Thread: PC Upgrade Help
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Old 03-31-2006, 04:18 AM   #1
T-D-C
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Join Date: October 26, 2003
Location: Sydney, Australia
Age: 44
Posts: 4,416
Well its that time...

My PC is looking a bit old in the tooth and I've come to the decision either to

A: Upgrade my current hardware
B: Just buy a new PC

I'm looking to buy in the next 2-3 months and will have about $2500AUD to spend

What I want is to be able to play Oblivion and play Guild wars (at highest settings)

What I would like is an opinion on if I should upgrade or buy new. By the looks of things I'm at least going to have to get a new motherboard and processor so I'm thinking about just buying everything new and putting it together myself.

What could I get for my budget then ?

Here is my current set up according to Belarc:

Processor:
1.60 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
8 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache

Mainboard:
Board: i845
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. 6.00 PG 02/05/2002

RAM:
384MB (3x128MB chips)

Drives:
40.02 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
SONY CD-ROM CDU611
SONY CD-RW CRX300E [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removable media [Floppy drive]

Display:
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 [Display adapter]

Sound:
Intel(r) 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio Controller

Thanks for any help you can offer!
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