monkeydud Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 (edited) Help with upgrading my system. Any tech heads out there? I would appreciate some thoughts on my planned upgrade. At the moment I have a Packard Bell Istart with an AMD Athlon 64x2 4000+ with 3 GB Ram and an Nvidia 8400 GS 256MB. I can just about get away with running the game in 800x600 on low. I want to upgrade my PC and got quite a bit of money for Xmas. I`m planning on getting an AMD Athlon II x4 645 Processor 3.1 GHZ (2MB Cahce) or an AMD Phenom x6 1055T 2.8 GHZ (6 GB cache) depending on which (if any) will fit on my motherboard. I`ve done a bit of research on Graphics Card and the Nvidia Geforce GT520 1GB scores quite well on reviews and there are 2 models one by PNY (which is the make of my current card) and one by EVGA with a £10 price difference. Including fitting at PC world this is just under my budget of £180. The main reason for upgrading is the somewhat limited graphics along with the lovely disclaimer on the back of the box that `you may have to upgrade your system/replace your system in due course.` Any thoughts would be appreciated as all these different clock speeds/bus widths/cachesizes gets a bit confusing at times. I mean i assume the phenom is faster than the athlon just because it has more cores even though the clock speed is a bit slower. cheers Edited December 28, 2011 by monkeydud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyretta Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 (edited) Honestly I would not spend the money on the Processor. You would be better off upgrading your ram to something like 8gb and get the 1gb video card. I am assuming your motherboard is set up for PCI Express? Edited December 28, 2011 by Pyretta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopernicous Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Honestly I would not spend the money on the Processor. You would be better off upgrading your ram to something like 8gb and get the 1gb video card. I am assuming your motherboard is set up for PCI Express? I agree if you can upgrade the video card to at least 1gb you should be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeydud Posted December 29, 2011 Author Share Posted December 29, 2011 As I understand it Vista wont recognise more than 4GB ram ? or am I misinformed on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyretta Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 It depends on if you are using the 32 bit OS or the 64 bit OS. The 64 bit will read more then 4 gb. Your best bet is to upgrade the OS to Windows 7 64 bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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