Upgrading a basic system for gaming needs.

[Watlinguk]

Hi guys/Girls

Me and the girlfriend bought a really cheap pc the other night and were wanting to spend a small amount of money on it to enable it to play games.

Firstly the games the missus wants to play are world of warcraft, counter strike source and sim3, currently the machine we have can only handle world of warcraft on low settings.

So what im wanting is some really cheap components but effective ones, to enable us to play these games hopefully on high settings.

Spec:

Asus AsRock Mobo - conroe1333-d667
Intel Pentium E2180 Dual Core
3GB - DDR2 Ram
Nvidia Geforce 210 (gt218)
500GB HDD
Windows 7 32bit


So if you could spec me some really cheap but effective parts to massively boost this system so we can enjoy games together i would be more than appreciative

Apologies if i have missed any vital infomation.

Kind Regards

 

[Watlinguk]

dependent on how much of a boost in performance i would pay to get really but wouldn't really want to exceed 100ish

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[Watlinguk]

thanks for the great replys guys. Well we purchased the pc along with a LED 22inch HD monitor for £50, so im just trying to through something in there to update it a bit as i know its really dull , but hopefully not hopeless!

The PSU she has is a no branded one but it is 650 watt, as he upgraded this before he sold it. So that should handle some decent components.

I'm just really looking for the best possible solutions for giving this a great boost with out ripping the whole thing apart.

Kind Regards