Realisitcally can I game on this spec?

Prophet

Prophet

Prophet

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I'd like to start playing a few games again and for the time being would like to use my HTPC as my other PC died a while ago and I've not got the funds to replace it. The spec is as follows..

AMD 64 X2 5200+ CPU
2GB RAM
Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H AMD 780G Micro-ATX Motherboard.
Vista Home 64bit
Onboard ATI HD3200 Graphics card.

Not looking for max settings but decent smooth game play would be nice even at lower settings :)
 
id say your cpu is fine. but your 2gb ram with vista is going to hold you back as is your graphics card.. though at low settings you might just get through the odd game or two.
 
It will game fine. The HD3200 is actually really, really strong for a on board solution. The cool thing about that board is it uses the hybrid crossfire so really if you wanted to make that a multi purpose machine for fairly cheap you could add a 4650 or 4870 which are great little cards and would get a boost from the hybrid xfire.

If you bumped the ram to 4 gigs and got one of those cards you really wouldn't need to buy a new machine and could do it for a great price. I mention the ram because of the overhead the 64 bit vista home uses as Blackhawk47 said. If you decide to game more you have a few cheap options for upgrading that would make your game time better:)
 
I'm going to upgrade the RAM to 4GB once I've checked what RAM its currently using. Can't remember lol. The overheads are crap, I agree.

The 4870 sounds like a good route to take as I could use it later in a gaming PC :)

Do I need to do anything to enable the crossfire or is it a hardwired thing?
 
got a 780g board myself with a 4200+ @ 2.7gz oc 4 gb of ram

It plays Cod 4, WarO, eve, Cs All with playable fps ie 60+

hybrid crossfire only work with 3450/3470 & will offer a 30% boost fps wise ingame
Also 780g itself overclocks very well and it possible to increase performance by 10/15%
 
Update. Loaded Steam and downloaded CS:S. Played that perfectly :)

Installed Crysis, all on low setting, 800X600 etc and it played like a dog :(

I'm ordering more RAM tomorrow but the 4870 will have to wait. Plus the PC is nearly silent so a 4870 would ruin things a bit.
 
I was hoping it would be playable not beautiful :)

The graphics resembled a mid 80's game but it still used nearly 1GB RAM lol.
 
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