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BENSAX3 · 10th February 2007, 19:16

normally for the ram it is plug and play if you have xp but the garphics card may need a different power supply depending on what one you get

Robbo · 10th February 2007, 20:20

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Originally Posted by BENSAX3

normally for the ram it is plug and play if you have xp but the garphics card may need a different power supply depending on what one you get

yeh i got xp, someone told me the ram is just plug it in. what do you meen different power supply?

MTR · 10th February 2007, 20:30

you will need quite a good card to play Hitman. I'm thinking from your pc you will only have an agp port [what your graphics card 'sit' in] so choices are a tad more limited. One of the final AGP cards was the Geforce 6800GT which is a great card for hitman. Ebay might yeild some great results for that type of card. It needs one extra while molex power connector as it sucks a lot of power from the supply.
Some thing along these lines: Ebay

Robbo · 10th February 2007, 21:42

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Originally Posted by MTR

you will need quite a good card to play Hitman. I'm thinking from your pc you will only have an agp port [what your graphics card 'sit' in] so choices are a tad more limited. One of the final AGP cards was the Geforce 6800GT which is a great card for hitman. Ebay might yeild some great results for that type of card. It needs one extra while molex power connector as it sucks a lot of power from the supply.
Some thing along these lines: Ebay

mate your a star!

thanks for everyones help

Robbo

MTR · 11th February 2007, 00:55

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Originally Posted by Robbo

mate your a star!

thanks for everyones help

Robbo

No problem at all.

Robbo · 11th February 2007, 13:56

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Originally Posted by MTR

you will need quite a good card to play Hitman. I'm thinking from your pc you will only have an agp port [what your graphics card 'sit' in] so choices are a tad more limited. One of the final AGP cards was the Geforce 6800GT which is a great card for hitman. Ebay might yeild some great results for that type of card. It needs one extra while molex power connector as it sucks a lot of power from the supply.
Some thing along these lines: Ebay

just found a problem with this graphics card...... wont it be too high spec for my comp and basically slow my comp down?

getting so much more confusing coz i showed a mate what the gameplay was like and he said its more of a problem with the processor.

reason im wanting to upgrade is im starting to play more pc games and want the most enjoyment.... im not just upgrading so i can play this one game before anyone thinks im weird lol

Col468 · 11th February 2007, 14:34

right, RAM is plug and play, IF it is the correct type of ram, ill explain...

you get different type of ram, most common these days is DDR and DDR2, most older computers use SD... there is also, VRAM, RDRAM, NVRAM, and i could go on...

the type of ram MUST be the same otherwise it just wont fit into your motherboard!

you also get different BUS speeds of the RAM. PC2100, PC2700, PC3200, PC3500, PC3700. if you have 2 ram in your motherboard with different bus speeds then they will both work at the Smaller bus speed.

This doesn't make that much difference but what you don't want to do is waste money buying ram with a faster bus speed than u already have, because it will be more expensive, therefore wasting money.

What you really need to know is what the ram in your computer is now, then buy one the same speed.

and buying a graphics card... make sure you have the slot on your motherboard, i have an APG is the port that you plug it into on the board.
you get PCI, PCI-Express, and APG. PCI all motherboards have (apart from older ones that have ICA, but forget about that) computers that are 2 years old will most probably have APG but PCI-Express is now the best.

I can explain this to you all day, but what we really need to know is the full spec of your computer. lol.

Col468 · 11th February 2007, 14:35

i 4got to highlight
make sure you have the slot on your motherboard for your graphics card

MTR · 11th February 2007, 18:49

It's true your CPU could be a lot better but with 1GIG of mem and the graphics card i mentioned you'd still have a good games playing machine. In time you could put a faster AMD CPU in there but best bang-for-buck at the moment will be the card and ram.

djmartin · 11th February 2007, 21:19

geforce get that card there sick

tbh the trade rate at the moment is low for RAM......PM and i can get you the stuff at trade rate

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furiomike · 11th February 2007, 22:42

it seems a bit drastic, all this upgrading for one game. especially when you could buy it for the 360 and buy a 360 as well for about the same price lol.

did you say you have other games that work properly? like which games? did we establish what grapics card you have. tbh a 1.8ghz sempron/512 ram is a bit 2003 in terms of decent performance.

djmartin · 11th February 2007, 22:53

yeh these days its dual processers and stuff now.

also if your goin for this kind of upgrade i you buy alot of games or you just aint gonna get your moneys worth in using it hence why like said above may aswell buy a 360 or a ps3

furiomike · 11th February 2007, 23:05

anyway its a dempanding game. i have a 2.8ghz p4 dual core, 1gb ram, x800 256mb and i know it wouldnt run it too great

Robbo · 12th February 2007, 17:05

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Originally Posted by furiomike

it seems a bit drastic, all this upgrading for one game. especially when you could buy it for the 360 and buy a 360 as well for about the same price lol.

did you say you have other games that work properly? like which games? did we establish what grapics card you have. tbh a 1.8ghz sempron/512 ram is a bit 2003 in terms of decent performance.

its not just for one game, im starting to play more and more pc games and enjoy them more than the 360

so its probably best to upgrade a few things here and there