Re: New & A Few Questions

That 480MB ram doesn't take into account the 32MB shared for the onboard
graphics. Add 'em up and you've got 512.
The 9700 vid card will be a bit outdated for new games like Fear,Quake4 and
Oblivion.
It should be fine for plenty of other games.

"Darunia" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Greetings,
>
> I just had a few questions about how my current PC is, how it will run
> certain things (especially games) ^_^ I bought it for around $600
> dollars through some sale from Aldi's foodstore, I went to start, run
> and ran DXDIAG (there any better programs to see more details?).
> This is what it came up with:
>
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>
> Manufactu Medion
>
> Model: MS-7060
>
> OS: XP Home (I've heard it's bad, XP Pro that much better?)
>
> Processor: Pentium 4, 3.00GHz (2 CPUs)
>
> Memory: 480MB Ram (Dad says they lie, and it's actually 512) ??
>
> Bios: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v.6.00PG
>
> HD: 160gig
>
> Video Card: SiS 661FX Rev 01 (...32mb? sucks. hopefully getting a 9700
> Pro or 9600 XT in the next day or so, as far as my research tells,
> these are best for under $100 dollars if I snag a good deal.)
>
> DirectX Version: 9.0c
>
> Sound: Realtek AC97 Audio
>
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>
> That's it. I think it was a very good deal for the price, as we are po'
> folk =P However, I would like some hardcore imput on what I should do /
> replace / mod / purchase to make this a uber gaming machine. I
> currently play World of Warcraft, which runs real choppy & laggy (due
> to video card most likely?) I had to switch the target path to -opengl
> to stop it from crashing my computer. I'm trying to run games such as
> HL2 and CS:source, with no luck. Anyways, hope you can decipher this a
> bit and help me out! Thanks for all the imput beforehand, it's much
> appreciated!
>
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> Darunia