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so i wanna play games like Far Cry and Half Life 2, but my system is a bit old and slow [like its owner]. I'm still playing MOHAA Spearhead. What sort of upgrades do I need to play these, with all the settings at top whack, and what kind of cash are we talking? cheers

p4 2.4 ghz
786 ddr ram
geforce 4 ti4600 128meg
audigy nx sound card

My specs are pretty low for now days i have had the computer for 2 years now. I play halflife 2 with everything on max just turned off AA and set filtering to biliner. Got well over 40fps the whole game, same with Doom 3 and Farcry just don't use AA if you have a low spec computer you wont notice much till you stop moving and by then your either being gay and camping or dead. :D

You need at least 1Gb of RAM, if you don't have that Doom 3, Half Life 2 and Far Cry will all need to access the hard drive, and this will lower performance, badly.

I have an Athlon 64 3000+
Abit KV8 Pro Motherboard
1Gb DDR400 PC3200
80Gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.7
Sapphire Radeon 9800 256Mb.

This lets me play Half Life 2 on Medium to good settings, and Doom 3 on High ( the best setting says something about needing a 500Mb graphics card ) and Far Cry plays on Very High settings.

I know you need 1Gb of memory, becasue I only had 512Mb until yesterday, the extra 512Mb solved all of the disk caching problems in Doom 3 and Half Life 2.

You should be able to build something decent for £600+
The more you spend, the more you get, really.

Well, not exactly, but as a general principle it's usually true.

Thanx for the replies. I'm totally lost now! The more I learn the less I know. I'm just gonna get a whole new machine built I think. What would we be talking cash-wise, for a pukka machine with good FPS, from scratch?

Aye, they are a steal second hand.

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> Wait till i get my vapochill/prommy.

I'm at 2.6 on air... maybe I should get one.

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gayby.
Just checking.

CS continues to be a gayby on my computer, despite HL2 running flawlessly.
I even tried dropping to stock speed on my CPU and I still get frequent crashes :' {

1.65V, DFI lanparty NF2 ultra B, no.

Though my computer has been restarting randomly, but there is a bios to fix it, i just havent bothered flashing it yet.

Cal, what voltage do you have your CPU set to?
+ are you using an abit NF-7?

+ does counter strike: source ever crash for you for no apparent reason?