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As the title says, what is your most recent upgrade? Mine was to upgrade from 1GB of RAM to 1.5GB, through the help of a 512MB stick that i 'liberated' from a broken computer at school. The computer now starts up 20-30 seconds faster, and everything runs much faster. A great improvement, as i am no longer sluggish. BF2 has shown a marked improvement, with much less fps lag. Can't wait to try Oblivion!
So, what's your most recent upgrade?
My latest upgrade, was from a nasty and slow 128MB of RAM and a S3 ProSavage 32MB Graphics Card, to a, although still hopelessly rubbish, but drastically improved, 256MB RAM and a Nvidia Geforce 4 MX420 64MB Graphics Card.
On the gaming side of things, I was granted the ability to play all the latest games, although only on minimum settings. Also, my older games, now could be played on just below maximum settings - although one game continued causing a blue-screen due to it being a corrupted copy - oddly it worked with my last card though! However, on general system performance, I didn't see any really large changes, however, Windows, at the time Windows 98, seemed to install things slightly faster, and the PC ran multiple applications better - although was still very slow.
It was my new 240GB HDD, the old one(80GB) seems to be broken now so I upgraded just in time it seems.
You can play MTW2 on that? :dizzy2:Quote:
I was granted the ability to play all the latest games,
No upgrades here just a brand new pc. :wall:
The PC had the extreem surgery two years ago now. It had the capacity to play all of the latest games two years ago, but now, for game-playing, it's highly outdated. I intend to get another, much newer, PC soon, yet, for now, it's just a humble thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny
My Windows updated.
It was a delightful restart afterwards.
going from an ATI Radeon 9600 to an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (left over from my brother).
Surprisingly, M2:TW runs more than acceptable with it on modest settings and with shadows turned off :2thumbsup:
A 250GB external HD. My 75 GB internal HD couldn't hold nearly enough. Within a week I had another hundred GB in the external.
Before that, replaced 2x512 RAM with 2x1024. Very nice.
Next, if all goes according to plan (as if), a 640MB 8800GTS card. If I can work out a trade for it, I'll put down for a PCI-E MB and new CPU. That will be very, very nice.
I had to get a new 160GB harddrive since my previous one broke completely. Took a hell of a long time to find all of the drivers after installing mainly because I coudn't go online without the drivers.
Also, 900th post
a 160 GB new disk.
I cant live with a 20 GB one.
I think I will buy a 512MB Ram.I only have 256 MB:shame:
A new tower.
New 200G HD and a sweet 120mm fan.
A modest 7600GS to replace my 9600XT. It has made a hell of a difference to M2TW (runs large unit size, medium to high settings), and was a bargain for about £60. :balloon2:
In January, I bought my 2nd hard disk (WD 2500KS) and made software RAID 0 (stripped partition) in Win XP with old WD 1200JS. Also bought 2nd optical drive Pioneer DVR-111D, as my old NEC 3500AG have great problems with reading damaged optical disks, and with writing cd-rw and dvd+/-rw. And I bought new graphics card MSI GeForce 7600GS to replace old Club 3D Radeon 9800LE.
Also friend in service o/c processor and especially memory, and together with RAID 0, system work on edge. Too bad, my example of MSI GeForce 7600GS doesn't want to o/c :wall:. Friend has the same, and he o/c pretty much, but my crappy doesn't want to o/c for even 1 MHz. :whip: