Based on my computer specs, what should I upgrade to improve my gameing experience?

Question

I mostly play battle field 2:special forces alot, when I get in a game online, it appears a bit laggy/glitchy for the first 45 seconds or so... not much of a problem, but, based on my computers specs, which part of my PC could I upgrade to see the biggest change for the better when I play games? This is just a computer from best buy, so its not that high performanced.

AMD Sempron Processor 3300+ 2.0GHz

100GB hard drive

736MB of ram (previously upgraded this)

Video Card: nVIDIA GeForce 6100

Answer 1

The video card is the most noticeable issue, Post your price range and AGP or PCI express. I'll look back later and make a recomendation. I hope you have one of these, if not there's not alot we can do.

Answer 2

I mostly play battle field 2:special forces alot, when I get in a game online, it appears a bit laggy/glitchy for the first 45 seconds or so... not much of a problem, but, based on my computers specs, which part of my PC could I upgrade to see the biggest change for the better when I play games? This is just a computer from best buy, so its not that high performance and thats it

Answer 3

Upgrading RAM and video card are never a bad idea if you play games. However if its only bad for the first 45 seconds I don't think its your hardware thats causing this problem at all. Chances are either your internet is not fast enough, the server your connecting to is slow or overloaded, or the game is doing something for the first 45 seconds to get it ready for playing (maybe downloading skins/maps/etc..) If the game plays just fine after that 45 seconds there won't be any hardware upgrade you can do to change the performance of the first 45 seconds its slow.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

i would upgrade the ram to either 1 or two gb9(1024mb or 2056mb), and also upgrade your video card to XFX GeForce 7600 GT / 256MB GDDR3 / SLI / PCI Express / Dual DVI / HDTV / Video Card which is about 150$
if yu want a cheaper solution the EVGA GeForce 7600 GT 256MB PCIe is 100$
i would also reccomend for 150$ the ATI Radeon X1600 Pro 512MB PCIe
another idea would be for 75$ EVGA GeForce 7300 GT 512MB PCIe

these can all be purchased at a number of websites such as tigerdirect.com(my personal favorite)
newegg.com
and many more

Answer 6

I am assuming you are running PC2700 Ram? I would get the Corsair Extreme Overclocking Ram. I have 1.5 gigs of it and Its been overclocked for 5 years now. Works awesome.
I have a PNY Geforce 6600 vid card but I am going to get an ATI, more stable for BF2.

Answer 7

BF2 is a memory hog, I would get more memory, 2 gigs preferrably, and a better video card. In fact with a AMD sempron processor you might think about saving your money and getting a whole new computer.

Answer 8

ram to at least 1GB, maybe 1.5GB to have better performance
then video card to maybe a geforce 7 series
that should help greatly

Answer 9

get a new video card

is the geforce6100 the on board video card

Answer 10

Hi. Lots more RAM.