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Trade Mule
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Posted - 2005.12.28 20:36:00 -
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I've got two computers; one very new and one very old. I'd like to do a mild upgrade on the old one to improve its EVE performance.
At present its key stats are:
1.2 ghz processor
32mb graphics card
512 RAM
Would it be useful or possible to upgrade the graphics card, or would it be the processor holding it back?
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Bombcrater
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Posted - 2005.12.28 20:59:00 -
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More information, please. What kind of processor and graphics card are they?
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Pac ofGreenHalo
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Posted - 2005.12.29 18:42:00 -
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Edited by: Pac ofGreenHalo on 29/12/2005 18:42:41
If you have 1 Harddrive and 1 cd-rom (your specs show a 3 year old computer) then you need to look inside and look if you have a free PCI slot and or a free AGP slot. Then next to the slot on your motherboard there will be a number. If there is no number asume it is a 2.0 slot. The AGP slot will be green the PCI slot would be white. They are card slots so they are located in the case to the rear.
Now look at your powersupply if you have 350 w powersupply then you can get any card possible.
If you have only PCI slots you will pay alot for a 128 mb card. If you have a AGP slot you will find a cheap 128mb card for 50 dollars. Hope this helps you.
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Trade Mule
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Posted - 2005.12.30 15:47:00 -
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Bump and expansion.
It's a 1.2 ghz AMD Athalon Processor.
It's 512 mb SD RAM.
Graphics Card is Nvidia GeForce 2 MX.
I'll check the card layout later. My main question was whether (since the RAM is ok) upgrading the graphics card would do much or whether I would really need to upgrade the processor as well.
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DragonSquid
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Posted - 2005.12.30 18:55:00 -
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I do not think the processor would be holding it back.
The amount of ram seems fine.
I would upgrade the video card to a 128meg. I have a 64meg card with the same set up as u have and its just not enought.
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Callistus
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Posted - 2005.12.30 19:02:00 -
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Actually EVE is very cpu intensive so upgarding the cpu would be your best bet, rather than the graphics card. However, you would still be limited by the card and could really do with upgrading that too. Something cheap like a 9600pro would be fine for running EVE at a decent res if you have a better processor.
Also what GreenHalo said about slots on the motherboard is wrong, the colour depends entirely on the manufacturer. And you will have an agp slot because the MX is an agp card.
Coreli Corporation Mainframe
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Bombcrater
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Posted - 2005.12.30 20:25:00 -
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Replace the graphics card. Eve has a deserved reputation as being very CPU-intensive, but a bad enough graphics card will still cripple it regardless of what CPU you have. And the GF2MX is bad enough.
I ran Eve on my spare PC with a GF2MX for a while and it was a slow, jerky mess. When I replaced the GF2 with a spare Radeon 9000 the game was massively faster.
Basically any modern gfx card will really improve your frame rates.
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Shinar
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Posted - 2005.12.31 05:16:00 -
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I would upgrade your video card 1st.
32mb does not really cut it with modern games (even MMO's)
I would personally get one with at least 128mb on it. (I use a Radeon 9800 and have no issues)
The CPU should be fine for now, but that would be the 2nd thing I upgrade.
To be honest 1.2 is more then what most people use.
For example, I am running:
Eve in windowed mode
winamp
trillian
and surfing the web
I am using less then 50% of my CPU and I have a 1.6 ghz AMD.
My video card takes alot of strain off my CPU.
Feel free to contact me in game if you have any questions.
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Andreis
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Posted - 2006.01.01 12:39:00 -
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I concur with the video card upgrade.
My system specs are :
Athlon xp 2500+ @ 1.83Ghz
256mb Ultra ddr400 ram
Seagate 80Gb HDD 7200rpm
GeForce MX4000 128Mb
I currently run Eve near flawlessly on this and my other machine that has the exact same specs except the CPU is only 800mhz.
Regardless of wether the game is cpu intensive or not the video card has a much greater impact on the overall speed of any graphics intense game and aside from that the memory bandwidth on your ram and HDD are gonna make the next highest impact as on most older machines an 800mhz cpu can still process more data than the memory bandwidth allows through the ram.
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