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Question posted by geminiuk64 on January 3rd, 2013

Is This Any Good For Gaming As I Got One But Dont Know If I Shoud Try It Or Not

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Answer #1: Posted by tintinb on January 4th, 2013 12:39 PM

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The most critical hardware parts that you have to consider if you wish to have a good gaming personal computer are the Central Processing Unit (CPU), Graphics Card and Random Access Memory (RAM). These are the features that you should consider.

CPU - Choose the Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 Processor since this is the maximum capacity of processor available for this machine.

Graphics Card - Although Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3000 or ATI Radeon X1300 Pro (256MB DH) PCIe Graphics are good for average graphics uses, you should consider upgrading this part. This machine has a PCI Express x16 slot. You can purchase graphics cards from Amazon at:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_17?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=graphics+card+pci+express+x16&sprefix=graphics+card+pci%2Celectronics%2C318

RAM - You should also upgrade the Random Access Memory into 4 Gigabytes. You can purchase RAM here:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=ram&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Aram

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