First post, by BigBodZod
I have been thinking of giving my brother a birthday gift in the form of upgrading his aging gaming machine.
The base it fine I think for his gaming needs and most likely I can get by with a small upgrade but wanted to see if anybody had any other suggestions.
Currently he is using an Intel D945 chipset motherboard with an older Pentium D, 3.4GHz CPU.
This is the older Dual-Core 775 type cpu and seem to be fine for clock rates and such.
It only has 2GB of ram installed and I can bump that to 4GB but this chipset will limit the mapped ram available to something like 3 or 3.2GB.
He is already using Windows XP Pro, x64-bit Edition so this maybe a sign of needing to update the OS at the same time along with a motherboard, new cpu ddr3 ram etc and maybe through in an SSD boot drive.
The issue is that I recycled an old Geforce 7800GTX GPU, which by todays standards is slow and it does cause stuttering being that his monitor is native 1680 x 1050 Widescreen mode.
The limitation he has is that the computer is housed in a LANbox by Thermaltake, so space/lenght of cards is limited. He can use a dual slot card but can only take a certain length of card, I will have to check what can fit inside the case.
Yes I could upgrade just the GPU and use it in DX9 mode for his gaming, just wanted to see if this was worth giving extra life to this rig or not.
Any thoughts ?
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