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Pls help upgrading my machine

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vickymustdie Original post #1
Dec 5, 2007 at 8:15 PM
Dear Digitians,

This is vicky again. I'm stucked with my machine these days, as I think it's outdated. I'm not able to play any new games on it.

Pls help me with what Upgradation needs to be done with my machine so that I can play NFS PROSTREET and CRYSIS smoothly on my machine.

System Configuration :

O.S. : Windows XP SP2
Processor : AMD Athlon XP 1.15 Mhz
Motherboard : Asus A7N8XE
Ram : 1GB
HDD : 250 GB
Graphics : NVidia Geforce FX 5700 LE
Speakers : Creative 5.1


Pls help me with the eligible updation for my machine as i've very tight budget for the upgradation.

Any suggestion will be appreciable.
dOm1naTOr
dOm1naTOr #2
Dec 5, 2007 at 8:49 PM
If ur budget is low, then get AMD, else go for C2D.
If ur budget is ~15k, then i wud suggest u to go for AMD

AMD Athlon X2 4400 : 3.5k
Asus M2A VM: 3.3k
2*1GB DDR2 667: 2k
XFX 860GT: 5.8k

U can keep ur existing HDD nd speakers. Orelse get another 250GB HDD sata2 for 2.6k

8600GT is enuf for avg gamin like crysis @1280*1024 @ med.