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A mate gave me a PC he was done with to us for gaming (driving sim, I have one of those geeky full seat and steering wheel set ups).
the key specs are Pentium 4 3GHz, 2 GB of RAM and a NVIDIA 7300 video card.
On installing one of the newer games it is running at about 10 frames per second. I know f-all about windows machines having had Macs for years. Is it the video card letting this machine down? If so can someone point me to a cheapish card that I should be looking at the get the machine doing the job.
It's because that is a really low spec computer these days. It is only about equivalent to a new iPad!!
Rachel
Hint....[quote=mattjevans ]A mate gave me a PC he was done with
Is it the video card letting this machine down?
Yes
And the Processor
And most of the rest of the machine.
To be fair, when that machine was new (probably around 2005 looking at the specs of it) it wasn't a gaming machine even back then. 7 years later and it's a very slow bit of kit.
If you want fast graphics, a faster graphics card would help, but you're wasting your time hoping for superb performance just by putting a half decent graphics card in that even. Aside from the fact you'll be shopping for 2nd hand GFX cards for a machine of that era most likely, all putting a decent GFX card in will do is highlight just how slow the rest of the system is.
I gave away a system with higher specs than that to someone as an internet machine last year, was just no use to me and wasn't worth £20 even on ebay!
Actually it was an one from his work, he works in IT and has a fair number around the house and the garage...
thanks. junk it is then. this is why I stick to Apple
What Apple are you going to run your driving simulator on?
thanks. junk it is then. this is why I stick to Apple
Would an equivalent spec apple would run games faster...?
thanks. junk it is then. this is why I stick to Apple
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What Apple are you going to run your driving simulator on?
One running Bootcamp?
I used to run it on a Mac Pro with Windows 7 installed on the Bootcamp drive. Funnily enough that hardware seemed to run plenty fast enough, and while I had to deal with Windows a bit to get the sim running, I didn't have any hardware difficulties.
For various reasons it's not an option any more.
Would an equivalent spec apple would run games faster...?
Oh, you're one of those...
Its just a 7 year old pc...therefore will die with anything more than a bit of internet and java games.
It has nothing to do with Apple vs PC.
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OK well thanks for the education anyway. Had no idea the machine was that old, specs meant nothing to me.
Nothing wrong with that PC for general use, needs a bit more ram but it's faster than anything I was using up to July this year when i got myself an i5 laptop as I need it for work. But for modern games it won't cut it.
I need to pick up something like that for a new media/storage PC for my house as the current PC is an old 2.4 ghz P4 with rubbish graphics. Old machines like that with a bit more ram are perfect for turning into linux/ubuntu/xbmc machines. (except you can get more power with less power consumption from newer stuff)
Don't worry. Your lack of technical knowledge makes you the perfect Apple customer.
Sent from my iPad.
🙂
Apple?!
More like Crapple!
amirite folks!
8)
Yep, you're [s]rite[/s] a scrote, no doubt about it
Yep, you're rite a scrote, no doubt about it
Apple users are so bitter.
Bitter to the core.
😡
Bitter to the core.
Boom boom !
That's Basil Brush by the way, I would guess from "more like Crapple" that you are still at secondary school and so won't have heard of him.