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Old June 30th, 2006, 02:24 PM
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You need to upgrade your motherboard to get AGP 8x, unfortunately, Socket A (Athlon XP) Motherboards are hard to find new


So... you need a new CPU as well

And possibly new RAM

So you might aswell get a new system

So you probably want something around an AMD3500 or better, possibly a dual core CPU

Ofcourse a new motherboard

Ram, you would want about 1gb, its not that expensive these days
DDR400 for AMD, DDR2-533+ for Intel...(not sure on the figures, havent looked into the latest figures recently)

Graphics card, you want a 6600 or higher for nice quality graphics on the games you mentioned

HDD - 200Gb+ are like the best value HDDs

A DVD Burner

Still, for a really good system we need your budget, How much and the currency

You could wait a while for AMD AM2 Socket CPUs to become cheaper, and take advantage of DDR2 on AMD
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