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[ThePlague]

E:
Specs:
ATI Rage 128 Gfx card
Intel Pentium 4 CPU 1.80 GHZ
512 mb of 32x64m pc133-333-520 RAM (two 256 mb sticks)
Ubuntu 8.10 Operating System
100 gb of HD space (one 20 gig HD and another 80 gig)

And that's all I could get :/

[343guiltymc]

E:
Specs:
ATI Rage 128 Gfx card
Intel Pentium 4 CPU 1.80 GHZ
512 mb of 32x64m pc133-333-520 RAM (two 256 mb sticks)
Ubuntu 8.10 Operating System
100 gb of HD space (one 20 gig HD and another 80 gig)

And that's all I could get :/

Urh, get a new PC altogether. That's barely adequate for simple tasks, let alone playing games.

[ThePlague]

Yeah, because I totally didn't think of that at all.

If I had the money for a new PC, I would've already had one.

[Warsaw]

Your system is so bottlenecked that even a graphics upgrade will only afford you a limited amount of manoeuvring room with regard to what games you can run at decent settings. PC133 RAM? Pentium 4 1.8GHz? Damn boi, that junk is old. I was going to suggest an HD3850, but that would be too much wasted power, so I'm gonna agree with Xet's suggestion.

[ThePlague]

It's an old like 04 Dell Optiplex GX240 so...yeah. I just wanted to know what I could get out of it. Right now I use my laptop for gaming, and it's a Dell Latutide D600 which is also from 04. I wanted to see if I could make a gaming desktop, but from what you guys have said, I guess it's not worth it.

[Warsaw]

Two years ago you could've gotten away with it. Today, it's just not going to cut it. My own system is on the edge of the minimum system requirements for games of today.

[ThePlague]

Two years ago you could've gotten away with it. Today, it's just not going to cut it. My own system is on the edge of the minimum system requirements for games of today.

Atleast I can play HL2 games on my laptop, and that's about the best I can do.

I'll try to get money to build a decent PC.

[Kalub]

Hey what do you think of these two builds, the first is a small budget, and the second is a slightly better for a bigger budget. Thanks

https://secure.newegg.com/WishList/M...spx?ID=6262249
https://secure.newegg.com/WishList/M...spx?ID=6265889

[Xetsuei]

Hint: Don't use any kind of Pentium CPU.

[Kalub]

Hint: Its for a low budgeted person, where as I don't want to use a Dual Core. Just work with me here :P