Thread: Gaming on the PC

I put together a PC with the spare parts I had from an old PC I had. Parts are
- AMD 3200+
- ATi HD4650 512mb DDR2
- 1gb DDR
- Some old 40gb HDD

I want to know how well it will run modern games, obviously not on high but can it manage?

Thanks.

Can it play some modern games? Yes! Manage them. Maybe! It will really depend on the game he plays and how well he'll be able to play the game on the PC. Example: He will have a very hard time with GTA but could manage COD4 at low levels.

Can you spec out the motherboard you have. A cheap Athlon dual core might be a worthwhile upgrade along with another gig of ram if running xp. If running vista, 2 more.

I have the GA-K8NF9 Ultra motherboard.

I missed the 3200+ being socket 939.

Your CPU will be the weakest link in this. So OC the crap out of it if you can. Cut the OS processes so it’s running lean, and for modern, I'd say you'd be limited to the DX9 engines. The valve games should do okay, not great, but okay.

By the way I have Athlon 64 +3200 with a Radeon 4350 and i play a lot of MMOs like Guild Wars and stuff so it seems fine for that. It was a huge upgrade from is 2.7GHz celeron. I like to play a lot of those free MMOs and it seems fine for that so if that's what you’re going to do you should be good. You may want to add another stick of RAM there.

Actually, I know it'll play Crysis on low, 'cause I did with an AMD 3000+ (S754) and an X800GTO, both of which are far weaker than that system. So it should play pretty much anything, though your settings might be on or near low.