gaming on a celeron d part 2?

Question

i don't know how to ammend my first question. the celeron d is a 335 model it runs at 2.8 ghz, my motherboard is upgradable to 2gigabytes, with 2 dimm slots at 1 gig per slot, my video card is a radeon ati 256 mb directx9 shader 3.0 x1300. the 1300 throwing me off its not in the charts as far as battlefield 2142 goes which is what i am playing. my concern is i have 512mb of memory, which i know can barely run windows xp, but my concern at a buck sixty a gig, i need ddr ram, should i buy an amd set, and ddr-2 memory, or spend the money on ddr and hope for the best. my goal is to play battlefield 2142 smoothly. i don't want to waste my money, i will spend 200 on memory if i am satsified with play on my processor, or i will spend 400 to build a new system for the same, but i don't want to just throw money away unecessarily.

Answer 1

well- right now I wouldnt recommend buying anything AMD - Im a big fan of them but intel has been kicking their butt since they released Conroe.

My recommendation is :
Depending on your budget - simply adding 1 gig of RAM isnt gonna help that wimpy computer - doesnt matter what the model number is a Celeron wasnt made for gaming...its slow and cheap

For a few hundred dollars you can get a Conroe 6400, a decent motherboard, and a decent video card and have 10 times the system. whereas spending $110 on a gig of RAM @ newegg.com doesnt solve anything because youre simply delaying the inevitable...which is you have to get a new system because yours sucks (to put it bluntly)

Goto Newegg.com and look at prices for a Core 2 Duo 6400 (conroe core also called)

Even get a quad-core @ $550 !!!

Remember the AMD, and intel chpis all now require DDR2

Answer 2

i would never use a celeron for gaming, the speed is there, but the cache is horrible, so they look good on paper, but aren't good for more than office type stuff.
Your board should support a Pentium processor, that might be a good route to go, but you'd be spending money on an old technology. Swap out the board for a new intel core 2 duo setup and some DDR2, but get 2 Gigs minimum for bf 2142.
you could get away a little cheaper with an X2 Socket M2 and some DDR2, but the intel core 2 duo's smoke the amds, and amd doesn't have a processor coming out any time soon that will give intel a run for its money, so i'd say in the interest of future proofing, go with an intel setup.

Answer 3

You are weak in all three areas. The Celeron is probably the least of your worries, but still not great and you would definately benefit from a better processor. You need at least 1GB of RAM to effectively run modern games like BF 2142, so you need an upgrade there. But your biggest problem is that video card. The X1300 is not a gaming card, it is a budget card intended for systems that do not have high graphics demands.