Sticky this thread! Can you run it? Is a great program, it is safe.. and I have used it forever.
Try a couple different games you are interested in.. then you will have an idea of where you need MORE POWER!!
Upgrading any rig is genius.. This 10+ yrs old, big @ss generic ATX case, has nothing but the power button and the dead 3.5 drive left from the original (Piece-O-S...) build.
4 CPUs, 5 HHDs, 6 PSUs, 8 GPUs, and a dozen MoBos later, I am still happy with it.
You always want to upgrade/buy in a direction that allows for room to improve that latter, when those parts are even cheaper.
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Although, With RAM, Size does matter. It is one area where you can never have too much.. Windows doesnt really use it all, but its like a back up generator, Vista is up to 8 (?or was it 16 depending on MoBo?) and Xp will use close to 4GB( I KNOW, it only uses 3.2ish)... and 1GB sticks are sooooo cheap now.
If you have too, get bigger sticks.. 2gb/4gb sticks if you dont have the space on your board.. the load times are WORTH IT!!
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