What Needs Improved On my soon to be Gaming pc

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I have acquired an ok pc from some stuff I received from a relative. There were many hard drives, pci cards, and other randoms. I pieced together a pc out of a HP PC. I want to know more about upgrading my hardware and how good what i have is.
Current specs
Processor: AMD athlon 64 x2 dual core processor 4600+ 2.4 GHz
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 6150 Le
Drives: 1.36TB sata drive, 74.5GB Firewire drive
RAM: 2gb-I will get more soon
mobo: HP A8M2N-LA http://
 
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Those games are not very demanding by current standards but the laptop is far superior to the Athlon based desktop and the HD 2400 is nowhere the equal of a current laptops graphics either.
I'm not saying the desktop will NOT play those games (but check their websites for minimum requirements), just don't expect great performance.
Frankly I'd grab something like a HD7750 for it and take this as an opportunity to play some of those great, older games you can find on E-bay or in the charity (thrift) shops and have a ball with them, especially if it's running under XP or Win98, that system will run those older titles like a champion.
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Sorry to sound harsh but apart from the drives there's nothing else to salvage if you want to game on it-unless you want to play some of the very, very many older PC games out there, for current titles, the CPU is too weak and the motherboard will not allow any useful upgrade.
 
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sjh01

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I have a laptop, 4gb ram, 500gb drive, intel i3, it runs most games like gmod, fs2013, ror, minecraft, and some other little things great. How far away are the specs besides the ram is the desktop from the laptop? Im not wanting any current hd fancy games, just stuff like i listed. If i put a ATI radeon hd 2400 in it would it play some of those games a little better?
 
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Those games are not very demanding by current standards but the laptop is far superior to the Athlon based desktop and the HD 2400 is nowhere the equal of a current laptops graphics either.
I'm not saying the desktop will NOT play those games (but check their websites for minimum requirements), just don't expect great performance.
Frankly I'd grab something like a HD7750 for it and take this as an opportunity to play some of those great, older games you can find on E-bay or in the charity (thrift) shops and have a ball with them, especially if it's running under XP or Win98, that system will run those older titles like a champion.
 
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