I play The Sims 2 and I should be receiving a computer next week. I can't wait to test it. I was wondering if it will play The Sims 2 with no slowdown. I was also wondering if I should have gotten more RAM instead of an extra video card. I'm not sure which would do better for graphics. I'm going to have to stick with one of my old VGA monitors, I'm not sure how a monitor would affect things. So how well can these specs run TS2? I previously had a gaming laptop with an ATI Radeon X600 video card w/128MB, 1GB RAM, 3GHz processor w/HT and it ran TS2 pretty well, but I sold it. It ran so hot that it would burn my hands. LOL. Here's the pc I'm waiting to receive:
420watts power supply Asus A8N SLI motherboard
1 GB Corsair SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) (upgradeable to 4GB)
AMD Athlon 64 4200+ X2 Dual Core 2.2Ghz Processor with 1GHz FSB.
160 GB Western Digital Caviar 7200 rpm Hard Drive with Serial ATA 2 3.0GB
LITE-ON Black 16xDVD drive.
2 Leadtek Geforce 6800GT 256MB x16 PCI Express video cards in SLI
What should my next upgrade be: a hard drive run in RAID mode or 1GB more RAM?
420watts power supply Asus A8N SLI motherboard
1 GB Corsair SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) (upgradeable to 4GB)
AMD Athlon 64 4200+ X2 Dual Core 2.2Ghz Processor with 1GHz FSB.
160 GB Western Digital Caviar 7200 rpm Hard Drive with Serial ATA 2 3.0GB
LITE-ON Black 16xDVD drive.
2 Leadtek Geforce 6800GT 256MB x16 PCI Express video cards in SLI
What should my next upgrade be: a hard drive run in RAID mode or 1GB more RAM?