I have a choise between a copy of Windows Vista Home Premium or a Creative labs Xtreme gamer sound card.
My PC's Spec are
AMD AThlon x2 3800+
DDR2 1GB. OF RAM
Nforce 2 Motherboard
250gb. IDE Hard Drive
CD RW/DVD RW Drive
Intergrated 7.1 sound
Nvidia Geforce 7300gt W/ 256mb. Of Onboard RAM (PNY)
Thanks
PS - I know it is not the best PC bUT iT wILL dO. lol
2007-02-25 08:09:43 · 6 answers · asked by maytag 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
nforce 2 is a bit dated chipset for gaming and even the 7300gt isn't really the card of choice anymore....I'd go with XP just to take as much load off the system as possible.
you're always gonna be chasing your tail a bit when it comes to gaming hardware....might want to think about throwin a few hundred bucks towards an xbox360 or playstation....solid 5 years of game support without any upgrading headaches
besides....you could always download vista off a p2p for free if you really want to run it
2007-02-25 08:17:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Stay with Winxp, as Vista will be much slower in games. Even though the sound card (according to model) might help, the video card is the extreme bottleneck of the system. You really need a much better video card then that. The cpu is fast enough, another 1gb can help out. A sound card with a DSP chip, can help some. In games, it's the video card that is the most important part. http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html
2007-02-25 09:39:10 · answer #2 · answered by computertech82 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yahoo video games has a great decision of on line video games you could play with different persons. For video games you could play on my own, fb has various good ones like Bejeweled, Peggle, and Tetris.
2016-12-14 05:32:15 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have to say it all depends on how important sound is to you.
If amazing sound is more important to you than a new, buggy, operating system; then get the sound card.
2007-02-25 08:16:22 · answer #4 · answered by Bjorn 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if you have xp right now i'd stay with it, wait at least another month or two for vista
but you can try this site to see how you'd fair
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/buyorupgrade/upgradeadvisor.mspx?wt_svl=20009a&mg_id=20009b
2007-02-25 08:24:06 · answer #5 · answered by ash7600 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your pcwould work just fine if it has windows xp
2007-02-25 08:12:45 · answer #6 · answered by mybackyardbaseball 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋