I bought a budget computer (emachine T5048) over a year ago for $250 and I want to tinker with it and see what I can get out of it from minor upgrades while spending as little as possible. Sound like a challenge???
Its not like I am trying to play Bioshock, but would like it available for some of the older games. I know it needs more ram, but have been wondering about a budget GPU that will run with the current psu (300 watts).
Also, I have never seen brands like Kingson for Ram (found a gig for $49 after rebate) on this site. I suppose there is a very good reason for that????
Here are the specs.
CPU Intel Pentium 4
Processor Speed 3.06 GHz
Installed Memory 512 MB (pc 3200)
Bus Speed 533 MHz
Cache Size 1 MB
Memory Technology DDR SDRAM
Maximum Memory 2 GB
Number of Installed Processors 1
Maximum Number of Processors 1
System Chipset ATI Radeon Xpress 200
160 GIG HDD
Forgot to mention it has a PCI 1x and PCI 16x slot available
Curious what you might come up with (besides the obvious "throwing it away" )
Not sure if this is the place to post this, but it is my first post, so have mercy.
Thanks for any Help.
Its not like I am trying to play Bioshock, but would like it available for some of the older games. I know it needs more ram, but have been wondering about a budget GPU that will run with the current psu (300 watts).
Also, I have never seen brands like Kingson for Ram (found a gig for $49 after rebate) on this site. I suppose there is a very good reason for that????
Here are the specs.
CPU Intel Pentium 4
Processor Speed 3.06 GHz
Installed Memory 512 MB (pc 3200)
Bus Speed 533 MHz
Cache Size 1 MB
Memory Technology DDR SDRAM
Maximum Memory 2 GB
Number of Installed Processors 1
Maximum Number of Processors 1
System Chipset ATI Radeon Xpress 200
160 GIG HDD
Forgot to mention it has a PCI 1x and PCI 16x slot available
Curious what you might come up with (besides the obvious "throwing it away" )
Not sure if this is the place to post this, but it is my first post, so have mercy.
Thanks for any Help.