Want your opinion

[Abhi]

Hi. I have a custom build PC. I want your opinion on my PC so that I can able to play most recent games and also the high requirement games (In short each and every game). My configuration is:


Main Circuit Board : Board: Intel Corporation D101GGC AAD35788-305
Serial Number: BTGC55335534
Bus Clock: 133 megahertz
BIOS: Award BIOS for Intel GC11010N.86A.0303.2005.1108.2057 11/08/2005

Processor : 2.80 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4 (64 bit)
16 kilobyte primary memory cache
1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache

GRAPHICS CARD : ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 Series [Display adapter] (Onboard Max cap. 256 Mb) (256 Mb Shared)

HARD DISK DRIVE : 1)SAMSUNG HD080HJ [Hard drive] (80.02 GB) -- drive 0
2)SAMSUNG SV4012H [Hard drive] (40.06 GB) -- drive 1

MEMORY : Slot 'A0' is Empty
Slot 'A1' has 1024 Mb

MONITOR : Samsung SyncMaster [Monitor] (15.2"vis, s/n HHAA103595, January 2006)

Communications (LAN) : Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC

Multimedia : Realtek High Definition Audio

If you think that some upgradation is necessary please feel free to suggest it.
Any comment on my PC is welcommed.

Upgrade budget : Rs. 5000-7000

[Lord_Behemoth]

you won't be able to play the latest games very well. get a vidcard.

tell us your budget and we'll advice

[Cow]

Unfortunately I doubt that's capable of running BF2 on all LOW (BF2 is not a recent game, it came out last summer =/)

[Gazz]

Well, your videocard as mentioned before is a huge bottleneck. Try to get a midrange card and you should be able to atleast run most games at medium settings or even higher.

Try trading in your 1024 mb memory for two 512 so you can get dualchannel advantage.

Furthermore get an seperate soundcard, onboard soundcards simply take away too much system resources killing your framerates. A basic card should do the trick.

[KamisoriX]

should have save on the CPU that is not all that anyway and invest more into Graphics...express...i thought those were Mobile graphics

[mamsa]

That CPU is getting old too. I dont know about the motherboard but I have a feeling intel-based mobos are limited in features etc. Also, that GFX card is worthless. You wanna work faster in a game called Microsoft Office(Word)? Go for it. You want games? Get a better one.

Too small budget and your comp is already old when you buy it. Too old.

If it's built-in, it's crap.

http://3dgpu.com/archives/2004/11/08/ati-r...-200g-review/4/

[KamisoriX]

well, I always used Intel boards back then, not because they are uber fast or anything, they are far from it, but they were the most stable ones. I'm not into benchmarks and such but stability. lately i saw that Intel boards didn't make the cut anymore so I guess my next will be a ASUS or if I go for AMD then LanParty.

Most people seems to have a limit when it comes to PC and that's the budget. I never spare any cost when it came to it...only lately it seems that there are hardly any games worth building a top end machin.

[BLACK KNIGHT]

Christmas gifts i say.

This is my new computer:
Asus AN8, w/ onboard lan/audio
AMD athlon 64 3500+ (havnt got around to OCing)
1.5gb of fairly cheap ram
Sapphire X800gto2 unlocked to x850xt (need better cooler before OC)
60gb HD, 140gb HD no not raid, im sill running IDE.
umm misc dvd burner, and cd burner.

Im able to run fear on mostly high settings, prey demo on high, HL2 maxed out. Most of the stuff I got for christmas/graduation/birthday gifts. Thats the way for poor college student to afford a decent computer. I think I only bought the ram in 2 stages (first 2x256, then added 2x512), OH and the 140gb HD on sale for $40 on black friday.

Overall probably costs $650 area. Then theres my special extras like my logitech mx500 i couldnt live without and my logitech z-5500 that makes my neighborhood shake. Add $300 for both, then $200-$300 for a monitor. Total $1200.

Not the best system in the world but it works for me.