QUOTE (lylo @ Mar 20 2005, 10:46 PM)
If I couldnt get AA working on a 1.8ghz with 512mb ram and a 12mb video card it certainly wouldnt look good for you im afraid...
12MB (How embarrassing) GFX card no wonder
You will be able to pay most games mate, I run LOADS of NEW Games on my laptop and that’s well Ok a bit faster than yours with a Athlon XP 2600+ M with 768MB and Radeon 9000-M (64MB)
In my experience all you need it 256MB Min if its onboard GFX chip 512 is required and 64MB Gfx memory is sufficient for almost all games inc HL2, DoW, SW-RC, SW-KOTOR I&II, SW-BF, Halo. I could go on, I will say this some games in particular real time strategy all computers struggle, My friends Athlon 64 3200 was running stuttering A LOT my Athlon XP 3200 walked the distance, just coz it has 1GB of ram as appose to a standard retail machine with 256MB.. COME ON 256??? Dell, HP, Compaq you have no idea how much money I have made by just adding some more RAM, oh one more thing about Retail PCs the HD only have 2MB Cache!!
Save your money build it ya self! If this Code Monkey can do it so can you
I supose only advantage is you get the software for the PC with them and suposrt if you don't mind not having a PC for weeks on end while its being fixed only for same problem to happen down the line.