Motep,

We used a GeForce FX 5500 OC to play RTW with most items on high or highest with normal sized units or many things on medium to low for large units. A 5800 will probably still only have 2 to 4 pipes and reduced width and bit compared to more robust 6th Gen. GeForce cards with up to 16 pipelines and better bitrates which seem to be around where the game is playing reasonably... Meaning, I think your card can play the game M2TW, but not much will be on "high" and you may be playing with small units to achieve 'relatively smooth' play. On the other hand, your Ram is barely enough to allow your system to work for much beyond the Windows OS itself, and there is likely an underpowered CPU lurking around there though you didn't tell us what it was. If only your card were on the low side, I might risk saying go for it and see what happens, but "its beginning to look a lot like christmas" will be neccessary (replace your sys- you need a new mobo anyway with PCI Ex interface for the modern gens of vid cards). Only good news is that many cards and system components you will need to make the game run like a dream are a lot less expensive (than when I bought them!!!) now that even newer items are out or coming soon and the dual core competition is in full swing.

Chopa,
I am really sorry, but much of what you have is really out of date, and cpus using the 478 socket will limit you considerably. Best likely to still be around are things like the Prescott single-core P-IV in the 3.0 ghz range. They will still have an L2 cache of 1 mb, and should also come with hyperthreading. Dothans are Pentium Ms, and these single cores are outmodes despite their hefty L2 caches. The Northwoods are cool with the 13 mu process, but lack hyper threading and SSE3 and a few other things. A few Prescott 3 gigs for the 478 are available at Newegg, Monarch, E bay and the like in the under $100 range. Even less if you like open box... Some of these should have hyper threading (which you want) and they will have sse 1,2,and 3 and a few other things you will want along with lower voltage requirements and some other conveniences if you are an overclocker. (I'm not but many are). That said, there is no 64 bit support and these cpus, while adequate to play M2TW, are woefully behind the curve in general since multi cores and some single AMD cores use memory controls right on the chip called Hypertransports which eliminate fsbs altogether... Uh, ok, just trust me, a lot of tech has gone by the boards in the last 18 months, and 478s are as common as top hats and spats in church on sunday.

Your vid card is probably ok but to play to the max it would have to go, and your Ram should be increased, preferably doubled. I am an NVidia enthusiast, so I will make no reccomendations for your video card if you prefer ATI other than it will have to be a little more modern to cope.

Bob the Insane-
Totally cool system dude. Hope to hear how it sings right through the pip-squeak tasks you give it! The "I swear I didn't get it to play the game" comment strikes as just a _little_ forced though don't you think...?