Factory made PCs almost without fail have poorly rated and performing PSUs. If you are upgrading to a card more than 100.00 I'd suggest a new Power Supply Unit. This article will be revised in a week or so, but should give you a start and a good idea of the kind of price ranges and performance you will be looking at. If you can afford 200.00, this is where the sweet spot is for price and performance.īest cards for your money. Here's an excerpt from a previous post about the same thing your faced with.Įxpect to upgrade your PC with a graphics card in the 140.00 range for a decent graphics card. It's also a good idea to turn down the effects on windows like shadows on icons, ghost image of item when dragging and dropping etc.ĭepending on the games you want to play. One thing I haven't covered here is turning off Windows indexing, disabling system restore and Hibernation, and upping the size of the page file. Some will recommend more, but I have seen PCs this age run quite nicely as long as you are not expecting to run multiple programs and multiple instances of software. A bump up to 4 GB of RAM would be a good idea also. The processor is not bad, and if it was capable of running Crysis, (and it was) it is capable of running modern games but not without a decent video card. The link below to a previous post of mine of this will help you there.

Optimizing the OS will only do so much although it's a very good idea if you have not cleaned out the unused programs, start-up sand unnecessary running processes.

Fully optimize pc for gaming