• Upgrade for old prebuilt
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My mom is getting a new pc and is giving me her old one. Its a "compaq SR1230NX" with an added 512 mb of ram making it a total of 1 gb of ram. All that I would like the game to do is to play killing floor and other low end games. Budget would be 60 bucks. Heres the specs page [url]http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00239779&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&lc=en&dlc=&cc=us&lang=&product=431082[/url]
Motherboard is AGP 8x, power supply not listed and probably equally as defunct.. Basically useless for gaming purposes.
You should get the new one and she gets the old one Fairfair
Well, probably more sensible if he's gaming, and I assume she is only using it for basic functions (most often the case).
I already have gaming pc. The reason shes getting a new one is do to the fact that the current pc is slow and cant really do much without lagging. I just want options as to what to do with this old pc.
Send it to Africa, only way it'll make any use..
[QUOTE=ferrus;22282244]Motherboard is AGP 8x, power supply not listed and probably equally as defunct.. Basically useless for gaming purposes.[/QUOTE] I'm sure there must be atleast low end video card thats compatible for the mother board. I saw a 6200 that might be compatible so maybe theres other possible video cards to choose from. This will just be used for low end gaming.
[QUOTE=FLAPJACKDANNY;22283802]I'm sure there must be atleast low end video card thats compatible for the mother board. I saw a 6200 that might be compatible so maybe theres other possible video cards to choose from. This will just be used for low end gaming.[/QUOTE] I'll be honest, $60 isn't much to spend, but here's something that looks pretty awesome. AGP 8x, but with DX10.1 and an HDMI port. For $55 [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102862[/url]
Thanks man thats the answer that I wanted to hear. This should be good enough.
Or you could just give the old thing a good cleaning and it'll run as new.
[QUOTE=Nekrietns;22287410]Or you could just give the old thing a good cleaning and it'll run as new.[/QUOTE] You do realize his computer doesn't have a graphics card at all, and is running completely on integrated, which can't run anything, right?
[QUOTE=robmaister12;22287479]You do realize his computer doesn't have a graphics card at all, and is running completely on integrated, which can't run anything, right?[/QUOTE] Agreed when I took it for a spin it lagged a small bit on halflife.
[QUOTE=robmaister12;22287479]You do realize his computer doesn't have a graphics card at all, and is running completely on integrated, which can't run anything, right?[/QUOTE] But in the OP it states his mom is getting a new PC because the current one is "sluggish". If OP'd just clean the damn thing it'd run like new.
I did clean like 2 weeks ago it to see if it would speed up. Couldn't get thermal paste on it though due to the fact that the heat sink is really latched on.
I meant clean as in clear the harddrive and reinstall windows.
Stick some RAID drives in there and use it as a backup server
[QUOTE=Nekrietns;22288816]I meant clean as in clear the harddrive and reinstall windows.[/QUOTE] How will that make it run better on games? I tried running killing floor last week and it messed up textures mixed with lag. It takes more than cleaning a harddrive to boost performance.
Wasn't it's original purpose to do basic work for your MOM? I'm just trying to save your mom from wasting money.
yeah and she likes to watch videos which the pc cant seem to do properly. Either way she already bought the new pc.
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