Is it time for an upgrade?
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The desktop machine I’m using right now has been nicknamed Frankenstein because I built it out of pieces and parts, most of which I bought on ebay, some of which, however, were salvaged from computers that had quit working. It originally had an S3 Verge video card but, when I discovered that video card wouldn’t run things like Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004, I went back to ebay and found an ATI Rage Xpert 2000 for sale and snatched it up.
It has done everything I need, but it keeps occurring to me that this video card is now ten years old. That’s ancient in computer terms. On the one hand I keep thinking that something like a GeForce GT 220 Graphics Card would be able to handle all the demands of today’s software, bu on the other hand, something else in my head keeps saying, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.
My current video card has something like 32 megabytes of memory. I can’t help but wonder how much of an improvement in system performance I’d see if I had a full gigabyte of video memory. Of course I also can’t help but wonder if the rest of the system is even up-to-date enough to handle such a video card.
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nice info..i have an old computer machine ..maybe its timefor me to upgrade..thanks for sharing
hrm.. I have to agree with not fixing stuff that isn’t broken but at the same time I’m way more than ready to build a new system… soon as about $600 “extra” materializes in my wallet