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06-03-2008, 10:52 PM
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| Newb Techie Join Date: Jun 2008
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|  Help please. Ok, here we go. This is what I'm working with: System Model: VIA Technologies, Inc. KT600-8237 Processor: 2.15 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP HardDrive: 80.02 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity RAM: 1.5g DDR2. 1gb stick and one 512 stick. One slot is still open. Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6200 A-LE Sound: VIA AC'97 Enhanced Audio Controller (WDM) And I want to run Age of Conan without lag. I don't so much want it high settings with perfection or anything. I just want the game to run decently. 15fps average works for me. My mother board only supports AGP's..and I know there isn't too much out there nowadays for them. So, I came to you guys  .Help me decide what I'm going to do..buy a new AGP card (the GeForce 7600 512DDR2 AGP has caught my eye, but your suggestions will help), get more RAM, and or w/e other upgrades I can get, or save up and buy a new computer (take much longer, and wont know what to do with my current one unless I sell it) |
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06-05-2008, 11:14 PM
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| Monster Techie Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: United States, Arkansas
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| Re: Help please. Quote:
 Anyways.. the best AGP card is the Radeon HD3850 for about $150. 1.5gb is plenty for modern games. If you have enough money I would recommend buying a new mobo/cpu/gpu.. pretty much a whole new computer. But idk what else to say without a price limit Just by buying that graphics card you will notice a huge increase.. What you have is integrated and is not designed to play games. Once you buy a graphics card you will notice a HUGE increase in performance and for once you should be able to actually play games.
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06-05-2008, 11:35 PM
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| Kudos/Post Count Padder  Join Date: Dec 2006
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| Re: Help please. Well if you get the HD 3850 AGP, he'd have to worry about having his PSU being enough to run it...
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06-06-2008, 12:11 AM
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| Super Techie  Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Loveland, Colorado
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| Re: Help please. Quote:
__________________ "How May I Misdirect Your Posts Today" My Rig: A.K.A. My Little China Girl Intel quad core q6600 2.4 Ghz 4GB G.Skill PC26400 DDR2 800Mhz EVGA 8800GT 512 Raidmax Smilodon case Thermaltake 700Watt Power Gigabyte 965P-DS3 S-Series Western Digital 500GB SATA Audiology 2 ZS Creative sound card ViewSonic 22" Widescreen display Windows XP 32 ********************** "I believe in OEM products" | |
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06-06-2008, 12:13 AM
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| Re: Help please. I think he'd be better off starting again with a clean build
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