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FUBAR:
cool, what are you going to be using for?
Gaming? Video Editing? Web Browsing?
thegreatbuddha:
Gaming. I'd like Medieval 2 to run smoother, and I would love to play Oblivion at something more than 10FPS on minimum visual settings running OldOblivion. After that, everything is gravy.
Dimmukane:
2 gigs of RAM and a 7900 GS will do just fine.
ledhendrix:
I'm looking to get a good pc for gaming in the £300-£500 range. I just tried to play TF2 on my parents laptop ( 80gb hard drive, 1gb ram, 2x 1.6ghz processor and intel Graphics media accelerator 950 graphics card) but my graphics card doesn't work with TF2. I was gutted. Anyway anyone got any recommendations for a good pc?
FUBAR:
--- Quote from: Dimmukane on 04 Jan 2008, 07:51 ---2 gigs of RAM and a 7900 GS will do just fine.
--- End quote ---
He's right. Standard upgrade is what your looking for.
For the ram get something comparable to this:
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?sku=a0239821&cs=19&c=us&l=en&dgc=SS&cid=25682&lid=585550
In this bracket of memory all the features are pretty much the same across all manufacturers so whatever brand you choose should be OK as long as they are reputable. Once again I suggest Corsair but it would not hurt to read some reviews before you buy. Your MB doesn't take DDR2 unfortunately, but for what you want it will suffice.
Normally I would suggest ATI for playing Oblivion specifically because you can have the option to turn on all the lighting and shader effects but that's only if you purchase one of their high end cards. If you just need it on minimum an Nvidia 7900 GS will work plus, it will be cheaper.
There shouldn't be anything else you need to change. The processor meets recommended system requirements and I'm sure whatever power supply that is installed will be big enough to handle the new video card.
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