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Old Aug 06, 2009, 10:42 PM // 22:42   #1
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Be able to play guild wars rather smoothely and still enjoy Haing with friends with a computer with these specs.

2.2 Gh/P4, 80GB, 512mem

I just moved out. I dont really know alot about computers just trying to buy one that will still allow my to play gw. Fast responses please looking to maybe buy this today. Also i will be on high speed cox internet so internet will not be a problem.
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Old Aug 06, 2009, 11:58 PM // 23:58   #2
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Yes. My primary GW machine is a Mac Mini with roughly the same specs and except for very minor scenery popup issues it works flawlessly.

You did omit your video card however. If it's an onboard chipset that intel branded... tends to crash various areas of EotN.
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Old Aug 06, 2009, 11:58 PM // 23:58   #3
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Should work fine, as long as your graphics card is decent. Probably won't be able to run full specs, but even at medium power it should run fine. Although, post your video card specs just to be sure.
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Old Aug 07, 2009, 12:01 AM // 00:01   #4
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Buying something with these stats, it seems quite old. A p4 processor?
What is the price on this, and do you know what video card it has? It seems like a really weak computer to be "new". You can pick up a laptop tons better for pretty cheap, and a desktop even cheaper.
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Old Aug 07, 2009, 12:24 AM // 00:24   #5
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If it has Hyper Threading you might be able to get some power out of that old machine. Definitely get more ram, find out what it takes and get like 2 GB of ram and see if it has an AGP slot, if it does you can get pretty good cards like a Radeon HD 2600 in AGP still and they rock.
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Old Aug 07, 2009, 07:59 AM // 07:59   #6
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I only payed 140 for it so i got an amazing deal. It has to build in video card so i am getting issures with crashing. Fail. how do i find out what kind of slot i have so i know what video card to buy?
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Old Aug 08, 2009, 08:12 AM // 08:12   #7
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Open it up and look inside.
You're looking for...

That's a PCI slot, generally speaking, you don't want to use that for a video card unless that's all you have.
Or this...

That's an AGP slot. They're quite cheap to find cards for, and most likely, that's what you'll have in your computer.
Or last...

A PCI-E slot. Notice the difference, where the slot's break point is. On a PCI-E slot, it'll be towards the back of the case, on a regular PCI slot, it's closer towards the front of the case. PCI-E slots also generally have a locking mechanism, where regular PCI's don't.

Post back whichever you have.
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Old Aug 08, 2009, 12:00 PM // 12:00   #8
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If it has Hyper Threading you might be able to get some power out of that old machine. Definitely get more ram, find out what it takes and get like 2 GB of ram and see if it has an AGP slot, if it does you can get pretty good cards like a Radeon HD 2600 in AGP still and they rock.
you can actually get ATI radeon hd4650 in AGP
ati apparently isnt giving up on agp
also hi chris
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