PCI Cards.

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Would a standard PCI slot work for this game.

Even if it does not, I am still getting a motherboard with an AGP extension.

pci cards work, as long as you get something at or above the minimum requirements.
better off to get a new motherboard though. consider one with a pci-express rather than agp, if possible.

I would agree on the pci-express, except it's performance is still below the AGP factor (they haven't even used the entire AGP bandwidth yet). And PCI-Express still is suffering from a higher expense (but I have seen considerable drop though). I guess it is a personal decision... but I would wait till everyone adopts the PCI-Express form (instead of just intel) and they have a firmware standard worked out.


Lansing Kai Don


P.S. But like I mentioned, it's really a personal decision since most of us only buy or upgrade our computers once a year or so.

I agree with Lansing, AGP is still incredibly good, my sapphire radeon 9600 xt 256 MB is incredible, it really depends on your budget, if you can afford PCI-Express with an extreme video card it is well worth it, but AGP is still expanding 8x / 8xPro.

another problem if you have a love for AMD (i do) the only motherboard is based on the nforce4 which is 64 bit 939 (i think) socket which means a new processor cost added to the MB and video card

if you are getting a new motherboard make sure the present processor will work with it (if intel it probably will)

agp will do anything you want a game to do for several years to come so it is mostly a pocketbook/personal preference choice not a performance choice

Would it be too hard to offer suggestions for my specs..

I will update them once I am home.

Proccessor: Intel Celeron 1.8 mhz
512 MB RAM
MOTHERBOARD: Intel chipset (#####) No AGP
64 MB Video card ("extreme graphics")
good enough sound card

^^

intel extreme graphics is not a video card but a small graphics chip on the motherboard

you can buy a pci (NOT PCI-EXPRESS) video card for improvement

or a new motherboard with AGP for a bigger improvement (and AGP video card)

or a pci express motherboard along with a video card (PCI EXPRESS) to go with that

if the last one you are spending enough so a budget gaming machine with all new parts and warranty should be looked at

Yes it will. But Since you are getting a new mobo you might do better with a new Bare bones sys. It might prove to be cheaper and give you better all over preformance.

I agree with Lovitar. Check into it.

This sounds very similar to my friends system (it was an emachine).... this is what we did. Keep the processor for now (it will do fine if the most graphical intensive game your playing is GW) and replace the MB with a more quality higher performance board (ASUS is my recommendation... I know there are others.... it is an ASUS thing). This will run you maybe 50-70 dollars depending on how patient you are. Definitely pick up an AGP card (or PCI-Xpress) and you DON'T have to pick up an expensive one (keep this a minor upgrade)... meaning buy a 50-100 dollar card. If you play your cards right, you can get a system that will run great w/o a major revision for less than 100 dollars. The ONLY problem is if that RAM is SDRAM not DDR, then you will either have to buy an older mobo board... or purchase DDR-RAM (which quality RAM will run you another 50-70). Hope I helped.

Lansing Kai Don

Yea, it is dance dance ram.
(Seriously, Yes, DDR-RAM)

I would suggest having a 128 MB vid card at least, and upgrading the processor if you can, Celeron's were never really made to handle high-capacity games, mostly designed for word processing etc. (office use)
The ram is fine, but the agp is where it's going to affect you the most... It might clip or lag once in a while, especially if it's an onboard card