Upgrading my system: Guidance Required

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Hi
I'm looking to upgrade my MESH system in time for some new FPS such as FarCry 2 and Call of Duty coming out. I know how to do all the actual upgrades but have been out of the game for some time so don't know what's hot and what's not. I'm willing to spend a few quid but need to know how archaic my system is and what i should be targeting for upgrade, can anyone help (all details from SiSoft)?

MotherBoard: ASUSTek M2N - SLI Deluxe v1.4
Processor: AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual Core 4200+
Memory: Micron 1GB DIMM DDR 2 (x2 - 2GB Total)
Video Card: NVidia GeForce 7600GT
SoundCard: Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio
HDD: Barracuda 7200.10 SATA 3.0Gb/s 320-GB Hard Drive
OS: Windows XP Service Pack 2

Thanks for anybody's help
Rod

 

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You may be better off posting on a gaming forum. This one is for IT people taking exams

 

Ok thanks Darkstar, any suggestions?

 

My PC doesn't have the specs of yours but it runs COD4 perfectly well so unless your some sort of hardcore gamer then your system seems perfectly fine to me.

 

You could always try here http://www.overclock.net/

 

FarCry 2 provisional requirements.

I would take your memory up to 2GB and upgrade your graphics card to at least a 7800.

 

Thanks for that I was wondering what the specs would be.

 

No problem. I just waved my Google magic wand!

 

I tried a couple of weeks a go but couldn't find anything, apart from the trailer. Far Cry is being bought

 

I hope they put it through a better QA cycle this time, as I couldn't complete the first one because of bugs.

 

As you already have 2GB ram, see if you can upgrade that to 3GB. It wont be expensive.
Get a Geforce 8800GT (you can get them cheap now, around £100 - or factory overclocked for only a little more).

And you should be set!

 

I'd agree with Jimbooo. upgrade your Graphics card to a 8800GT or higher. You can get 8800gt's for around 100 and better ones for £150 thats should cope with most of todays games and the next few new ones out until xmas. Thats assuming your not running at stupid resolutions. I play most of my games at 1024*768 on 19" monitor and find thats ok for me.

The CPU migh need an upgrade, but if you change to Intel then you'd need a newer Motherboard as well so costs soon start to rise.

 

I got started in IT due to my love of computers and hardware and upgrading. In my opinion, stuff like this is *highly* relevant... no less so than any other discussions we have about software, hardware, or general technology.

 

I got a Radeon HD 4870 for around £170. It'll play Crysis on High (with Very High for textures because it's a GDDR5 card) and any other game before it. For an extra £20 than the £150 you can get a card that'll last you years!