On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 08:41:05 +0000, Darunia
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>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:
>
>---------------
>
>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
>
>-----------
>
>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!

P4 3.0, 512MB RAM (shared!!!), integrated everything, for $600? Either
you've got a really nice monitor with it, or it's a blatant ripoff.
Even Dell (not the best value for the money) runs better promos.

NNN

Do you have an AGP or PCI-E slot on the motherboard? If not,forget Uber.
You'll nee a new video card and more ram to start. A Nvidia 6800 or 7800
with 256M ram and 512MB more DDR ram. Migfht want to check the speed and
cache of your Hard drive too.Should have at least 7200 rpm and 8MB cache.

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> On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 08:41:05 +0000, Darunia
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >
> >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:
> >
> >---------------
> >
> >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
> >
> >-----------
> >
> >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!
>
> P4 3.0, 512MB RAM (shared!!!), integrated everything, for $600? Either
> you've got a really nice monitor with it, or it's a blatant ripoff.
> Even Dell (not the best value for the money) runs better promos.
>
> NNN
>