Upgrading to play war thunder

[Archangel1991]

My friend is upgrading his pc to play war thunder, sadly he has a very old rig, and is trying to buy the components listed as recommended sys req!

Game debate recommends a Core 2 duo E6600, and a GeForce GTX 460!

My friends current specs are

Pentium 531 HT 3.00 GHz
Radeon HD 4350 (must be the worst card i have seen)
2 Gb Ram
Motherboard G41C Biostar
Power supply very weak, probably need to obtain a 450W for the GTX 460!

Is it even possible to upgrade his rig to the specs given by game debate?
Im new to these forums, forgive me if i made mistakes!
Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[vagrancyx]

I couldn't find the biostar board you mentioned although there is an ASRock board that is G41C which supports Core 2 Quad. If he can upgrade to a Core 2 Quad on his board, I'd suggest that, 4GB RAM, and a new PSU.

Used Q6600's can be found on ebay for around $50-60

 

[Archangel1991]

I couldn't find the biostar board you mentioned although there is an ASRock board that is G41C which supports Core 2 Quad. If he can upgrade to a Core 2 Quad on his board, I'd suggest that, 4GB RAM, and a new PSU.

Used Q6600's can be found on ebay for around $50-60

Thanks for the reply! Do you know a good alternative for the geforce GTX460, somebody told me its pretty old and that it consumes much power?

 

[vagrancyx]

I'm not sure of the pricing on the GTX460, but you can look into the 640-740's which are around $75-130.

i.e.

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-video-card-gt7402gd3csm

If you double check on the motherboard you can see how far of a Core 2 Quad you can get as the q6600 is the middle range..and you can go up to a q9900 or whatever.

Also helps to know what type of budget we're working with here. Him upgrading to 4GB or RAM at the minimum is also a must.

 

[Archangel1991]

I'm not sure of the pricing on the GTX460, but you can look into the 640-740's which are around $75-130.

i.e.

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-video-card-gt7402gd3csm

If you double check on the motherboard you can see how far of a Core 2 Quad you can get as the q6600 is the middle range..and you can go up to a q9900 or whatever.

Also helps to know what type of budget we're working with here. Him upgrading to 4GB or RAM at the minimum is also a must.

So he needs at least 4gb ram? thanks for the advice, i thought about the gforce 8800 GT could run war thunder on medium, what do you think?

 

[vagrancyx]

I'm not familiar with that game, but you might want to just look at an upgrade that is a bit more modern...again I don't know what budget constraints you're working with.