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That's going to struggle with any "new" game I'm afraid. If you can afford one, I think now would be a great time to do a few system upgrades, or buy a new one altogether.

 

thanks, it least I know it now from too late. better for me to order the new pc now before skyrim is out.

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You really need more RAM. 4-16 gigs. What ever you can run. Also, you should definitely get a new video card. Nvidia 450 or Radeon HD 5670, 5950, or 6950. Plus a good quad core processor with at least 3.4 ghz on each core. And maybe two hardrives if you can do that. It all depends on your budget though. And I love AMD so all my parts are AMD. Asus AMD Motherboard. AMD video card. AMD processor, and Kingston memory. Kingston Hyper X Blu to be exact. Amazing gaming RAM.

 

But again, it all depends on how much you are willing to spend to get the parts that you need.

 

-Elsarian

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You really need more RAM. 4-16 gigs. What ever you can run. Also, you should definitely get a new video card. Nvidia 450 or Radeon HD 5670, 5950, or 6950. Plus a good quad core processor with at least 3.4 ghz on each core. And maybe two hardrives if you can do that. It all depends on your budget though. And I love AMD so all my parts are AMD. Asus AMD Motherboard. AMD video card. AMD processor, and Kingston memory. Kingston Hyper X Blu to be exact. Amazing gaming RAM.

 

But again, it all depends on how much you are willing to spend to get the parts that you need.

 

-Elsarian

 

He has 4 gigs of RAM. A processor upgrade would be good given his CPU is a bit old, but a lot of games aren't optimized for threading, so make sure the game you want to play is actually going to take full advantage of a multi-core CPU. The graphics card should be fine for awhile longer. I don't see a reason to upgrade graphics cards every year, because you can usually run relatively high settings for a couple of years before they start to show their age. It all depends on how much it's going to bother you if the game experiences a little slow-down every once in awhile. If that's a larger issue, then you'll have to spend more and upgrade often to get a system you're happy with.

 

As for two hard-drives, I'm not sure I really see the point in that. If you go for an SSD hard drive, that would make definitely make a difference, but they're expensive and putting more money into a graphics or CPU upgrade would likely provide greater benefit for games.

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