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Old 06-11-2007, 11:13 PM
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Upgrade question.
I've been out of the gaming loop for two years. My PC was never upgraded as Im a mac guy. Right now I have a Abit IC7-Max 3 using a P4 2.6c (no longer overclocked) 1G or Corsiar ram at stock timings and a ATI 9800 128mb card. THe question is would upgrading to a P4 3.0E (have to stick to a socket 478) and a video card upgrade (to what?) be worth anything for playing MMO's. I plan on upgrading completely in 6 mo and am thinking of this as a stopgap. Opinions??
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Well, thiose specs are certainly fine for playing a game like WoW. However, with the new graphicly intense MMO's coming out, you will have to upgrade your whole PC. It wouldn't be worth it to spend a few hundered just for obselete tech if you are going to upgrade anyway.

If you wanted to upgrade your computer, leave a price range and it will be easy for some tech geeks such as myself to give you some suggestions for high performance:cost machine.
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Good question, i haven't upgraded my rig in ages either I also haven't been playing any PC games, many because I can't find one to tickle my fancy these days. I hear something about how awesome the new intel dual core's are compared to AMD.

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Good question, i haven't upgraded my rig in ages either I also haven't been playing any PC games, many because I can't find one to tickle my fancy these days. I hear something about how awesome the new intel dual core's are compared to AMD.

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Much as it pains me to say it, Intel's Core2 chips are on top at the moment, and look to stay there for the rest of the year.
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I've been out of the gaming loop for two years. My PC was never upgraded as Im a mac guy. Right now I have a Abit IC7-Max 3 using a P4 2.6c (no longer overclocked) 1G or Corsiar ram at stock timings and a ATI 9800 128mb card. THe question is would upgrading to a P4 3.0E (have to stick to a socket 478) and a video card upgrade (to what?) be worth anything for playing MMO's. I plan on upgrading completely in 6 mo and am thinking of this as a stopgap. Opinions??
You should combine your loves and get a mac pro or macbook pro. Toss windows on there, and you'll be able to stay on the same machine for whatever you want to do. I'm getting a new macbook pro, which has the intel core 2 duo chip, room for 4gb RAM (2 comes standard) and a DX10 nvidia 8600m. The mac pro desktops are slow to get decent graphics cards, though, but for nearly all games they are adequate.
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Thats a really good idea Blanco. Im actually looking to buy a Mac book pro as well. It never really occured to me to use it for gaming. I though about the mac desktops but never a laptop. I could alway hook up a 22 in monitor I guess. Hmmm.....
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