A worthy upgrade or not???Help please..

[rollerball]

Hey guys...just wanted to know If I should bother upgrading...Ive been offered a cheap pc....Ive got mame running in cab on a P3 600 with 65mb ram....and can go to a Pentuim III , 1GHZ
512 MB RAM (PC133)


worth the upgrade or wont make much of a difference???Thanks any comments would be good....Im mostly playing older games...

[leapinlew]

how much is cheap?

is there things you can't run now that you think the new machine will?

[rollerball]

cost about $40-$60 australian....so dirt cheap really...maybe like to play metal slug...not sure if the upgrade would help much...or keep the money for a better rig??

[AtomSmasher]

Assuming $40-60 isn't a lot of money to you, you should definately do the upgrade.  It'll have 67% more processing power and enough ram to be able to run windows xp smoothly.  Also, a 1 ghz computer should have no problem running any of the metal slug games.

[rollerball]

Cheers thanks for that...will probably do it then....cheers

[vrf]

Yeah, the RAM boost is worth the price even if the CPU was the same. I'd say go for it. 65 megs to 512 megs is a huge improvement.

[Crafty]

If nothing else it could be the start of another project...

[rollerball]

OH MY GOD please no...not another machine...lol...mmmm not a bad idea...save the p3 600 for a cocktail vertical

[Kevin Mullins]

For the price....defineately go for it.
Like said before, the RAM change alone will make a huge difference.
Should do just what you want it to.

I run all the Metal Slugs just fine on a AMD Duron 650.
But I also have more RAM.....
(and keep all the background stuff to a bare minimum)