Hi Y'all
I have a poser for you guys since I'm pretty much technologically
challenged as far as hardware and systems go. .
To wit -- I have a Sony Vaio (model PCV W20) that my daughter
handed down to me. It's specs are: Pent 4 CPU, 1.80 GHZ, 480MB
RAM and it has an on board SIS 650_65i_740 shared mem video card.
Since I already have a Dell desktop, I want to use the Vaio strictly
as a gaming machine but it's woefully lacking the juice to play games
from the last few years or so and I don't want to open it up because
I know I'll be over my head in installing any new hardware. So I was
wondering what kind of external hardware I could buy.
What I mean is that I know there are external Graphics Cards out
there but I haven't a clue on how that would work. I also know I can get
external memory cards. (do they go into the PC Card slots?)
And finally, (and thanks for forbearing this lengthy post) what would
be the wisdom (or lack of) in doing something like this?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
JimRazz
I have a poser for you guys since I'm pretty much technologically
challenged as far as hardware and systems go. .
To wit -- I have a Sony Vaio (model PCV W20) that my daughter
handed down to me. It's specs are: Pent 4 CPU, 1.80 GHZ, 480MB
RAM and it has an on board SIS 650_65i_740 shared mem video card.
Since I already have a Dell desktop, I want to use the Vaio strictly
as a gaming machine but it's woefully lacking the juice to play games
from the last few years or so and I don't want to open it up because
I know I'll be over my head in installing any new hardware. So I was
wondering what kind of external hardware I could buy.
What I mean is that I know there are external Graphics Cards out
there but I haven't a clue on how that would work. I also know I can get
external memory cards. (do they go into the PC Card slots?)
And finally, (and thanks for forbearing this lengthy post) what would
be the wisdom (or lack of) in doing something like this?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
JimRazz