| ils411 said: Thanks for the advice. I'll keep them in mind while i try and put together my first ever build. though this may be the first time i try to build a pc from the ground up, i have been keeping my current desktop for the past so many years :P i haven't gamed on this pice of trash for years!i dont realy know what board this shit has as i just got this from my brother and never bothered upgrading. though i have replaced the video card when the really old 32mb gforce crap gave, also replaced the psu when it exploded (funny, everything still works even after it literaly went up in smokes), replaced the optical drive, hdd and added some ram. Haven't found much of a reason to upgrade. But with Starcraft2 and Diablo3 in the works i think its about time that i build myself a nice new rig or at the least something that can run those two games at settings between low and midium settings on a side note, anybody knows if they've released the system requirements for starcraft2 and diablo3? edit: nevermind i looked it up StarCraftWire.net Minimum Specifications:
StarCraftWire.net Alternative Minimum Specifications:
http://starcraft.incgamers.com/articles/comments/starcraft-2-system-requirements damn, if that's the minimum specs then i'll just upgrade my freakin video card in my crapy p4 2.6Ghz PC and BAM! LOL
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i'm not too particular with graphic details. I look more into gameplay though having nice graphics give some insentives.You really should consider upgrading your entire PC if you can spare the cash. Even the "hobo box" in the OP will blow a P4 2.6 GHz box out of the water. For reference, you're probably sporting an old "Northwood" P4 with only 512 KB L2 cache, an ancient Socket 478 mobo with no PCI-E slots (so you'll have to upgrade into an equally outdated and overpriced AGP card, probably from the secondary market) and MAYBE a max of 4 GB slow DDR2 667 RAM if you're lucky and got a high-end-for-the-time mobo. Also, with that setup you're probably still running Win XP, which you shouldn't be if you're at all serious about PC gaming.
You'll have trouble running on minimum settings even if you upgrade to the best AGP card, Socket 478 CPU, and RAM that you can find.
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