My Mates up-grade

[Ken Toole]

My work-mate got to know I Build the odd P.C. now and then, so he wants my advice on up-grading his son,s HP Pavilion 7934 PC so he can play "War craft" type games on it?
The specs of the Pavilion are:-
cpu P4 1.5 ghz,
256 2X 128 pc133 ram,
Geforce 2 100/200Gpu,
not a clue what the Agp slot bus speed is but here my suggestion,
Geforce 7600GT agp,
2X 512 Pc 133 168pin SDRAM,
and an Xilence 420W gaming Psu.
I'd be greatfull for any comments.

PS the total up-grade cost comes to £111.28 "worth the effort??"

[PeterStoba]

Better CPU?

[Lynx]

Yeh better cpu is right behind better gfx, and to be honest i would spend the £100 on a X1950 agp, they are the best agp card you can get. Add a E2160 oc to 2.4 ghz without any trouble, and that would be a far better system, if the bios upgrades to c2ds of course.

[mac124]

Imho its not worth throwing good money at that pc, im not even sure the gfx card will work in that machine as its that old, agp changed from 3v to 1.5v and a gforce2 is an OLD card.

Spend a bit more and get the buget system i specced up here http://www.aria.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=3081 if you don't need a monitor then thats £100 off the price.