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I have been playing PR for many years and I am thinking its time to do some upgrading on the old gaming PC and I wanted some opinions...PR1.0 REALLY taxes my system and its pretty old. I am running a AMD 6000, ASUS M2NSLI deluxe MB and a GEforce 7950 GT. All I do on this PC is play PR and its been fine till 1.0.

I think the Graphics card will be first, whats everyone using??

An old GeForce GTS250, running everything on max.

i have one of them GTS250s in one of my systems adn yeah, it takes full settings while still delivering 100ish FPS most of the time

mockingbird0901 wrote:An old GeForce GTS250, running everything on max.

old GTS 250, that is like 3 years newer than my 7950, I really think I need an upgrade..I am looking at the GTX 650, its a middle of the road card but should run PR 10X better than my 7950

yeah it will run it more than great. but do check the power supply so its adequate.

GeForce GTX 465, runs all on high

Doc.Pock wrote:yeah it will run it more than great. but do check the power supply so its adequate.

^Yes... I made the mistake of purchasing badass graffix card without checking my power supply first. Needless to say, I was right back up at my computer shop and $100 poorer. Well worth it though.

it also depends on your CPU and mobo. if they arent that good it might be no use, getting a better card, just to be bottlenecked on the CPU part or even worse, the PCIe bridge

can you post full spec?

You mean the AMD Athlon X2 6000+ ?
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ - ADX6000IAA6CZ (ADX6000CZBOX)

You're getting near end of life for that machine as a gaming machine, still plenty good for general usage.

For PR1.0 to be safe,
at a minimum, for ATI/AMD ... you'll need a Radeon HD 6770 to max out settings,
at a minimum, for NVidia ... you'll need a GTX 460 1GB to max out settings,

note that ATI/AMD GPUs use less watts to deliver similar graphics performance, if you're PSU is not giving you that much headroom, I'd suggest leaning toward the AMD?ATI GPUs.

Yes I am using the X2 6000+, I knew it was near the end for this machine a year ago. I am good on the PSU I have a 750 Watt Antec I just added. I guess I better just bite the bullet and replace the MB, video and processor......thanks for all the responses!!

Yeah id do that. Do you have any set budget to which to find the components?