Buiding a gaming Computer

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#1 lilomez238
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i have a sony Vaio which is a 3.0 GHz Pentium 4 Processor with 200gb HDDspace and 12 MB. what do i need to make my computer adecent(not great or unbelieable) a decent running gaming computer....do i need more RAM? Graphics Card? Vista?will this cost me alot of $$$..btw buying a new CPU is not a option

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#2 mrhankeydinks
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i hope 12mb isn't your ram.....
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#3 lilomez238
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my bad 512mb of ram
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I would start out with a ram upgrade.
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mk.. Cool dude for sdtarters i dn't klnow much about laptops but i figure much the same as comps as gaming goes. So firstly i would upgrade to 2Gb Ram , Second depending on what sort of games you are wanting to play if its new realeses then i would recomend an Nvidia 8 series card that;s either an 8000 GTS - GTS - an 8800 GTS GTX. And lastly be your processor right now im looking into getting a core 2 duo processor the one i want is the E660 but this is for pc so yah hope iv'e helped a little and . P.S mabye vaio is also PC and thats what you have i dnt know lol i just thought that vaio's are laptops. cya P.M me if you need more help its np.
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i hope 12mb isn't your ram.....mrhankeydinks


lol imagin 12mb of ram...how bad
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mk.. Cool dude for sdtarters i dn't klnow much about laptops but i figure much the same as comps as gaming goes. So firstly i would upgrade to 2Gb Ram , Second depending on what sort of games you are wanting to play if its new realeses then i would recomend an Nvidia 8 series card that;s either an 8000 GTS - GTS - an 8800 GTS GTX. And lastly be your processor right now im looking into getting a core 2 duo processor the one i want is the E660 but this is for pc so yah hope iv'e helped a little and . P.S mabye vaio is also PC and thats what you have i dnt know lol i just thought that vaio's are laptops. cya P.M me if you need more help its np.jjc273

vaio's make both comps and laptops