Originally Posted by
CrazyTaco
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional 5.1
Processor: Intel Core2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 3582MB RAM
Hard drive: 141 GB
GFX Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
what do you think of it?
good or bad?
Originally Posted by
Lume
Pretty bad, the processor if anything bottlenecks the graphics card but the graphics card isn't even that good to begin with.
Actually this is not that bad for most games, anyone who said it was bad can go away
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Also if you like Lume stated the processor would bottle neck the GPU your only
JUST correct, however the amount of bottle-necking wont be that large, most games barely use 2 cores, however that CPU has a rather small cache and low clock speed, other than that it's fine. Conversely if you use this computer for video editing your fucked, I do believe it was never stated that this was a gaming computer.
The RAM confused me a bit, how do you get 3.5GB's of RAM? That must be some really odd combinations, 3x1GB + 1x500MB?
The GPU wont run every game, but I'd have still recommended that graphics card about a couple of months ago (and I in-fact did someone around here) as it's cheep and powerful.
Lastly I'm surprised no one mentioned explicitly windows XP, this I would change. Upgrading to windows 7 would give that computer a new lease of life.
Recommended upgrades without replacing computer: (Almost in order of importance)
OS: Windows 7.
RAM: switch all that for 4GB of branded RAM, RAM is cheap nowadays and this would improve stability and performance.
CPU: Core 2 Duo at around 2.6 to 3.2GHz.
GPU: Unless you need more games performance your fine.
Last edited by Vox; May 31, 2011 at 09:05 AM.