Help Muh Do a Cheap Upgrade?

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simon741

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My friend has an old dell with a 2.4ghz p4, a mx420, and 256mb of ram. Like all noobs, he goes and picks up some demanding game (gh3) and figues out he cant play it on his suck ass computer. For under $75 is there something we could upgrade to make it plays games atleast on low-med settings? Thanks
 
The first thing I would do is figure out what kind of RAM that thing takes and find some used RAM on the forums to get it up to 1 gig.

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Nevermind. If by GH3, you mean guitar hero 3, then he should have read the system specs. That system will not run it without expensive upgrades (or potentially not at all):
PC MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

Operating System: Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista
CPU Processor: Intel Pentium D (Dual Core) 2.8GHZ or AMD Athlon 64 3500+
Memory: XP - 1 GB RAM, Vista – 2GB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 5.1 GB + 1GB Swap File
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
Video Card: 3D Hardware Accelerator Card Required – 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 128 MB Video Memory
Video Card (ATI): Radeon X800
Video Card (Nvidia): Geforce 7600
Media Required: 4X DVD-ROM drive
Windows XP/Vista compatible mouse and keyboard with latest drivers
Guitar Hero 3 Official PC Guitar Controller
 
You're not giving us enough info. Make of the Dell (Dimension, Optiplex, etc.. etc...) Model (4500, B110, E520, etc etc...) operating system (Me, 2000, Xp) Chipset (use cpuz).
 
Minimum for intel is a dual core? Hmm... It might run on a P4 2.4.

I'd suggest going for another gig of memory, and a nice AGP video card like a 7600/X1650, you should be able to get both used for around that price. It would probably play it.
 
Tell your friend to return the game. From looking at the system requirements for GH3, he basically has to buy a new PC to run it.

Though if he plans on playing other games as well, check out the For Sale and For trade forum for good prices on DDR RAM. Try to get the amount of RAM in your fdz system up to 1GB of RAM. Though 768 is good enough if you can't get 1GB.

While you're there as well, try to find a Radeon 9800Pro or equivalent or faster for around $40.
 
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