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im thinking about maybe getting a new computer sometime in the next week,, my computer atm is intel celeron processor 2.00ghz, 1.25gb ram,, 40gb Hdd,
and i saw a comp on ebay which was Pentium 4 3.0Ghz, 1gb ram (but can put my ram now into the new one so 2.gb) and 40gb hdd,, now my quesiton is will i see an improvement in speed compared to the comp i get now and was wondering if it was worth the money?? £65 alltogether inc. shipping??
thanks
It'd be better, yes, but if you want to play most modern PC games it won't be anywhere near powerful enough.
Your RAM may not be compatible with the newer hardware either.
I don't think 92 bucks justifies upgrading to that computer. Really, it'd be like going to obsolete technology to less obsolete technology. Save your money and build your own. Assuming computer parts cost the same over there as it does here in the states, you can build an excellent modern computer for £200 and have it be modern for at least another 3 years or so.
If not too much try to get the INTEL Core2Quad Q6600 CPU & at least 2GB of RAM. Technology unfortunately costs big.
Meh for 92 bucks it ain't that bad. I mean a 3.0GHZ P4 is going to mop the floor with a 2.0GHZ Celeron and the extra RAM is going to help (assuming they are both the same type)
Yeah its nice to have a new Core2 or i7 rig... but you would need a new motherboard, new motherboards are PCI-E (not AGP) and DDR2, DDR3 (not DDR, PC133 or RD) so you might need a new video card, you would need new RAM, you may want a new Power supply to go with all that depending on what you have now. New boards only have one IDE channel, you may have several IDE Hard Drives and an IDE Burner, you may need to buy a new SATA drive... point is it adds up. Its nice that everything is cheap now and you can build an awesome overall PC tower for like $800-1000 so keep that in mind.
But if you don't want to spend over $100 on a PC then yeah this upgrade may be worth 92 bucks for you.
Actually, the important question is... what exactly do you want to do with your computer? If it's just to watch Youtube videos and play solitaire or something, you're good.
Not true you need Hyperthreading to play Solitaire AND watch Youtube videos at the same time.... lol sorry. I kid.
but i am looking to get a graphics card that is recommended for call of duty 4 on pc,, once i get this do you think that COD 4 will run good on the computer that i might be getting?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sudo
thanks..
Call of Duty 4 specs:
“Recommended Specs”
# CPU: 2.4 GHz dual core or better is recommended
# RAM: 1GB for XP; 2GB for Vista is recommended
# Harddrive: 8GB of free hard drive space
# Video card: 3.0 Shader Support recommended. Nvidia Geforce 7800 or better or ATI Radeon X1800 or better
“Required (min) Specs”
# CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 2.4 GHz or AMD(R) Athlon(TM)
# 64 2800+ processor or any 1.8Ghz Dual Core Processor or better supported
# RAM: 512MB RAM (768MB for Windows Vista)
# Harddrive: 8GB of free hard drive space
# Video card (generic): NVIDIA(R) Geforce(TM) 6600 or better or ATI(R) Radeon(R) 9800Pro or better
It's a Dell computer and dirt cheap. I'm guessing it doesn't even have an AGP slot and you'll have to use a PCI card, that'll work better than the onboard video accelorator, but it'll still be hampered by the PCI interface.Quote:
Originally Posted by Parker619
You plan to play CoD4 on that? It won't do more than simply run imo. You'd have to turn all the details down, and you would have to shoot at brown objects with legs instead of soldiers. You wouldn't even be able to play it on the onboard video because it needs a card capable of DX9.
Save your money man, you'll be happier.
Yes small DELLS and other lower model OEM machines often came with motherboards/chipsets with a AGP bus BUT the AGP slot is missing on the motherboard. This means you are stuck with PCI witch you will never find a card capable of running COD4 on a PCI card. Forget about it.
If you want a machine to run modern games you want a machine with a full sized (ie not low profile) PCI-E x16 slot.
Keep in mind they don't even make AGP cards anymore (okay a few companies still make a few) and they are really hard to come by. NVidia stopped making AGP cards with the Geforce 7K series. So no current gen Geforce DX10 cards (8800, 9600, 9800, GTX200) etc etc on AGP. The last NVidia cards made on AGP for gaming, the high end 7K series like the 7800, 7950 etc are so scarce right now if you did manage to fine one you would be paying 3 times its actual value!
PCI-E is a MUST if you plan on buying a modern video card good enough to play COD4 at decent levels.
For reference my last system was really basic. It cost me $800 a few years ago. It was an AMD 5000, 2GB DDR2 800 (PC2-6400), and a 256MB DDR3 Geforce 8600GTS on an M2N-E (NF 570) motherboard and a 320GB HD, Pioneer DVDRW all in an Antec case with a decent Antec PSU. This system for 2 years ago was really quite cheap to build and yet could play COD4 with all settings on Very High (no AA) at 1280x1024 (native res for my 19" LCD)
Now you can get an 8600GTS (or the 9500GT basically the replacement) for under $100 new. But you have to have PCI-E!
ATi did continue to make AGP cards longer than NVidia did. Example you could get a 3850 on AGP last year but even then you paid much more for it than the faster PCI-E version. Now that no one really makes them anymore you pay "AGP tax" as I like to call it on older cards and its not near worth it at all.