Hi everyone,
I have been searching for the best possible option but to be honest it's all getting a bit too confusing for me. This is not my main computer, but I intend to try and recover this PC that I previously used until maybe 2008. Maybe the most demanding game I remember playing in it was GTA San Andreas!
It's missing a graphics card and a disk drive, my ATI Radeon 9600 Pro is not working at all anymore and the disk drive that it had was IDE anyway, so I'm trying to upgrade the PC with the best possible graphics card (without asking too much of the CPU) and a "new" SATA disk drive. By asking too much I mean respecting the CPU's limitations, no overclocking please.
Sorry for not knowing more about the CPU, I only know it's an AMD Sempron, Socket 754. If I had to try and guess, I would say maybe the 2800...
Other specs:
1,5GB DDR 1 Kingston RAM (intend to upgrade to at least 2GB, maybe 3GB if it's truly worth it)
Motherboard Asus K8V-X
Power Supply with 425W Max.
I got a Pentium III and recovered it, installed Windows 98 SE and equipped it with all the games I ever played fom the DOS era until 2000, so I would love to recover my Pentium IV equivalent to continue my gaming history from 2000 to maybe 2006/7, making it my Windows XP machine.
Because I actually used this computer as a kid I would really like to respect it's overall configuration, and improve it only through the graphics card and the new disk.
Thanks for all your input and help!
I have been searching for the best possible option but to be honest it's all getting a bit too confusing for me. This is not my main computer, but I intend to try and recover this PC that I previously used until maybe 2008. Maybe the most demanding game I remember playing in it was GTA San Andreas!
It's missing a graphics card and a disk drive, my ATI Radeon 9600 Pro is not working at all anymore and the disk drive that it had was IDE anyway, so I'm trying to upgrade the PC with the best possible graphics card (without asking too much of the CPU) and a "new" SATA disk drive. By asking too much I mean respecting the CPU's limitations, no overclocking please.
Sorry for not knowing more about the CPU, I only know it's an AMD Sempron, Socket 754. If I had to try and guess, I would say maybe the 2800...
Other specs:
1,5GB DDR 1 Kingston RAM (intend to upgrade to at least 2GB, maybe 3GB if it's truly worth it)
Motherboard Asus K8V-X
Power Supply with 425W Max.
I got a Pentium III and recovered it, installed Windows 98 SE and equipped it with all the games I ever played fom the DOS era until 2000, so I would love to recover my Pentium IV equivalent to continue my gaming history from 2000 to maybe 2006/7, making it my Windows XP machine.
Because I actually used this computer as a kid I would really like to respect it's overall configuration, and improve it only through the graphics card and the new disk.
Thanks for all your input and help!
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