Ok, I was a huge fan of Halflife1 when it came out and im pretty excited over 2 coming out pretty soon, only thing is, I want a system that will be able to run it decently.
Goal:
to Run Half-life 2 and CS:Source at Full Details@1024x768(dont care about AA/AF) at an absolute Minimum of 30 FPS, anything higher than that I Dont care.
This has to be done while spending the least amount of money as possible, Don't care about upgradeability
Current System(that's just not cutting it)
CPU: AthlonXP 2000+ (palmino core)
GPU: Radeon 9500np
RAM: 1x512mb pc2100 cheap ram
mobo: Asus a7v266-c
So? How cheap can we do this? upgrade the cpu and gpu? put more ram in? start over with a new mobo? reuse some old hardware? What do you guys think(help a poor college student out)?
Goal:
to Run Half-life 2 and CS:Source at Full Details@1024x768(dont care about AA/AF) at an absolute Minimum of 30 FPS, anything higher than that I Dont care.
This has to be done while spending the least amount of money as possible, Don't care about upgradeability
Current System(that's just not cutting it)
CPU: AthlonXP 2000+ (palmino core)
GPU: Radeon 9500np
RAM: 1x512mb pc2100 cheap ram
mobo: Asus a7v266-c
So? How cheap can we do this? upgrade the cpu and gpu? put more ram in? start over with a new mobo? reuse some old hardware? What do you guys think(help a poor college student out)?