I have an emachines W3503 PC. I was wondering what I should upgrade in order to have games like L4D run smoothly. When I first got it, it couldn't run L4D for shit, now it can run it, but only with a pretty low FPS (~15). I'm thinking the processor's to blame. What should I upgrade?
Specs: (all are stock unless otherwise mentioned:)
Budget: As cheap as possible (about $150 max, less would be better)
Mobo: Stock (not sure what it is sorry, I'll edit it when I find out)
Processor: Intel Celeron D 3.33GHz
Memory: 1.5 GB RAM (upgraded from 512 MB)
HDD: 160 GB
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 4350 (upgraded from a shitty ATI Radeon Xpress 200)
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate (from XP Media Center Edition)
Sound Card: (Again, don't know what this is)
Power Supply: (It's 1 AM here, i'll look this all up in the morning)
Cooling: (fuck CNET has nothing about this stuff)
Monitor: Acer LCD (about 17" i think, perfectly fine with this)
Anybody know what I should do?
To be perfectly honest, the Celeron is holding you back. The best thing you can probably do is think about a new build, with new case, mobo, PSU, GPU, and CPU. You're probably looking at AMD depending on budget
The CPU is the problem,
You aren't going to upgrade that thing. It uses DDR and the absolute best CPU you could put in it would be a Pentium D, which isn't much better than what that Celeron is now (just adds another netburst core).
Any money you spend on that thing is equivalent to taking it out of your wallet and lighting it on fire.
Save up some money and buy a better set of parts and build a machine yourself later on.
[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;19347543]You aren't going to upgrade that thing. It uses DDR and the absolute best CPU you could put in it would be a Pentium D, which isn't much better than what that Celeron is now (just adds another netburst core).
Any money you spend on that thing is equivalent to taking it out of your wallet and lighting it on fire.
Save up some money and buy a better set of parts and build a machine yourself later on.[/QUOTE]
I agree.
All of your parts are basically not up to par to play L4D well, but there are some improvements you can make. First, I would downgrade to Windows XP. With your configuration of 1.5GB ram that is NOT enough for Windows 7. With 7 you need AT LEAST 4GB.
[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;19347543]You aren't going to upgrade that thing. It uses DDR and the absolute best CPU you could put in it would be a Pentium D, which isn't much better than what that Celeron is now (just adds another netburst core).
Any money you spend on that thing is equivalent to taking it out of your wallet and lighting it on fire.
Save up some money and buy a better set of parts and build a machine yourself later on.[/QUOTE]
Alright, thanks. I guess a new build is the way to go. I should have done that from the start, not try to keep this shitty rig alive. :onlyoption:
[QUOTE=Solidjake330;19354285]With 7 you need AT LEAST 4GB.[/QUOTE]
hey there
just posting to let you know you're a giant idiot, and to ask you to wipe up the bullshit you just spat on the floor
thanks
[QUOTE=Jcobber;19354377]Alright, thanks. I guess a new build is the way to go. I should have done that from the start, not try to keep this shitty rig alive. :onlyoption:[/QUOTE]
I've been there, and still have one machine that I nurse along every now and then. It's a dual socket PIII server that I've had for almost 10 years and just can't let it go. It's been with me through thick and thin and I'll probably keep it until the board blows out.
[QUOTE=reapaninja;19355540]hey there
just posting to let you know you're a giant idiot, and to ask you to wipe up the bullshit you just spat on the floor
thanks[/QUOTE]
If you want to run anything more than the desktop, you need just about 4 GB minimum. I'm limping along on 2 GB because the 4 GB of memory that was in my W7 machine died and it's painful. Just having Gmod open almost makes the machine start swapping.
I game perfectly fine on Vista with 2GB, and seeing as 7 is supposedly better at memory usage...
[QUOTE=reapaninja;19355540]hey there
just posting to let you know you're a giant idiot, and to ask you to wipe up the bullshit you just spat on the floor
thanks[/QUOTE]
2010ers, pssh.
Yeah, Reapaninja is correct, Windows 7 32 bit does not take 4 gb of RAM.
[QUOTE=FalcoLombardi;19392067]2010ers, pssh.
Yeah, Reapaninja is correct, Windows 7 32 bit does not take 4 gb of RAM.[/QUOTE]
Win 7 32-bit can't even use 4GBs.
[QUOTE=Solidjake330;19354285]All of your parts are basically not up to par to play L4D well, but there are some improvements you can make. First, I would downgrade to Windows XP. With your configuration of 1.5GB ram that is NOT enough for Windows 7. With 7 you need AT LEAST 4GB.[/QUOTE]
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Specs: (This isn't STOCK READ IT:)
Budget: As cheap as possible (about $150 max, less would be better)
Mobo: Stock (not sure what it is sorry, I'll edit it when I find out)
Processor: AMD Phenom 2 x4 950 3.2GHZ
Memory: 6 GBs RAM (upgraded from 512 MB)
HDD: 10 TB
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 5870 (Crossfire)
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate (Make sure 64bit)
Sound Card: (Provides the sound DUR DUR)
Power Supply:1000WATT (Provides how much wattage gets to each individual part)
Cooling: (fuck CNET has nothing about this stuff WELL USE WIKIPEDIA)
Monitor: Acer LCD (about 17" i think, perfectly fine with this)
Wow you dont need 10TB Harddrive.
That must cost LOADS that computer, crossfired 5870?? srsly lol
Maybe he is just a troll? Not you op, mrbloog i mean he this is his only post on FP.
mrbloog is just being a dick i think...
They don't even make 10tb hard drives (yet) do they? I thought you had to put them in RAID or something.
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[quote]Monitor: Acer LCD ([b]about 17"[/b] i think, perfectly fine with this) [/quote]
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