What does my PC need?

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Edit:Mention your motherboard mobel and a graphic card if you have other than the built in one.

Your RAM should be 512MB

Well, you could put 2GB RAM and a low-end GPU in there.

Though, as your mobo is most likely DDR and AGP, you won't get much for your money.


Is this a prebuilt? Do you know the model name/number of the system?

Post your motherboard model (if you don't know download and run this program which will tell you http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/pc-wizard.html)

Ram wise you can just throw in another gig of ddr2 ram for around $15 (probaly $10 if you shop ebay auctions) . Video card wise your motherboard is AGP which is going to give you very few options. Your best bet would to go to ebay and look for video cards in the search bar. Type agp first then type the following numbers to see if you can find any of them for cheap (2600pro, 2600xt, 7600gs, 6800GS, 6800gt)

you have an agpx8 slot and memory support for ddr 400, 333, and 266

your cpu support is limited to intel pentium 4's regretably..

ooh you apparently have an onboard gigabit ethernet jack. lucky dog you :P

gigabit its the eventual future of cabled internet with jacks and cabling allowing for 1gbps local connecitons..

its a darn shame this isnt the asus 775 board by the same name.. youd have pentium dual-core support :P

buy an additional 1 gb ram ddr2...nd i guess your motherboard will have an agp slot so buy nvidia 7*** gt graphic card as it is the last series for agp...and you'll be fine ;)

and will those video cards you mentioned be good enough to run Civ4? Thanks for your time and help.v8dtmpower

buy an additional 1 gb ram ddr2...nd i guess your motherboard will have an agp slot so buy nvidia 7*** gt graphic card as it is the last series for agp...and you'll be fine ;)

berabbit

untrue.. last agpx8 card was the hd 4650 by xfx... and if i recall sparkle had gt240's in agpx8 :P

you have an agpx8 slot and memory support for ddr 400, 333, and 266

your cpu support is limited to intel pentium 4's regretably..

ooh you apparently have an onboard gigabit ethernet jack. lucky dog you :P

gigabit its the eventual future of cabled internet with jacks and cabling allowing for 1gbps local connecitons..

its a darn shame this isnt the asus 775 board by the same name.. youd have pentium dual-core support :P

ionusX

you have an agpx8 slot and memory support for ddr 400, 333, and 266 ionusX

[QUOTE="berabbit"]

buy an additional 1 gb ram ddr2...nd i guess your motherboard will have an agp slot so buy nvidia 7*** gt graphic card as it is the last series for agp...and you'll be fine ;)

ionusX

untrue.. last agpx8 card was the hd 4650 by xfx... and if i recall sparkle had gt240's in agpx8 :P

you have an agpx8 slot and memory support for ddr 400, 333, and 266

your cpu support is limited to intel pentium 4's regretably..

ooh you apparently have an onboard gigabit ethernet jack. lucky dog you :P

gigabit its the eventual future of cabled internet with jacks and cabling allowing for 1gbps local connecitons..

its a darn shame this isnt the asus 775 board by the same name.. youd have pentium dual-core support :P

you have an agpx8 slot and memory support for ddr 400, 333, and 266

your cpu support is limited to intel pentium 4's regretably..

ooh you apparently have an onboard gigabit ethernet jack. lucky dog you :P

gigabit its the eventual future of cabled internet with jacks and cabling allowing for 1gbps local connecitons..

its a darn shame this isnt the asus 775 board by the same name.. youd have pentium dual-core support :P

you're all frazzling my brain with all this technical talk lolv8dtmpower

Basically the weakest part of your computer is the ram, get some more like the other guys said and you'll definitely notice it. A videocard would only make a difference to games, but since you're looking at old ones they wouldn't cost much anyway. Good luck, and don't worry, this might sound complicated but it isn't really. :)

[QUOTE="ionusX"]

[QUOTE="berabbit"]

buy an additional 1 gb ram ddr2...nd i guess your motherboard will have an agp slot so buy nvidia 7*** gt graphic card as it is the last series for agp...and you'll be fine ;)

berabbit

untrue.. last agpx8 card was the hd 4650 by xfx... and if i recall sparkle had gt240's in agpx8 :P

sparkle is an nvidia AiB other AiB's include evga, zotac, palit, pny, galaxy, gainward, etc..

sparkle used to be known as the worst of the worst but their pretty solid now offering alot of more competitive cards..

there also only one of 2-3 AiB's offering lifetime warranties (as evga no longer has them (on everything), bfg and xfx are gone, and the remaining one is zotac)

[QUOTE="berabbit"]

[QUOTE="ionusX"]

untrue.. last agpx8 card was the hd 4650 by xfx... and if i recall sparkle had gt240's in agpx8 :P

ionusX

sparkle is an nvidia AiB other AiB's include evga, zotac, palit, pny, galaxy, gainward, etc..

sparkle used to be known as the worst of the worst but their pretty solid now offering alot of more competitive cards..

there also only one of 2-3 AiB's offering lifetime warranties (as evga no longer has them (on everything), bfg and xfx are gone, and the remaining one is zotac)

[QUOTE="ionusX"]

[QUOTE="berabbit"] hahaha... yup that would be by ati.....nd what tf is sparkle?

kraken2109

sparkle is an nvidia AiB other AiB's include evga, zotac, palit, pny, galaxy, gainward, etc..

sparkle used to be known as the worst of the worst but their pretty solid now offering alot of more competitive cards..

there also only one of 2-3 AiB's offering lifetime warranties (as evga no longer has them (on everything), bfg and xfx are gone, and the remaining one is zotac)

burn itberabbit

According to your CPU-Z results you posted and your motherboard specs, yes thats what you want

Ram wise you can just throw in another gig of ddr2 ram for around $15 (probaly $10 if you shop ebay auctions) . Video card wise your motherboard is AGP which is going to give you very few options. Your best bet would to go to ebay and look for video cards in the search bar. Type agp first then type the following numbers to see if you can find any of them for cheap (2600pro, 2600xt, 7600gs, 6800GS, 6800gt)

mastershake575