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by Dranzer06 Jul 25, 2007 4:39AM PDT

i have AMD athlon xp 2600+,asus A7V400MX,256 MB RAM,Nvidia geforce fx 5200 graphics Cards shoud i upgrade my RAM to 2 GB or get a new system
new system config
ADM athlon 64 X2 3600+,Asus M2N MX,1 GB RAM

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For what kind of use?
by jackson dougless Jul 25, 2007 4:45AM PDT

What do you use this system for?

If it's things like web browsing, email, maybe typing a letter... Typical desktop sorts of things, I'd just increase the RAM to about 1GB.

If you do a lot of gaming, or maybe high end video or photo editing type things... Then it might be worth getting the new system.

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i want to play games + work
by Dranzer06 Jul 25, 2007 11:05PM PDT

i want play games like counter-strike,warcraft III,fifa 07 and work in photoshop and 3ds max

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i also
by Dranzer06 Jul 25, 2007 11:14PM PDT

i also want run windows vista

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Re: upgrading
by Kees Bakker Jul 25, 2007 11:18PM PDT

I think adding memory to 1 Gb might be sufficient, 2 Gb will surely do. No need to buy a whole new PC for this.

Are you sure all your applications and games are Vista compatible? You wouldn't like to go back to XP if things didn't work, I assume.

Kees

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Thank you
by Dranzer06 Jul 26, 2007 3:13AM PDT

thank you
i dont know all my games and programs are vista compatible
shoud i use vista or xp

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