Lost cause?

[lemurian]

I made the grave mistake of buying the cheapest pc in the Littlewoods catalogue... Understandably, it's not much good for anything other than sending mail and making a deafening humming noise.

Is it possible/worthwhile to upgrade it so I can play 'The Hunter' game?

Apparently the minimum specifications are:

- Pentium 4 (3 Ghz)

- 1 GB RAM

-256 MB Nvidia: 7 Series (from 7600 and above) or ATI: X1800 (and above)I currently have, wait for it...

Celeron E1200 1.6 GHz

512 MB RAM

It's a foxconn G31 motherboard.

If it was a car, it would be a Lada Riva 1.2L (it bloody sounds like one too)

Cheers in advance.

[Plastic Nev]

Hi and welcome to Extreme Tech Support - Free PC Help.

A look at that motherboard, Foxconn - Products: Motherboard

tells me it will not support a processor of 3.0Ghz only up to 1.333.

However it states it will support Pentium 4.

it will also take up to 4GB of RAM and has PCIe-16, one slot, and PCIe-1,2 Slots so a graphics card is a possibility, however you may also need to upgrade the power supply to provide enough for a gaming graphics card. A lot depends on this lower speed support for the processor, which would have to be changed.

All in all, costs wise for the needed bits to upgrade, it could cost more than buying another machine for the purpose.

One of our gaming members may know a bit more, but I reckon it isn't worth upgrading.

Nev.

[lemurian]

Thanks for the advice, I suppose I'll just have to stick with playing Horace goes Skiing on the Spectrum!

[ajackson269]

Horace goes Skiing was a great game i still have my spectrum somewhere in the loft :)

[Tootech]

Bit of a correction here - the board you have linked to Nev will take newer Core 2 CPU's. The system spec quoted runs an E1200 - slow as a snail, especially with only 512MB memory.

 

Quote from the website.

 

Intel® Core™2 Quad, Core™2 Duo, Pentium® Dual-Core, Pentium® D, Pentium® 4, Celeron® processors, Socket T (LGA775)

 

You can speed that system up substantially.

 

Something like a Dual Core E5400, 2GB DDR2 RAM and labour would cost you about £170 inc labour at a local shop. You could do it yourself for about £100.