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Subject: Re: System Requirements
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You can probrably get a nice gaming desktop for under $1000. I pretty much
doubt you can upgrade video cards for Laptops. The only thing that you
could upgrade on your system is the processor but that will certainly set
you back a few hundred bucks and it won't do it for graphics/processor
intensive games. The other advantage of a desktop is that virtually
everything in it is upgradeable so it's your choice.
"Anonymous" <anonymous@home.net> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
>
> Perhaps someone has a suggestion for improved gaming performance. I have
> been playing Call of Duty lately which is very graphic + processor
> intensive. I have the following hardware:
>
> HP Pavilion ze4325us notebook with:
>
> 1. 512 MB ddr sdram (128 of which is shared video memory) 266 mhz bus.
> 2. ATI Radeon graphics card - 128 MB of shared video memory.
> 3. Athlon XP mobile 1.6 GHz processor.
> 4. 256 kb L2 cache
>
> I honestly don't have a horrible system. It isn't a gaming system but I
> have EVERY POSSIBLE GRAPHICS OPTION turned to either 'low' or 'fastest'.
> For instance, texture quality is set to low, sound quality is set to low,
et
> cetera. The game actually playes nicely until I get into a high action
> situation - for instance a bunch of guys in the same room that I need to
> clear out ... then things really get choppy. Do people just live with
this
> sort of thing, or is there something I can do, short of scrapping the
system
> and shelling out 2 G's for a gaming system?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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