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sure it can run C&C3! If you set all details and settings to minimum it probably will. Then it will look if not the same, probably much worse than C&C2 or even 1! Then why all this bother to play C&C3 anyway? Don't understand people that want to play new games with old VGAs at minimum settings. An older game at higher settings will look better. So if you want to play a new game, get a new PC to really enjoy it. Unfortunately that is the painful truth.
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no way it can look worse than command and conquer 2. That game was 2D.


great game though, I was always borrowing it from my friends...
 
boot into the BIOS and see what it tells you the CPU is. If you do indeed have a 1.8Ghz Celeron, then the prospect of running command and conquer 3 just got a lot brighter.
 
its a 1.3 celeron processor i never said i had a 1.8

i want to toss out the 1.3 celeron that in here and replace it with another but i dont know which one will be compatiable

please read t he first page lol
 
I did read the first page. I also read this, written by you and addressed to me:
i think 1800 is correct he took out the P4 to sell and popped in a crappy celeron
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Are you feeling okay?

noo lol 1800 is the name of the guy who commented above that im sorry for the confusion

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what he means is that this computer probably had a P4 in it and someone took it out and put a celeron in it
 
OMFG ! my friend came over gave me a geforce 2 agp lol and a 9800 pro agp and a 500 watt PSU lol

its late now and i gotta get some rest i will be gone all week next weekend i will post what happens im going to try to get my hands on this

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116035

and hope it runs on this and this GPU

GIGABYTE GV-N76G256D-RH GeForce 7600GS 256MB GDDR2 AGP 4X/8X RoHS Compliant Video Card - Retail 99 bucks 🙂
 
I have a Intel 845 chipset computer with agp 4x. I have a geforce 6600GT, 1gb of ram and a 2.4ghz P4 400mghz fbs. It runs games decently on low settings. I'm currently playing farcry and oblivion. Farcry is perfectly smooth even out door as long as i keep everything to low. Oblivion on the other hand is little choppy out doors. If you can handle the lag, i think the upgrades are worth it. I don't think AGP 4x will bottle neck a midrange gfx card from the last generation ie x16xx or 76xx.
 
Better reread this tread as I already told you the power supply is propriatery both in size and wiring. I found out the hard way when the local shop sold me a 450 watt and told me it would work. Fried the motherboard a friend googled it after and it's wired differnt.
 
Don't buy the processor, PM me your address and I'll send you a 2.4 P4 I got on a burnt out board. I think you got a decent deal with the XP and a running system. Does it have an AGP slot? And you said you had the ram layin around? I might even have an ol' 9600 pro sittin round here somewhere if you really wanted to stretch that thing. My buddy ran WoW on a 733 Celeron with a PCI Radeon 9250. Sometimes it was like a slideshow, but he didn't really care lol.
 
Good luck I just dug up that power supply and it's only got 12v@5A, 12.8v@7.5A. Better read the label on your's that's why I was trying to up grade.
 
Apparantly the D300 comes in two flavors: P4 and Celeron. The P4 got the i845 chipset, while the Celeron got the i815 chipset. This was a necessary evil for the time period: for almost 2 years, there was no Celeron version of the Pentium 4. In August 2002, Intel eventually made a Netburst Celeron based on the older Williamette core in 1.7, 1.8, and (maybe) 1.9GHz flavors. At 2.0GHz and above the Celeron transitioned onto the newer Northwood core that initially debuated in January 2002. With a product life of only 10 months, the Tualatin Celeron was really just a stop-gap to compete with the AMD Duron until the debut of the Netburst Celeron.
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8O youre scary joe
Does he say this stuff from memory?
 
Some of you guys are not the nicest. Instead of making the OP feel bad about their purchase, why not try and help them accomplish (fully or partially) their goals set out for this machine. It's kinda fun makin older stuff run decent.
 
im using the PC now does everything except play games lol looks like 16 mb of video memory lol
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you could build a rig to play Halflife, Counterstrike, and Quake II.

Great games... although I have only played Halflife and Quake 2.

Quake 2 was the first real video game that I played... I was like 9 :)
Civilization 2 is also SWEET!Dude, Quake II is like the coolest game ever. That was prob the 1st video game I got into when I was about the same age. In fact, I just installed it a few months ago and there were still multi player servers up. 😛

Back on topic- I agree with the other posters. Keep the XP disc, and craigslist the rest. You could maybe get $20 - $50.
 
wow thanks coldmast what would i do without you :roll:


look i know the computer is old and crappy thats the point im trying to get it to run some new games thats all i dont know why some people have to be dicks


i already have a semi decent computer at home this computer is so i can play games at my dad's house he isnt into computers and doesnt have one

i will be working on this computer on the weekends and i will be trying to get it to run games i want

now if that doesnt work i will turn it into a unreal tornament 2004 gaming machine 🙂
 
OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista (32-bit; 64-bit versions of Vista are not supported)

CPU: 2.0GHz or high, or AMD equivalent, Vista - 2.2 GHZ

RAM: 512 MB or more, Vista - 1GB RAM or more

Disk Drive: 8x or faster DVD drive for retail SKUs, not required for digitally downloaded version

Hard Drive: 6.0 GB or more of free space

Video: GeForce4, ATI Radeon 8500 or greater (ATI Radeon 9200 and 9250 PCI, NVIDIA Geforce 4 MX cards not supported.). Windows Vista - NVIDIA GeForce 6100 or ATI Radeon 9500 or greater. Labtop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported.

Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card

Network, Internet Multiplayer: 2 players (no voice support) – 56 Kbps Internet connection; 2-8 players (with voice transmission) – Broadband-class connection
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http://www.commandandconquer.com/game_details/faqs/default.aspx#faq3


caught me 8O I'll read through your Frankenstein Machine Specs

Intel Celeron 1.3GHz SOCKET 486
256MB DDR Memory PC 133MHZ?
20GB IDE Hard Drive
CD-ROM {NEED a least 8x DVD ROM}
10/100 LAN Ethernet
4 USB Ports
Floppy Drive
Windows XP Professional genuine disc ! Smile
PSU unit seems to be 250 watts.....

1 AGP 4x with 3pci slots
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can you pull a the NUMBER of that motherboard?
you need to check the max ram it allows, if it allows 1GB
also need to check it's power consumption

What is the speed of ram?

anyhoo :cry:
yes you should be able to run C&C3 once the upgrades stated go into the machine.

:wink: :roll:

The CROW tasted good thank you :)
 
those specs are not the same specs in my PC this PC is factory refurbished and some where down the line the motherboard was replaced

its socket 478 BIOS says it is when i boot up

also it has a AGP SLOT and 3 PCI slots

if you look back in this thread you will see that

i also believe that once it had a pentium 4 processor inside of it and was taken out and replaced with the celeron cuase on the case it says Pentium 4 inside
 
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