I have an old Dell XPS 400. I have upgraded it with a Sapphire HD 4650 and and an 2 gigabytes of ram. I believe the 2.8 ghz Pentium D is my biggest bottleneck currently. Here are the specs:
CPU
Intel Pentium D 820 2.8 Ghz
RAM
2.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 266MHz (4-4-4-12)
Graphics
Dell E151FPp (1024x768@60Hz)
1024MB ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series
Hard Drive
156GB Western Digital WDC WD1600JS-75NCB1 (SATA
I want to lay fairly new games but this rig obviously will only play games from the last few years on fairly low settings and won't play current games at all with playable frame rates.
My idea was to gut the current computer and buy a new motherboard, case, and processor. This is what I came up with.
Rosewill CHALLENGER Black Gaming ATX
ASRock M3A770DE AM3 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 925 Deneb 2.8GHz
That comes out to exactly $200 plus shipping. My question is, does anybody else have and better ideas for me to end up with a usable gaming computer with my $200 budget?
EDIT: I just realized that Processor doesn't come with a cpu cooler. What is the best AM3 processor for gaming that costs $100 or less?
CPU
Intel Pentium D 820 2.8 Ghz
RAM
2.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 266MHz (4-4-4-12)
Graphics
Dell E151FPp (1024x768@60Hz)
1024MB ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series
Hard Drive
156GB Western Digital WDC WD1600JS-75NCB1 (SATA
I want to lay fairly new games but this rig obviously will only play games from the last few years on fairly low settings and won't play current games at all with playable frame rates.
My idea was to gut the current computer and buy a new motherboard, case, and processor. This is what I came up with.
Rosewill CHALLENGER Black Gaming ATX
ASRock M3A770DE AM3 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 925 Deneb 2.8GHz
That comes out to exactly $200 plus shipping. My question is, does anybody else have and better ideas for me to end up with a usable gaming computer with my $200 budget?
EDIT: I just realized that Processor doesn't come with a cpu cooler. What is the best AM3 processor for gaming that costs $100 or less?