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It'll definitely need a new vga card to get any kind of gameplay out of it.
Then the cpu is slow, so out of your listed games only FFX and FF12 may run decently.
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What particular unit of video card should I get?
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It's probably just Cool'n'Quiet that slowed down the cpu to 1GHz at the moment, generally Athlon X2 5200+ is 2.6 or 2.7GHz for am2 socket. Could be enough to play some games but graphics is definitely too weak. Change it for any mid-range model will be ok. For some change you could make this pc pretty fast. Sometimes Athlon II works even on am2 mainboards, add some ram to have 2gb and get normal graphics card.
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I also recommend a complete new PC...Intel is not really necessary, only if you have more money. An AM3 combo is absolutely fine too and much cheaper.
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It's the same price as a faster Intel based machine. Always been this way.
You DO get more cores for your money with AMD though, so if you need that..
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07-05-2010, 06:45 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-05-2010, 06:46 AM by SamSoNight.)
The most expensive AMD Dual-Core (Phenom II X2 555 BE 2x3,2GHz) is better than the cheapest Intel Dual Core (Pentium G6950) and costs roughly the same (around 100$). The Phenom II outperforms the G6950 in both PC games and applications with standard clock. Both are nice overclockers as well and the Phenom even has an open multiplier. Since I think that the OP has a very low budget, if any, to upgrade, I'd even recommend an Athlon II. No current Intel CPU matches the price/performance of an Athlon II.
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http://www.tomshardware.de/phenom-II-x2-...549-9.html (since you are from Germany, you understand this
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