How to Upgrade PC for gaming?

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#1 SlaveOfTerror
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Hey guys. I wanna upgrade the things inside of my PC for gaming. Here's the specs. I want to be able to play more newer games, but I want to be able to play stuff like CS Source or TF2 with literally no lag. Please help? OS: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) System Manufacturer: HP Pavilion 061 BIOS: Pheonix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.4GHz RAM: 958 MB DirectX Version: 9.0c I should also add that my PC is running slow in general. I purchased this computer from some company called Cyberdyne Systems. Whoever they are. Anyway, please help me as soon as possible. Thanks in advance.
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#2 Zevante101
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What's your budget? You'd probably be better off just building a new PC.

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#3 Jetsfan122
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Lol Cyberdine Systems ? Are u for real ? Watch out for Skynet.

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#4 danygo1996
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Yeah, just get a new computer, from what i can tell, it looks pretty old

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#5 SlaveOfTerror
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I'd love to only buy parts individually and manually put them in myself without entirely building a pC. I don't really have a budget, unless it would be cheaper to buy a new PC. I spent $200 on this one anyway, so I might as well buy parts on another website that sells them.
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#6 SlaveOfTerror
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There's no other way? I mean, that being that you guys tell me the parts that would work best? Like a specific graphics card? I'm kinda broke and stuff so yeah..
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#7 Zevante101
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The problem is pretty much every component in your PC is outdated trash, and you'd need to upgrade one component in order to upgrade another. and you'd need to upgrade another to upgrade that one, and so on. No use upgrading the CPU on that motherboard, but then you'd need a GPU for gaming, and much more RAM, and for all this you'd need a new PSU to support it. THen you'd need a better case to cool it down and by the time it was over you would have a new build either way.

How much do you have to spend? It would be quite useful to know.

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#8 SlaveOfTerror
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I'd love to only buy parts individually and manually put them in myself without entirely building a PC. I don't really have a budget, unless it would be cheaper to buy a new PC. I spent $200 on this one anyway, so I might as well buy parts on another website that sells them. Oh and I forgot to mention that the RAM this HP Pavilion a1410n uses is DDR PC3200 with a maximum of 1 GB per slot. (4 Slots)
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#9 SlaveOfTerror
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So you're saying that I should sell this PC to the guy that I got it from and save up for another desktop? That's cool. Do you guys recommend a specific one for gaming that isn't too pricey?
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#10 Gammit10
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The problem is pretty much every component in your PC is outdated trash.

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#11 Zevante101
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Winning hearts and minds since 2009.Gammit10

Honesty is always the best policy. Not one thing could be upgraded without being bottlenecked. And (s)he deserves to know that not only are his components very old (in a market that changes and grows rapidly, I might add), but they aren't worthwhile for gaming.

If we had a number, any number of what you have to spend, it would be nice. Would you consider building or do you just want to buy a finished desktop?

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#12 danygo1996
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There's no other way? I mean, that being that you guys tell me the parts that would work best? Like a specific graphics card? I'm kinda broke and stuff so yeah..SlaveOfTerror

Can you show us what mother board do you have?

Not much stuff we can do, but; i rmemeber when i was playing with an old laptop, i couldnt get css pass 30 fps, and i used it for like 3 or 4 years!, i would lagg in almost every game, guess i had a bit of luck and alot of patience; and now im using a gaming pc.

Well if you can't afford a new pc, it's ok, there's better stuff to do

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#13 Zevante101
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Well if you can't afford a new pc, it's ok, there's better stuff to do

danygo1996

This. My gaming-quality PC just died and I've been playing my bass guitar 4 hours a day and helping people out on forums such as this one. I almost have a life now.

Honestly save up for a while. When you hit around $600-$700 drop it on a nice budget-midrange build.

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#14 ionusX
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im afraid even i an advocate of legacy parts for gaming cant do much with your computer your honestly better off saving for either a MAJOR system overhaul or a new computer. the money required to fix your computer up for gaming via upgrade is about $450-500 for 500 you can buy a decent new machine to build on or a decent OS free gaminbg mahcine (OS would make it come to 600)

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#15 Masenkoe
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>Cyberdyne Systems

>terminator?

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#16 MacBoomStick
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I purchased this computer from some company called Cyberdyne Systems.SlaveOfTerror

Troll thread.

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#17 Zevante101
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This is what I get for not watching Terminator. What a shame you have nothing better to do with your life than waste other's precious time.

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#18 SPYDER0416
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[QUOTE="SlaveOfTerror"] I purchased this computer from some company called Cyberdyne Systems.MacBoomStick

Troll thread.

Either its a troll thread, or TC is from an alternate dimension where the Terminator universe takes place.

Which actually doesn't make sense since its 2012 and the world is pretty much an apocalyptic hellhole now.

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#19 Elann2008
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[QUOTE="MacBoomStick"]

[QUOTE="SlaveOfTerror"] I purchased this computer from some company called Cyberdyne Systems.SPYDER0416

Troll thread.

Either its a troll thread, or TC is from an alternate dimension where the Terminator universe takes place.

Which actually doesn't make sense since its 2012 and the world is pretty much an apocalyptic hellhole now.

This. Zombie-Robot-Post-Nuclear-Apocalypse.
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#20 wis3boi
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:lol: epic thread. See, THIS is a real troll....not those crap wannabes in system wars

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#21 Elann2008
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:lol: epic thread. See, THIS is a real troll....not those crap wannabes in system wars

wis3boi

He deserves one of these.

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#22 undeadgoon
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I would look online for mother board bundles that include ram and processor.. and go from there

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#23 achilles614
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:lol: epic thread. See, THIS is a real troll....not those crap wannabes in system wars

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I like the trolls on anandtech better
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#24 mitu123
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-crap specs

-Cyberdyne Systems

Yep, this is a troll thread.

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#25 SlaveOfTerror
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No dude. Those crap specs are real. I just added Cyberdyne Systems to f**k with your heads. Anyway, I'll build it if I have to, but I'd you guys know of a already built desktop gaming computer that works just fine for what I need (and the future) that would be better.
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#26 jonleeprice
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Lol Cyberdine Systems ? Are u for real ? Watch out for Skynet.

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