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Hello. I've grown sick of always being let down when purchasing new games. Therefore, I've decided to either upgrade it or purchase an entire new computer, as this one I'm currently on is approximately 3 years old.
I need help. I'm awful at these technical things, and I'm anxious whether this computer will still make the new computer games run fine when I upgrade it. I've heard other things play quite a large role. However, I'm sure this does not help you help me. You probably want to know what model, what graphics card i have at the moment, the capacity of the computer, etc.
Please, can someone tell me where i found out the capacity of my computer? I'm pretty anxious whether my PC will still play Battlefield 2 and Oblivion when I upgrade the graphics card, because isn't RAM and other things required for the games?
AH! Why do the computer games have to have such high requirements! I haven't played a decent computer game in over a year.
:crying:
I do know though that I need to upgrade my graphics card (i have an nvidia GForce 5500). However, I don't want to upgrade this computer. I want to buy a new computer, but what should that new computer have, to be able to have those sort of games installed?
What I'm really asking for in this thread is if someone could tell me what a computer needs to play oblivion, and battlefield, etc, I can start looking at computers for sale, seeing if they have what's required.
Thanks in advance!
Quarfly.
I need help. I'm awful at these technical things, and I'm anxious whether this computer will still make the new computer games run fine when I upgrade it. I've heard other things play quite a large role. However, I'm sure this does not help you help me. You probably want to know what model, what graphics card i have at the moment, the capacity of the computer, etc.
Please, can someone tell me where i found out the capacity of my computer? I'm pretty anxious whether my PC will still play Battlefield 2 and Oblivion when I upgrade the graphics card, because isn't RAM and other things required for the games?
AH! Why do the computer games have to have such high requirements! I haven't played a decent computer game in over a year.
:crying:I do know though that I need to upgrade my graphics card (i have an nvidia GForce 5500). However, I don't want to upgrade this computer. I want to buy a new computer, but what should that new computer have, to be able to have those sort of games installed?
What I'm really asking for in this thread is if someone could tell me what a computer needs to play oblivion, and battlefield, etc, I can start looking at computers for sale, seeing if they have what's required.
Thanks in advance!
Quarfly.
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any processor pretty much, they dont have to do that much work for their power these days (1800 and more will be fine).
512mb RAM for Oblivion and BF2 cos they are huge mofos.
Radeon 9800 gfx card
HDD space, as much as you need. 80gb HDD will do ya nicely (unless you're a d/load junkie and love music, seriously one of my friends filled up several hundreds gbs of music and porn :rolleyes:)
I would recommend you get a slightly better than average graphics card to last longer. I would also HIGHLY recommend extra memory, 2gb even if you can afford it. It's fairly cheap these days and you lose nothing by having more.
How much money do you have? What are your current system specs?
First, just like to say thanks for clarifying that.
Well, I'm willing to pay for an entire computer set for about £1200 at the maximum. If I would upgrade my current computer, I'd spend around 500 £ perhaps? I'd rather just buy a new one, because installing everything seems so damn tedious and everyone knows just how irascible I am (at least I do
But, for a new computer, 1200 £.
For that money in today's market you're looking at ultra high end stuff. (if you were building it yourself, anyway) It's not actually that much hassle doing it yourself, and it is pretty fun if you can get into it.
For £500 so long as your processer etc. is ok you could seriously buff up your system quite nicely. It's exciting having that big a budget actually. You could look at www.alienware.co.uk who are like the daddies of computerbuilders, or shop around a bit. It'll be more fun building it yourself though. For that budget, I wouldn't be surprised if you could get those games to run on max at high FPS (frames per second
With that kind of money what it may be worth doing is phoning up some computer geeks or going round and having a sit-down chat with them and what you need. Don't commit though because they'll probably tell you you NEED a terabyte of storage or something daft.
"Ultima SLi 7900 GT" AMD Athlon X2 3800 Dual Core DDR System (FS-005-OK)
from this page
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Full_Systems.html
Which would run pretty much anything out there right now. Of course you could get the Ultima" AMD Athlon 64 3700 Dual DDR System (FS-004-OC) which would still play the games you mentioned, as would the "Titan Vantage" AMD Athlon 64 3500+ System (FS-004-OK).
Thanks, and thanks Mist for the link.
Fortunately, my father's getting in touch with a "computer geek", who's hobby is to trim computers to their full potential. I'll see how that develops and ask him later on.
ETA: I found some pretty neat computers on alienware actually.
Well, I'm looking at one which is 1300 £ a.t.m. But I'm not going to purchase anything until i hear from a very geeky friend.