it
And i'm not betting my quarters on onlive. Also, the internet here in Brazil won't ever be on pair with the first world internet, so i doubt this will be of any advantage for us
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