I have this prehistoric computer, with a 1.9g CPU and 512RAM. About a year ago I put in a Nvidia 6800GS AGP 256mb video card, which seemed like a boost from my 64mb old one. With the new one I was able to jumpstart Oblivion (the old one couldn't support all the shading so it gave me dark screen during game play). If I was to give this old pc one more push, do you think that upgrading RAM would be beneficial, or should I just get a new motherboard, a new video card and start the saga all over again?
2007-01-06 10:03:53 · 4 answers · asked by s_alexander_s 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
It will help. 1gb will cut out a lot of the hard drive chattering that's Windows using virtual memory all the time. You need more ram with that class a video card. 2 to 1 ram/video ram ratio is gonna bog things down during the good games.
A Commodore 64 is prehistoric.
2007-01-06 13:22:53 · answer #1 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
find out as much as you can about your pc.motherboard,who made it etc.. then look up drivers for your motherboard and update them if there are any.then you could get a faster hardrive.more memory what ever it supports for your board.update your video card drivers.soundcard drivers. basically all the drivers for what you got.before you install anything. make a backup of your drive just incase.it all depends on if you want to spend money or have money for upgrades.
2007-01-06 10:25:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on exactly your processor's type and what kind of RAM it needs. PC3200 is still OK to upgrade and so is PC2700, so if you wanted to give it one more push, putting in 512MB more for a total of 1GB would definitely be able to let you play Oblivion, though at low resolutions.
2007-01-06 10:07:37 · answer #3 · answered by chris 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If u know how to tkae apart a computer and stuf take out ur good stuf and buy a new computer faster and beter and put all of the good dtuf from ur lod Pc in to it
2007-01-06 10:07:36 · answer #4 · answered by Q 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋