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XT · June 18th, 2002, 06:22 PM

Hi all.

Right now the best machine in my house, my main machine is a paltry 333 mhz AMD K6- 2 Overclocked to 380mhz. The only saving grace is the Geforce 2 Video card and 256 megs of ram.

I dont have alot of cash to spend, nor am I what you would consider a gamer. I play and enjoy Need for speed 3 which runs fantastic on this system and a few other games, most which run fine on this machine. Most of what it and a new machine would be used for is applications , hardly any photoshop, mostly just things like office and surfing the web, mp3's

The problem comes down to this, I just recieved Return to castle wolfenstein from my wife for fathers day. I had been playing the demo and became hooked. I had to run it at almost the bottom of the line settings to even get it to play. I really like this game and along with wanting to play it the way it was meant to be, I really REALLY need a new system. As i said, I am unemployed and money is very tight, but i found this at a local shop. Do you think this would play wolf nicely and be a good all around computer for what i need it to do and the ocassional game? For now I would move all my cards and drives to this system.

AMD Duron 1.0GHz Processor, 192K Cache, Soket A, PGA-462, 200MHz FSB

ECS K7S5A 500-1.5GHZ UATA/100 ATX Motherboard

E-Case ATX Mid Tower Case, 300Watt, 8 Drive Bays

With My Geforce 2 PCI, Old 10 Gig HDD, 256 meg PC 100 ram, 56k Modem ISA, SMC 10/100 NIC PCI and SB PCI 64 would this be good enough?? I didnt see the board but i need a isa slot for my modem, or im going to have to get a pci one.

Sorry the post was so long! Thanks for any help

EDIT the above 3 things, MB, CPU, case will cost about $150 with tax, which is what i can afford.

June 18th, 2002, 06:22 PM	#1 (permalink)
XT Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: 'Burbs of Buffalo NY Posts: 185	Building a new system. <help me> Hi all. Right now the best machine in my house, my main machine is a paltry 333 mhz AMD K6- 2 Overclocked to 380mhz. The only saving grace is the Geforce 2 Video card and 256 megs of ram. I dont have alot of cash to spend, nor am I what you would consider a gamer. I play and enjoy Need for speed 3 which runs fantastic on this system and a few other games, most which run fine on this machine. Most of what it and a new machine would be used for is applications , hardly any photoshop, mostly just things like office and surfing the web, mp3's The problem comes down to this, I just recieved Return to castle wolfenstein from my wife for fathers day. I had been playing the demo and became hooked. I had to run it at almost the bottom of the line settings to even get it to play. I really like this game and along with wanting to play it the way it was meant to be, I really REALLY need a new system. As i said, I am unemployed and money is very tight, but i found this at a local shop. Do you think this would play wolf nicely and be a good all around computer for what i need it to do and the ocassional game? For now I would move all my cards and drives to this system. AMD Duron 1.0GHz Processor, 192K Cache, Soket A, PGA-462, 200MHz FSB ECS K7S5A 500-1.5GHZ UATA/100 ATX Motherboard E-Case ATX Mid Tower Case, 300Watt, 8 Drive Bays With My Geforce 2 PCI, Old 10 Gig HDD, 256 meg PC 100 ram, 56k Modem ISA, SMC 10/100 NIC PCI and SB PCI 64 would this be good enough?? I didnt see the board but i need a isa slot for my modem, or im going to have to get a pci one. Sorry the post was so long! Thanks for any help EDIT the above 3 things, MB, CPU, case will cost about $150 with tax, which is what i can afford. Last edited by XT : June 18th, 2002 at 06:27 PM.