What should i upgrade?

Do you guys think i should upgrade anything for my computer? i want it more like a gaming computer

Ditch Vista and go with XP... Seriously, all I see is to increase memory from 1GB to 2

Why should i ditch vista? doesnt DirectX 10 give better gaming perfomance? and what would extra ram do?

Dx10 doesnt necessarily give better performance, you wont see much difference with xp, although since you already have vista i propose keeping it, as to i have used xp 32 and 64 bit along with vista ultimate. Upgrade your ram to 2 gigs and you should be fine.

Can Ram make my computer faster? because since i installed Vista my comp is a bit slowere when opening games

A lot of games are not well suited for Vista yet. That's why I mentioned using XP for gaming instead. I don't really think you should ditch Vista. I was half-kidding when I suggested that. 2 GB of ram will improve the overall performance of Vista, and a better video card may help too

It will.. when games start using it to its potential...

Yes my gosh yes yes yes. 1gb is passable, putting all eye candy and side bar away, 2gb is recommended, only if you have the cash...

so he means dual booting.. if you really want to go through that fuss...

a better video card? wait. theres a diffrence between graphic and video card?

A video or graphics card is the same thing. The DX10 API will need a DX10 graphics card to use it to full advantage. You will see slower performance with a DX9 graphics card in DX10 games since it will need to emulate DX10. Bump up your RAM to 2GB and you'll be fine. DX10 is also going to be coming on XP (a third party company is coding it for XP), so there's no reason to use Vista ATM, unless you want slower performance\frequent crashes with the crap drivers released by NVIDIA.

A video or graphics card is the same thing. The DX10 API will need a DX10 graphics card to use it to full advantage. You will see slower performance with a DX9 graphics card in DX10 games since it will need to emulate DX10. Bump up your RAM to 2GB and you'll be fine. DX10 is also going to be coming on XP (a third party company is coding it for XP), so there's no reason to use Vista ATM, unless you want slower performance\frequent crashes with the crap drivers released by NVIDIA.

Graphics usually refers to on-board video, that is a graphics chip built in to the motherboard. Video card usually refers to an added PCI or AGP video card installed on the motherboard.

From your system specs, can I guess you are running on-board video? If you are, for gaming, an add on video or graphics card is usually best

@Tmagic650, he has an 8800GTS.

I actually never liked Vista... but do you know when DX10 comes for XP? kinda the only reason i got it

Ok Rage,
I don't use Nvidia cards so I didn't know wether it was on-board or not. Thanks for the heads-up...

... and Daner,

we really have to give Vista a chance. Computers and computer parts are getting cheaper and cheaper. Building or buying a PC powerful enough to run Vista great, will be as common as XP eventually. Not many video cards support DX10 right now anyway. Let's give Vista a little more time

okay thanks for the advice guys.. i will buy some more RAM

Daner,
be aware that there are game patches available for Vista. If you have trouble running a game, check for a patch

This is my uncles system specs. I think that his computer is running ALOT smoother and faster than mine. I know he has more RAM but is there anything else thats better than mine?

I would check for myself but i dont understand computers that much

This is simple Daner. You uncle is running XP Professional, SP2. That's what I run. You are running Vista and Vista is brand new

So youre suggesting i should go back to XP?

btw i found a RAM block. its a Kingston ValueRAM - 1 GB - DIMM 240-pin - DDR II hope that should be enough

Going back to XP will free up about 512mb or ram alone, adding that extra 1gb or ram on top of that will make everything run really smooth. Now I would suggest that you use XP but if you need to use Vista too I would dual boot both OS's.