Dell Dimension 3000 upgrade (directX9)

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Last response: February 25, 2012 5:16 PM in Graphics & Displays

Marshall63

February 25, 2012 5:07:46 PM

I have a little bit of a dilemma. A friend of mine has a Dell Dimension3000 which has an Intel Celeron D 330 @ 2.66GHZ and 1GB of DDR RAM. He has no dedicated graphics card. I need to find one that will fit with this computer.

Does this seem OK?

http://www.algogo.com/store/products/256MB-NVidia-Gefor...

Here are the specs( RAM=1GB)

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim3000/e...

Would he need a new PSU?

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Marshall63

February 25, 2012 5:09:18 PM

He wants it to be able to play games like Company of Heroes. The OS is Windows XP 32bit Home SP3.

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jeffredo

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February 25, 2012 5:11:49 PM

He has no PCI-E slot and the bus width on PCI isn't sufficient for gaming beyond something like Diablo II. Not to mention the Celeron is a very weak CPU. He needs a new PC if that's his plan.

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Marshall63

February 25, 2012 5:15:04 PM

jeffredo said:

He has no PCI-E slot and the bus width on PCI isn't sufficient for gaming beyond something like Diablo II. Not to mention the Celeron is a very weak CPU. He needs a new PC if that's his plan.

This isn't PCI-E.

http://www.algogo.com/store/products/256MB-NVidia-Gefor...

He only wants to play CoH. Would it work?

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Marshall63

February 25, 2012 5:16:49 PM

I also have a Pentium 4 @ 3ghz that I just purchased for him.

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