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mo1e:
Hello all ive had my pc for roughly 4 years now. and although i dont know much about pcs and gaming it has served its purpose. I decided to give gaming a go on the pc but it only had an onboard radion xpress 200 graphics chip.

So yesterday i decided to buy a graphics card, because obviously its beter to have one then to just use the onboard chip. i bought a nvidia gforce gt 610 2gb. ( it was cheap and its got to be better then nothing) Anyway i ran a game and it looks great. alot better then i was hoping for, But the problem is that the game runs all choppy. is this due to the card or do i alse need to uprade the ram or cpu?

Here are my dissapointing specs  ;D

Windows xp service pack 2
compaq presario
amd athlon 64 processor
3200+
1.99 GHz, 512 MB of ram

mytymaus007:
not sure what yur main goal is to play emulator or just PC games but i would upgrade the memory especially for PC games, but all in all depending on the amount of money you have it might be cheaper to buy an updated PC. So i would make a list of things you want to use PC for and go from there
PL1:
The video card looks MORE than fine for running MAME (not much video card needed) or Visual Pinball/Future Pinball. (lots more video card needed)


--- Quote from: mo1e on September 04, 2012, 05:49:54 am ---512 MB of ram

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Looks like this might be a big part of the problem.  Bump it up to at least 1 GB, preferably 2 (maybe even 4) and I think you'll like the results.  Should cost you around ~$20-80 (not sure what variety of RAM your motherboard needs) and do way more for MAME than the card did.

If your MB can handle it and you can find a deal on a used 6000+ (Amazon has one for $75 used at the moment) you can triple your processor power, but considering the expense of buying the new video card, RAM, and processor, you might just want to return the card and take the plunge to get a new system.

If you don't take the plunge, consider fine tuning what processes are running.  After 4 years, who knows what you've got running in the background.   :dunno


Scott
paigeoliver:
You barely have enough ram to boot the system. My 4 year old PC came with 8 GB.
HaRuMaN:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on September 04, 2012, 05:40:56 pm ---You barely have enough ram to boot the system. My 4 year old PC came with 8 GB.

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64 bit OS.  He's most likely running 32 bit.
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