Which part should I upgrade

[sconr002]

Hello,
I have a dell dimension 4550 that is running really slow on counter strike, I also have a pentium 4 processor 400mhz, 384 of RAM , and a geforce 660 256mb graphics card, could anyone help me upgrade my computer so counter strike will run better, on a side note it takes forever to load up, and alt , tab....also have XP and I deleted everything I could off the hard drive

 

[rolli59]

In your case it would be best to start looking at a new computer. Your system is not compatible with the newest technology and even with upgrades it will still be slow.

 

[simon12]

+1 unless you can get a good AGP card cheap on Ebay or something its time for a new build, you could keep you DVD drive.

 

[mcnumpty23]

it takes forever to load because you only have 384mb of ram--upgrade that definately--to at least 512mb but 1gb would be the minimum i would go for

your pentium 4 shouldnt be 400mhz--it should be 2.66ghz so its probably power saving when you are looking at the cpu speed

your graphics card i imagine will be agp so about the best card would be the 7800GS, or the X850XT PE

 

[DXRick]

I would first upgrade to 1GB RAM. I played it with no probs on a P4 3.0 with 2GB RAM and an X800 XT.