i want help on one thing. what part of my computer do i need to upgrade so that i could play my PC games faster, on and offline?
dsgtrain is right but just to add the order of importance for computer parts to play games. Order of Importance 1st: Graphic/Video Card 2nd: RAM 3rd: CPU P.S. A cheap gaming rig would consist of the following parts (or so) (oooooo...big words!): -2.0 Ghz CPU -512 MB RAM -128 MB Graphics Card (make sure it is PCI Express because they are better and cheaper! (I am saying this in case you haven't bought the mo-bo yet)) -40 GB PATA HDD If you want to enjoy gaming as inexpensively as possible this will/should be your minimum specs.
Do you mind sharing your specs with us? We can advise you what to buy to get the best performance for your money, but we need to know what you have first.
sammorris can I ask? ^^ CPU 3700+ MOBO:nf3 ultra ramm hynudai 512 400PC I know ti suxs VId:BFG OC 6800 256MB AGP HD XP 40GB maxtor 100ATA HD-2- 120GB samsng 133ATA Sound:Audgiy SE I know it suxs >< I have a nice lite on 16X DVD drive write speed is 4 or 8X I have come down to either ramm 2GB (3-2-4-8 or soem tieming like it) or raid sata HDs 100-160GB.
Hey I use an Audigy SE, don't knock it. The drivers aren't wonderful, but they have lots of features. What do you want to ask?
sammorris hehehe it gave me no end of reboots and crashing when I got it..i tired stiking in yestreday and now it wants to work 0-o I gess mabye double booting to make sure the chipset audio was disabled helped? Anyway I know I aint in a good postion for PC gameing being AGP and all but witch should I worry over a 90$ adugy 2 or 4 or zs for better frame rate,or go with new ramm I am thinking this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820227224 one this month one next month *L* sata can come next. Mmm I guess my sound is good enough to put off for a year or 2 *L*
Sound cards all affect frame rate similarly really, bar the X-Fis, but they have even more of the problems that Audigy 4s exhibit, for a start they're not 100% compatible with nForce 4 chipsets (that's actually nVidia's fault not Creative, but interesting nonetheless). RAM looks good.
sammorris ya its not bad. Ah I thought the Adugy 2 ZS or soemthign of the like would be the best for gameing least best for under 80,I am not paying 100+ for a fing sound card >> next month Ramm Septmber ram again december or jan sata HDs or Directway *L* I cant take dailup much longer its fing messing with my and nothing I do seeems to fix that timeout issue with firefox ><
I can't say I've used FF with dialup, but when my connection slows down, big download, or p2p app or whatever, firefox finds it difficult to get sites, whereas ie isn't bothered. For someone on dial-up I can only imagine what firefox must be like trying to use. Really there's little difference in the Sound Blasters for gaming performance unless you have an X-FI with the high cost and compatibility issues mentioned before. In all honesty, when the driver is installed right, the sound quality from an Audigy 4 SE (I got mine for £17) is excellent, and assuming you don't have 7.1 speakers, you can still use 5.1 mode and have a microphone plugged in at the same time. As for the question about DVD players in your sig, there is software available for PCs I think that does that, but it's not easy to get hold of because it's not legal!
sammorris Firefox cant be a bitch on dailup....sometiems a page acts liek tis not there and you have to hit relaod a few times to get it to come up,its dailup thing I know I used firefox for 2 years on boardband with no problems. I hate IE buggy pice of crap >< I have a NForce 3 mobo *L* and becuse tis ilegal to have a DVD palyer that will just paly a goddamn moive little old ladies across the world cant watch moives but cuase the menu system is confuseing and to hard to use 0_o pm me soem nfo if yu dont mind or are you only teaseing me with our knowlage
I can't say I've used such software so I wouldn't know where to look, but I did find this: http://www.techdigest.tv/2005/07/advert_free_dvd.html
sammorris meh I can look up reviews and see if I can find soemthign I mena its rather simple Menu is click fora set amount of tiem you can change then play is clicked on for a set amount of time all of this is done when a DVD loads up no fuss no muss no "hard" skipping thats illeagle *L* oh well I have could have sworen 5 or 7 years ago soemone would make a Satlite TV to cable TV BOx the design is simple it uses the card and soem clone hardwared of the sat TV you stick the card in and it will use soemthing like the sat box program to setup the box the serive and then put all the channles up to 200 or so into a signal that can be read on any Cable ready TV so you dont have to have a extra box for each fing TV...did anyone ever make one...no...>>
sammorris http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820231021R what do you think? its cheap gets me to 2GB the down side newegg wont be a exstend warrenty on it and they give it a 15day warrenty,but its 70$ cheaper than the non open box....mmmmmm
Or for pretty much the same price, you could get this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820220084
sammorris DOH ! I ment its 70$ more than the open box,makeing it 230 or so and even at 200 its 40 more than what I want to spend in one shot
Well, I personally would never rely on open box stuff, it's a breeding ground for issues, RAM is especially important to get right. After the rebate it's only THREE dollars more than the Open box stuff, surely you can manage that?
sammorris didnt see the rebate...0000oooooo...mmm wonder if it will be good fr acouple weeks have no money till the 3rd or so ><
