Upgrade graphics or not

fman · 6 Feb 2011 at 12:38

Hi guys, i'm looking for some advice about my sons pc.
He mostly plays world of warcraft, and has the graphics on lowest settings to get it to run smoothly, some other game he plays wont run at all, and he has to use my pc to play it.
My question is, would upgrading the graphics card make any significant difference, or would i be better looking into getting a new tower.

Specs are,

AMD Sempron 2800+ 1.60 ghz
1.5gb ram
radeon 9250 graphics card (think its AGP)
winfast 760 GXK8MC Motherboard

Regards

fman · 6 Feb 2011 at 12:52

thanks guys,
Probably about £500 budget, i probably could use the case and i have a copy of windows vista that i could use, i'll have a look at the dvd drive to see what type it is.

Regards

fman · 6 Feb 2011 at 15:22

thanks guys for all your input, some great options there, i'll have a look through your suggestions and maybe order it today.
thanks again for your time

regards

fman · 6 Feb 2011 at 15:46

hi again guys,
i wonder if you could recommend some other memory as the one you have listed is not in stock.

regards

fman · 6 Feb 2011 at 16:51

Thanks

fman · 11 Feb 2011 at 21:10

Thanks for all your help guys, everything up and running sweet, my son is well pleased.
I have another query about my own pc, my other son uses it for playing world of warcraft also, and it has coped well, but recently the screen would go blank or the scene showing at the time would freeze and the sound would repeat, then needs restarting.
Not sure what would cause this, but was thinking if anything would need replaced, and if so maybe upgraded.

mobo is MSI K9AG Neo2-Digital
Graphics radeon x1950 pro
cpu AMD athlon 64 X2 dual core 5000+ 2.6 ghz
2gb ram
vista 32 bit
power supply blue storm 2

Any advice appreciated

Regards