What about my RAM ? Must I buy a new one ?

You have

To play LFD2 you will require 2Gb you have 1744Mb less than required
To play Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising you will require 1Gb you have 744Mb less than required
I have a NvIdea Geforce 7600 GT (512Mb) bought recently $120AUS and only 1553Mb of RAM so I'm unable at this stage to play LFD2 too (I only have a CRT monitor).

#9 in this thread has already taken care of that issue; but thanks again ucloud

And emman it doesn't matter how much upgradation you do to your current system; it will not take you much further with regard to playing games like L4D2.

So, if you want casual gaming just get one card from the choices I've gathered for you in your system; and thats about all I would recommend, keeping in view all the facts. Spending much more on such an old rig will not make sense in my view. Importantly I doubt very much that you'll be able to find 'new' ram (DDR266 SDRAM) modules for your system anyway; and even if you do, they will be exorbitantly expensive, again an unwise way to spend your money.

Ok , thanks alot Archean . And that other guy . But , i cnnt find HD4670 AGP in Singapore . This is where the problems starts .

Ack ...... how come?

You can either ask one of your local hardware sellers (who offers you a good deal ofcourse ) to get one for you; or you may order it on the web, though it will take some time to get to you in either case.

Welcome and goodluck

Okay , thanks . I already found HD3850 AGP , and it costs $192 singapore dollars . And the PSU requirements is 450W and above which costs $149 singapore dollars .

I have no idea about value of Singaporean dollar, however, if its available grab and run with it

Reasonably powerful AGP graphic cards are hard to come by these days.

Okay, thanks.

Singapore dollars is about the same as Australian dollars, which is about AUD$1: USD$0.80.

Which makes that card a very expensive low-end card.

Doesn't change the fact that his system's spec still doesn't meet the requirements for L4D2 no matter what. CPU requirements says minimum is a Core2Duo, and as far as I know, LGA775 motherboards with AGP slots are pretty hard to come by.

Mine is a Pentium 4 .

I guessed as much. Which means you wouldn't be able to play L4D2 very smoothly, if at all.

Upgrading your graphics card to the best available for the AGP system won't help too much I suspect, even with everything turned way down....


Anything that would plug into your current system would not be value for money; performance/$ would be very low, plus (depending on exactly how old your system is) the fact that you may start to have "aging" problems with your computer. Components like the CPU might have a long life, but motherboard capacitors don't; PSU's have caps which fail with time too; and don't forget HDDs, which can fail even when new are much much more likely to fail after 5 years.


So unless you absolutely cannot wait to upgrade and can't afford anything better, or have some program with will run only on that PC (or some other reason not to change to a whole new PC), I suggest you get a new one.

http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic51437.htmlw

poor link....

poor link took a while but I think this was the reference http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic51437.html
Not that we think that @jojodancer you're boasting at all about that new config. Antec 300 case etc. etc.etc. :grinthumb

That rig is at least 10 years old, time to junk it and start over IMHO.
Roughly $600 would get you a packaged system at a store that would be a huge upgrade.

The best advice we can give you is to upgrade your system as well.
Seeing as most new games, assuming thats what you are gona use it for as well, needs a lot of processing power, upgrade to atleast a core 2 duo. It is alot cheaper to buy new these days than trying to upgrade an old pc.

If you need info on specific options, ask again!

How to upgrade to intel core 2 duo ?

Keeping in view your old system specs, its pretty much a new system except monitor I think. You will need to replace:

1. Motherboard
2. CPU
3. RAM
4. HDD (as I think your old one may be an IDE HDD)
5. PSU
6. Graphics Card
7. ATX Casing
8. Keybaord & Mouse

Now; if you have a general idea how much you'd want to spend on this upgrade; let us know as it will enable us to advise more appropriately.

thx people , i really appreciate all you guys .. ( =