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Nucking Foobz · Jan 14, 2007, 01:51 AM // 01:51

P4 3Ghz 800 FSB CPU

INTEL ORIGINAL MB PCIE 16X

200GB SATA HDD 8MB cache

1G DDR2 533Ram DUAL CHANNEL

ASUS Geforce 6600TD SLI 256MB PCIE 16X GRAPHIC CARD DVI TV-OUT

INTEL 5.1 Sound

INTEL 10/100 Lan

I've seen this advertised for $750AUD.

I'm wondering how well this will run games like Guild Wars and WoW, and what sort of frame rate I'd be expecting with Max settings.

I currently have a:

AMD 1.3ghz CPU

512 DDR400 ram

Radeon 9550 256mb AGP graphics card.

Will I see a noticable improvement?

Thanks

MegaMouse · Jan 14, 2007, 06:29 AM // 06:29

It should run the game fine without problems. Not sure if you will ge the max settings out of it though might be a bit lower than max (just press Auto detect settings button). You should see a rather good performance increase with that settup.

Mega Mouse

darksiege · Jan 14, 2007, 06:48 AM // 06:48

If you can get another setup, you should. P4's are no good compared to Intel's new Core 2 Duos.

mrcake · Jan 14, 2007, 01:48 PM // 13:48

it will be an improvement but you would be wasting money on old technology.

I dont know any decent australian online stores so i priced something up on the first site i found.

Site was megapc.com.au

Description
1 CPU Intel - S775 - Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 Processor, 2MB L2 Cache, 1.86 GHz Clock Speed, Socket LGA775, FSB 1066MHz $282.70 ea

2 Motherboard Intel s775 - Asrock 775Dual-VSTA, Core 2, VIA chipset , 1066FSB, DDRII667, DDR 400, PCI-E, AGP, USB2.0, Audio $99.00 ea

3 Memory - DDR2 RAM - OCZ DDR2 PC2-4200, 1GB, 533MHz, Value Series $187.00 ea

4 Graphics Cards - PCI-E - Asus 7600GS Silent 256MB Graphics Card, 400MHz Core, 800MHz Memory, DVI and VGA $179.30 ea
Total: AU $748.00

The memory options they had were pretty crappy so i just stuck a cheapish one on there but you can get cheaper memory then that.

Now what you could do is just buy the motherboard and cpu as that asrock board excepts ddr or ddr2 memory and agp or pcie graphics cards so you can use your old ram and gfx card for the time being and save some cash to buy a decent graphics card like a 7900gt and dome decent ddr2 ram.

Thomas.knbk · Jan 14, 2007, 02:17 PM // 14:17

I run a comparable system:
p4 3 GhZ 800 FSB
915 chipset
1024MB ram 400ddr
nVidia 6800 256 MB

Runs 1600X1200 flawlessly.

Cow Tale · Jan 14, 2007, 02:30 PM // 14:30

ive got a p4 3ghz with 2gigs of ram and a radeon x700 pci express or something like. runs gw fine on max settings i ussually get about 55-61 fps in explorable areas and more like 30-40 in outposts. now i just wish comcast would come to my tiny ass little town. my crapy cable company only offers 2mb cable and i only get 40-300 ping, id say about an average of between 100-200. im used to getting ping of around 20 when i play counterstrike: source on the same connection. so i wish comcast would come with their 8mb cable. =)