Howdy all,
I've got a 6600GT video card coming in the mail to go with my Athlon XP 2800+ cpu and 512 MB of RAM. I've got a nice ATA WD hard drive (160 gigs with 8mb cache). I'm basically wanting to use this PC for gaming (which I did until my 9600XT bit the dust) until the M2 platform is widely available for my next upgrade. Is this possible? I don't want top notch settings, just good looking graphics at lower resolution settings (1024x768) for the newer games. I was thinking I would get another 512 mb of RAM for a total of 1 gig (I don't want to put a lot of money into DDR if DDR2 will be what my next platform uses). Would you agree? Otherwise, what do you think I'll need? Thanks.
I've got a 6600GT video card coming in the mail to go with my Athlon XP 2800+ cpu and 512 MB of RAM. I've got a nice ATA WD hard drive (160 gigs with 8mb cache). I'm basically wanting to use this PC for gaming (which I did until my 9600XT bit the dust) until the M2 platform is widely available for my next upgrade. Is this possible? I don't want top notch settings, just good looking graphics at lower resolution settings (1024x768) for the newer games. I was thinking I would get another 512 mb of RAM for a total of 1 gig (I don't want to put a lot of money into DDR if DDR2 will be what my next platform uses). Would you agree? Otherwise, what do you think I'll need? Thanks.