What do I need to upgrade?

This is what I have right now

Dell Dimension E520

Windows Vista Home Premium

Intel G965 Express chipset

Intel Core2DuoE4400@2.0Ghz

Ati Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB

2GB 667 Mhz ram

Seagate 250GB barracuda 7.10 HD

Blu-ray R/W drive

305 watt 44amps psu

22" Dell Ultrasharp LCD display

I want to play Crysis on high at 1680x1050. What do I need to upgrade?

your going towant your dual core speed to be about 2.5 to run crysis 2.0 is a big bottleneck. playing on vista to be safe id have 3 gigs of ram.

now, graphics card, i run 1680 x 1050 at very high .. bout 35 fps with two 980gtx's in sli, i dont know if you could get off playably on high with a single 9800 but you prob will with some things like textures on medium and most on high, if you want you could blow for a gtx 280, or you can get SLI 9800's

your PSU is going ot need an upgrade if you want a new GPU.. 305 watts wont cut it, for the gpu's i mentioned above, especially 280 or sli 9800's ur gonna want 650 watts + reccomended 700.

your going towant your dual core speed to be about 2.5 to run crysis 2.0 is a big bottleneck. playing on vista to be safe id have 3 gigs of ram.

now, graphics card, i run 1680 x 1050 at very high .. bout 35 fps with two 980gtx's in sli, i dont know if you could get off playably on high with a single 9800 but you prob will with some things like textures on medium and most on high, if you want you could blow for a gtx 280, or you can get SLI 9800's

your PSU is going ot need an upgrade if you want a new GPU.. 305 watts wont cut it, for the gpu's i mentioned above, especially 280 or sli 9800's ur gonna want 650 watts + reccomended 700.

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