Help Me Make My PC FAST!!!!

[Elbow]

Ok, I have a Dell 2300 or something, it has a Celeron 1.8ghz, 128mb ram, 80gb hd, sound blaster card, stock video card, etc.

I want to play some flying games, like Flight Simulator 2000, or something like a sim. My computer though is slow as hell the screen is choppy like move pause move pause, you get the point.

If I upgrade to a better video card, and add more ram, would that be good? Or is the celeron just crap for it? Any input on any of it greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Simon

[Danny]

128mb of ram? u can barley start windows with that :D

between ram and graphics card ur gonna spend more than the system is worth. Maybe find a used system somewhere?

But ram will make a world of difference. 128 is pathetic, 512 is the bare minimum these days for just running the operating system.

Whats ur upgrading budget? I mean that proc with 1gb ram and a old decent card might run FS2000 on low settings.

[Elbow]

can spend like $200 maybe more, ebay is my friend for buying anything so....

[DemonEyez]

best way to upgrade

go to fry's

get the amd Athlong 64 3000+ with ECS motherboard for 100

Get this video card
http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=190818

and get this ram

http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StaplesProductDisplay?zipCode=30022&jspStoreDir=Staples&catalogId=10051&productId=100196&cmArea=SEARCH&errorUrl=zipcode&krypto=mfxq1nTSMWh0shUQOLdqejr6zGQ2Y8NL&prodCatType=1&ts=1149308973466&langId=-1&storeId=10001&ddkey=StaplesZipCodeAdd

Your HD should work with the mobo as well as ur case, keyboard, dvd, cd etc etc. You may need a new powersupply but those can be like 30-50 more only.

Enjoy

[ReCkLe5s]

find the the nearest high rise and drop it! sorry bud its a celeron. thats about as fast as its gonna get..

[Elbow]

well update got a geforce 4000 video card, works pretty good i can play games now without it being so choppy, going to get some ram tommorow, hopefully it will be enought to let me play some. im not getting new games, i have Formula One 2000, Super Hornet, Orbiter, Indy Car Series, and going to try and find FS2K, all the ones I have run fast right now on high settings. The F1 game slows a tad at the start of a race I guess because of all the other cars and stuff. I know Celeron sucks.

[DemonEyez]

if you followed what i said you'd be within ur 200 budget and have a pretty dang fast comp

[4dmin]

512mb ram + new video card will do the trick... you can do the upgrade for under 200$ just shop around:

www.tigerdirect.com and www.pricewatch.com

[speedminded]

The video card isn't onboard is it?

I found memory for my old 1.0 Duron overclocked to 1.3ghz on eBay several years ago, two 512MB sticks for less than $50 each new....Using Windows 2000 Pro I could restart and load all processes in 11 seconds flat.

[Danny]

The video card isn't onboard is it?

I found memory for my old 1.0 Duron overclocked to 1.3ghz on eBay several years ago, two 512MB sticks for less than $50 each new....Using Windows 2000 Pro I could restart and load all processes in 11 seconds flat.


I miss having a fast rebooting system lol...

[Danny]

was just thinking.. couple years ago i bought a 1.7 celeron from Admin. I put a graphics card in it and 768mb of ram. and it ran FS2000 decently... Cant remeber what card, but that post by DemonEYez is a good post. I would go that route and see what happends.

I might have part of my rig for sale soon :D upgrading to 1900XT and AMD X2 4200 and some other goodies. So my 64 3200 adn 850XT is goin to be wasting space, maybe.

[Elbow]

yeah im gonna go buy some memory today and see what happens. i was using onboard video, and now have the pci geforce card

[Danny]

cool
onboard anything sucks (except for networking lol)

you should buy flight simulator 2004, i have it... just i dont know anyone else with it.. i like to fly :D

[Elbow]

idk if my system would run it lol. i love sims download orbiter its free lol

http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/download.html#requirements